Edward Archer (physician)

Edward Archer (1718–1789) was an English physician, closely associated with the practice of inoculation against smallpox.

Archer was born in Southwark, studying medicine in Edinburgh and afterwards in Leyden, where he graduated M.D.

He ended his life 28 March 1789, dying within the walls of the Hospital where he had worked for 42 years, as he wished.

He wrote a note on smallpox for the Journal Britannique for 1755, and an introductory epistle for An Account of Inoculation, presented to the Royal Commissioners of Health in Sweden, by David Schultz, M.D., who attended the Small-pox Hospital in London near a twelvemonth (1758), translated from the Swedish original by Schultz.

[1] David Schultz von Schultzenheim was a Prussian who promoted inoculation in Sweden.