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... England ( No. 35 ) ; by an- other , as about one in every 100 in Lon . don ( No. 38 ) ; while the lofs in the.na- tural Imall pox is probably not less than one in fix ( No. 37 ) ; nor ought it to be overlooked , that mistakes have been ...
... England ( No. 35 ) ; by an- other , as about one in every 100 in Lon . don ( No. 38 ) ; while the lofs in the.na- tural Imall pox is probably not less than one in fix ( No. 37 ) ; nor ought it to be overlooked , that mistakes have been ...
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... England ; has received accounts of the progrefs of vaccine - inoculation from New York and Philadelphia ; from Paris , Mal- ta , Italy , and Germany ; from all which parts its excellence is confirmed , and it is now likewife introduced ...
... England ; has received accounts of the progrefs of vaccine - inoculation from New York and Philadelphia ; from Paris , Mal- ta , Italy , and Germany ; from all which parts its excellence is confirmed , and it is now likewife introduced ...
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... England , and they generally indulged in drinking new wine ; this diet , added to the ex- ceffes which foldiers ufually commit , put the cow - pox to a fevere trial , especially when it is further confidered that they , whilst under ...
... England , and they generally indulged in drinking new wine ; this diet , added to the ex- ceffes which foldiers ufually commit , put the cow - pox to a fevere trial , especially when it is further confidered that they , whilst under ...
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... England about the year 1660 , and refided in that country till his death . He was one of the first Members of the Royal Society . That celebrated mathematician was faid to have been fo weak , as to believe in judicial aftro- logy ...
... England about the year 1660 , and refided in that country till his death . He was one of the first Members of the Royal Society . That celebrated mathematician was faid to have been fo weak , as to believe in judicial aftro- logy ...
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... England , he claimed the invention ex- clufively , which drew forth fome very difagreeable remarks upon the prior rights of Newton . In 1708 , Keill publifhed , in the Philofophical Tranfactions , a paper in which he expressly affirmed ...
... England , he claimed the invention ex- clufively , which drew forth fome very difagreeable remarks upon the prior rights of Newton . In 1708 , Keill publifhed , in the Philofophical Tranfactions , a paper in which he expressly affirmed ...
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