Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1897 — Doctor's Handsome Fee. [ARTICLE]

Doctor's Handsome Fee.

Probably no greater doctor’s fee is on record than that paid by Empress Catherine to Thomas Dlmsdale, ancestor to the present Baron Dlmsdale of England. For innoculatlng the Russian Empress and her son Paul against smallpox In 1768 he received $50,000 as a fee, SIO,OOO for expenses and an annuity of $2,500, while in addition to all this he was granted the t!tle of baron. This was Just thirty years before Jenner’s discovery of vaccination, for which Parliament granted him $150,000 altogether.