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Extract of a letter, from Thomas Nettleton to James Jurin, dated at Halifax

Reference number: EL/N1/94

Date: 16 December 1722

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Concerning inoculation with smallpox and the numbers of those who have died in the Yorkshire area due to smallpox
Read to the Royal Society on 20 December 1722

Reference number
EL/N1/94
Earliest possible date
16 December 1722
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Thomas Nettleton

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Thomas Nettleton, Extract of a letter, from Thomas Nettleton to James Jurin, dated at Halifax, 16 December 1722, EL/N1/94, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_n1_94/extract-of-a-letter-from-thomas-nettleton-to-james-jurin-dated-at-halifax, accessed on 18 September 2024

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