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Francis Home FRSE FRCPE (17 November 1719 in Eccles, Berwickshire – 15 February 1813) was a Scottish physician, and the first Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Edinburgh,[1] known to make the first attempt to vaccinate against measles, in 1758.[2][3] In 1783 he was one of the founders of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[4]
- ^ Home, W. E. Francis Home (1719–1813), First Professor of Materia Medica in Edinburgh. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 21.6 (1928): 1013.
- ^ Waterston, Charles D.; Macmillan Shearer, A. (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002: Biographical Index (PDF). Vol. I. Edinburgh: Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
- ^ Enders, J. F. (December 1961 – February 1962). "Vaccination against measles: Francis Home redivivus". Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. 34 (3–4). Yale University: 239–60. PMC 2605051. PMID 13890171.
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 6 November 2016.