Born 24 Jun 1654; died 17 Sep 1734 at age 80.
#English #physician who was a good clinical observer and a pioneer in recognizing the specificness in #infection and #immunity.
His practice was in Sevenoaks, Kent. He collected the “best and neatest medicines,” and published a thousand such prescriptions in his #Pharmacopoiea, which appeared in at least 12 editions.
Through a keen interest reading about medical progress, he remained well-informed. Fuller was an early advocate of protective #inoculation against #smallpox. His published list of qualifications for nurses may have been the first of its kind by an English physician. Long before #microbic investigations by such as #Pasteur, Fuller recognized diseases like #measles or smallpox were “produced by its proper and peculiar Species of Virus” (meaning #venom).
In #Gnomologia he collected 6496 adagies and proverbs.
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