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On 29 May 1777 Mudge was elected a Fellow of the Royal
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Mudge was married three times, and had ten children. By Mary
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Several invitations were made to Mudge to try his fortunes in London. But he preferred to remain at
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Inoculated Small Pox, or an Attempt towards an Investigation of the real Causes which render the Small Pox by Inoculation so much more mild and safe then the same Disease when produced by the ordinary means of
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In 1778 he published ‘A Radical and
Expeditious Cure for recent Catarrhous Cough,’ with a drawing of a remedial inhaler, which obtained wide acceptance. He wrote some further small medical treatises.
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and amateur creator of telescope mirrors. He won the
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