SCOT, JOHN [SSNE 5137]
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On 3 April 1671 John Scot, a barber, supplied a birth-brieve and was made a citizen of Cracow. He paid nothing as he was recognised for his diligence on behalf of those suffering from the plague. Indeed, Scot discovered symptoms of the disease on the basis of post-mortem examinations and managed to localise the spread of the infection. The surgeons also accepted him as a member of their guild. Bieganska gives the date of the plague as between 1677-1679, but the same information relating to his status.A.F. Steuart, Papers Relating to the Scots in Poland 1576-1793, Edinburgh, 1915, p.55; Lib. Jur. Civ. Crac. Cath. Tert. Ord. 1678; A. Bieganska, The Learned Scots in Poland (From the Mid-Sixteenth to the close of the Eighteenth Century) in 'Canadian Slavonic Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 1, March 2001, p.16.
Service record
- POLAND-LITHUANIA, CRACOW
- Arrived 1671-04-03
- Departed 1679-12-31
- Capacity BARBER, SURGEON, MEDICAL DOCTOR, BURGESS, purpose MEDICAL DOCTOR, MEDICNE, CIVIC