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Paper, 'The way of proceeding in the small pox inoculated in New England' by Henry Newman

Reference number: CLP/14ii/11

Date: 1722

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Neuman describes the progress of the smallpox disease in those that have been deliberately infected by inoculation and claims that once recovered they are in better health than before, including the curing of non smallpox symptoms such as ulcers and aiding recovery after child birth: 'people have upon this transplantation grown harty and got rid of their former Maladies'.

Subject: Medicine / Virology / Immunology / Communicable diseases

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The way of proceeding in the small pox inoculated in New England'

Read to the Royal Society on 12 April 1722

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CLP/14ii/11
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1722
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'The way of proceeding in the small pox inoculated in New England' by Henry Newman, 1722, CLP/14ii/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14ii_11/paper-the-way-of-proceeding-in-the-small-pox-inoculated-in-new-england-by-henry-newman, accessed on 11 July 2025

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