... SMALLPOX ON AN IRONCLAD. THREE DEATHS. A letter from a naval correspondent at Malta states that there has been a serious outbreak of small-pox on board her Majesty's ship Rupert, belonging to the Mediterranean Fleet, and that three deaths from the disease ...

... powers of obser- vation and inference on a momentous question of hygiene. In it he proposed to demonstrate that just as small-pox throws out poison through the pustules of the skin, so typhoid fever throws oat its poison through the characteristic ulcerations ...