Template:Did you know nominations/Johnnie Notions

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 00:11, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Johnnie Notions

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• ... that Shetlander Johnnie Notions, a self-taught physician with no formal medical background, developed and administered an inoculation for smallpox that successfully immunised thousands of patients years before the invention of Edward Jenner's vaccine? Source: "Inoculation is successfully practised, even by the common people; but in particular by a person, whose name is John Williamson, who, from his various attainments, and superior talents, is called Johnny Notions, among his neighbours. Unassisted by education, and unfettered by the rules of art, he stands unrivalled in this business. Several thousands have been inoculated by him, and he has not lost a single patient." [1]
  • ALT0b: ... that Shetlander Johnnie Notions, a physician with no formal medical background, developed a smallpox inoculation that successfully immunised thousands of patients before Edward Jenner's vaccine? Source: "Inoculation is successfully practised, even by the common people; but in particular by a person, whose name is John Williamson, who, from his various attainments, and superior talents, is called Johnny Notions, among his neighbours. Unassisted by education, and unfettered by the rules of art, he stands unrivalled in this business. Several thousands have been inoculated by him, and he has not lost a single patient." [2]
  • ALT1: ... that Shetlander Johnnie Notions, developer of an inoculation for smallpox that successfully immunised thousands of patients years before the invention of Edward Jenner's vaccine, is reputed not to have lost a single patient through its administration? Source: "Inoculation is successfully practised, even by the common people; but in particular by a person, whose name is John Williamson, who, from his various attainments, and superior talents, is called Johnny Notions, among his neighbours. Unassisted by education, and unfettered by the rules of art, he stands unrivalled in this business. Several thousands have been inoculated by him, and he has not lost a single patient." [3]
    • ALT1b: ... that Shetlander Johnnie Notions, developer of a smallpox inoculation that successfully immunised thousands of patients before Edward Jenner's vaccine, is reputed not to have lost a single patient? Source: "Inoculation is successfully practised, even by the common people; but in particular by a person, whose name is John Williamson, who, from his various attainments, and superior talents, is called Johnny Notions, among his neighbours. Unassisted by education, and unfettered by the rules of art, he stands unrivalled in this business. Several thousands have been inoculated by him, and he has not lost a single patient." [4]
    • ALT1c: ... that Shetlander Johnnie Notions, developer of a smallpox inoculation that immunised thousands of patients before the discovery of Edward Jenner's vaccine, is reputed not to have lost a single patient? Source: "Inoculation is successfully practised, even by the common people; but in particular by a person, whose name is John Williamson, who, from his various attainments, and superior talents, is called Johnny Notions, among his neighbours. Unassisted by education, and unfettered by the rules of art, he stands unrivalled in this business. Several thousands have been inoculated by him, and he has not lost a single patient." [5]

• Comment: The source previously listed was published in 1792, while Edward Jenner's vaccine was discovered in 1796.[6]

Created by Griceylipper (talk). Self-nominated at 19:03, 24 November 2019 (UTC).

• @Griceylipper: This interesting and comprehensive article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright or plagiarism issues. However, both hooks are too long (251 characters as against a permitted 200), so can you suggest something shorter. No QPQ is needed here as this is the fourth DYK. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:09, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

• Cwmhiraeth Thanks for the review - I have suggested a couple of condensed hooks, see what you think. Griceylipper (talk) 12:54, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

• @Griceylipper: I'm not too keen on "before Edward Jenner's vaccine", how about ALT0c? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:50, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

• • ALT0c: ... that Shetlander Johnnie Notions, a physician with no formal medical background, developed a smallpox inoculation that successfully immunised thousands of people before Jenner's vaccine was available?

• Cwmhiraeth I'm quite happy with ALT0c, I have also proposed ALT1c above, how about that instead? Griceylipper (talk) 18:33, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

• Thank you. Approving ALT0c and ALT1c. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:51, 5 December 2019 (UTC)