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unintentionally, that those who contracted the
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disease would then spread it to others around them.
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And to prevent that, smallpox inoculation
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hospitals-- such as one in London,
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that opened in 1746-- were set up to care for the
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patients who'd been inoculated, and to quarantine them,
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so that they were no longer a risk to others.
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But nevertheless, there was a spirited debate
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over the whole issue of whether,
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on balance, inoculation saved
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many more lives than it killed.
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Well, that brings us to this figure,