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I would only . . . leave to remark, that it appears from these Accounts, that this last Year, in this Part of the Kingdom, almost nineteen out of every hundred, or near one fifth of those, who have had the natural Small Pox, have died; whereas out of sixty one which have been inoculated hereabouts,
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Part of a letter from Dr. Nettleton, physician at Halifax, to Dr. Jurin, R. S. Sec concerning the inoculation of the small pox, and the mortality of that distemper in the natural way
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between those who had received the smallpox inoculation and those who had not. It was his letter to
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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present
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that motivated Jurin himself to gather further data and perform his own analysis.
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Little is known of Nettleton other than that he was a physician in
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who carried out some of the earliest systematic programmes of
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
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Index

English
physician
smallpox
inoculation
statistical
Halifax
Yorkshire
mortality
James Jurin
Porter, R.
ISBN
0-00-215173-1
"Biographical notes"
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
the original
"Quantitative evidence for judgments on the efficacy of inoculation for the prevention of smallpox: England and New England in the 1700s"
doi
10.1177/014107680609900521
PMC
1457746
PMID
16672762
the original
Part of a letter from Dr. Nettleton, physician at Halifax, to Dr. Jurin, R. S. Sec concerning the inoculation of the small pox, and the mortality of that distemper in the natural way
Categories
1683 births
1742 deaths
People from Halifax, West Yorkshire
18th-century English medical doctors
British public health doctors

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