RECORD VACCINATION FEE
When Catherine the Great was vaccinated she paid the English doctor who vaccinated her £IO,OOO. in addition to £2,000 a. year for .ifo and a variety of most costly gifts with which he returned home laden. Since smallpox was raging in Russia, the Empress sent to England for a certain Dr. Sutton to go there to vaccinate her. He was rather old and refused, but a contemporary. Dr. Dimsdale, was appointed and accepted.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 17 January 1931, Page 2
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