Citation | Charles de Mertens MD Knight of the Holy Empire, membre [sic] of the Royal Society of Medicine of Paris and of the Electoral Academie of Sciences of Erfurt, since many years one of the first Practitioners at Vienna; being desirous of becoming a fellow of the Royal Society of London on the Foreign List; We, whose names are underwritten, declare that the same Gentleman is very advantageously known in the Republic of Letters by several very usefull publications, among which are the following Observationes medicae de febribus putridis, de, peste, nonullis alus morbis. Vienna 1778 Observationes medicae. Tom. 2. Vienna 1783 Histoire de la Peste qui a regne a Moscou en 1771 Observations sur le scorbut. Philosoph. Transact. volum 68th Part II and that his personal qualifications and well establish'd reputation, as well as his usefull works, make him every way deserving of the honour of being a fellow of the Royal Society |