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Paper, 'Of jail-fever in Newgate and of the men who died after working on the ventilator there' by John Pringle

Reference number: L&P/2/407

Date: 25 January 1753

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of several persons seized with the goal-fever, working in Newgate; and of the manner, in which the infection was communicated to one intire family; by John Pringle, M. D. F. R. S'

Read 1 February 1753

Reference number
L&P/2/407
Earliest possible date
25 January 1753
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Ink on paper
Page extent
10 pages
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Manuscript

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John Pringle

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John Pringle, Paper, 'Of jail-fever in Newgate and of the men who died after working on the ventilator there' by John Pringle, 25 January 1753, L&P/2/407, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_407/paper-of-jail-fever-in-newgate-and-of-the-men-who-died-after-working-on-the-ventilator-there-by-john-pringle, accessed on 09 May 2026

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