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Description: | Set of steel lancets, set into horn handles, with a brass container; Used by the Reverend Alexander John Forsyth LLD (1768-1843) for vaccinations against smallpox in the parish of Belhelvie
"Lancets used by Forsyth when introducing vaccination into Belhelvie."
Author: Inglis,Jim & Curtis,Neil Date: 1990 Purpose: Encyclopaedia of the North-East
"The Reverend Alexander John Forsyth, LLD, was born on 28th December 1768 at Belhelvie, NE Scotland. He was the son of the minister of Belhelvie and he held the charge there himself between 1790 and 1843. He was a man of many interests and achievements. He is credited with establishing a savings bank, and with patenting a percussion lock for fire arms which was adopted 30 years later by the British army and which involved him in producing detonating powder for his experiments. He also introduced vaccination for smallpox, a very serious and widespread disease, into NE Scotland, starting with Belhelvie parish. The photograph shows a powder flask in black horn used by Forsyth to measure his detonating powder and below, the set of steel lancets he used for vaccinations at Belhelvie."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN
Field collector: Reid, Robert, W. Prof. | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1768-1843 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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