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THE SMALL-POX IN SHEEP

... THE SMALL-POX IN SHEEP. (FROM THl TIMES.) We do not thinknit worth iaquiring, except for- our gui(lance hereafter, into the circumstances in which this aiurrain may have first originated. It seems to be ascertained that the disorder itself is neither ...

Published: Thursday 11 September 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 851 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

IS THE CATTLE PLAGUE SMALL-POX?

... of our first authorities on the subject of small-pox and vaccination, and who is one of the Cattle Plague Commissioners, was, we believe, early impressed with the resemblance of the eruption to that of small-pox, and had laid this view before his medical ...

Published: Thursday 11 January 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 587 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

NEW ANTIDOTE TO EPIDEMIC SMALLPOX

... ANTIDOTE TO EPIDEMIC SMALL. POX. (FROM THE DAILY NEWS.) It is an accepted article of faith among medical men that small-pox alone can beget small-pox; that it cannot arise spontaneously, or, in other words, that it can never be the result of morbific agencies ...

Published: Saturday 06 September 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1329 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

A SPECIFIC AGAINST SMALL-POX

... neavly illiol to the famiily of Papa- verac~ax, aml is a lilliiitered as follows :-AVlIeii a person is thre:tteiie I ?? small-pox, the erup- tion not having yet applieared, a large glassful of the, infusion is t:,kon, the effect of which is to hasten ...

Published: Monday 21 April 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 543 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

COW POX

... liable to be infeied with SMALL-POX, to embrace the op- portunity offered for obtaining a certain defence, a. _ainft that loathfome difeafe, by having their children Maculated for COW-POX; and this thearather, as the SMALL-POX are at. this time prevalent ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1801
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 914 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

HEALTH OF THE CITY

... the prevalence of the zymotic diseases:- StGeo. StAnd. Canon. StGlles'. Newin' Total. Fever, 2 1 1 4 Diphtheria, 2 2 - 4 Small-pox, - - - - Scarlet Fever, - Measles, - 3 3 Hooping-cough - -. Brysipelas, Total, 2 2 6 0 1 11 Of the cases of fever, only 1 ...

Published: Wednesday 29 July 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 408 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS

... we must go back several centuries, and become ac- quainted with the fearful ravages small-pox eomin mitted. In the sixteenth century it is baeu- lated that smallpox cause.d a tenthI of the whole r deaths that happened in Europe; in America, about' the ...

Published: Tuesday 01 February 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1500 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

GEORGE HERIOT'S HOSPITAL

... absent-17 frons small-pox, 8 on account of smallpox in the house, and 85 from other causes. At Borthwick's Close school-244 pre- sent, of when 208 vaccinated, IS imperfect, and IS not vaccinated ; 28 absent, of whom 2 from small-pox, 5 from small-pox in the house ...

Published: Friday 09 January 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3741 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE WRECKS OF 1858

... ner called attention to the frightful increase of small-pox as evidenced by the -fact tbatt the London Small-pox Hospital was so erw~ded as to be unable to receive any more.patients. . Al- though small-pox was a preventable disease throngh the blessings ...

Published: Wednesday 19 October 1859
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 713 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

ROYAL INFIRMARY

... clerk of the Infirmary for their services. Dr At GXANDUR WOOD referred to a statement in the report regarding the spread of small-pox in the city, and expressed a hope that the Vae- cination Act would not be extended to Scotland. Mr MACrAalANE' said that ...

Published: Tuesday 17 January 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 535 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

HEALTH OF THE CITY

... prevalence of .the Zymotic diseases: St Geo. St And. Canon. St Cies. Newin. Total. Fever, -- 1 Z 1 Diphtheria, I. 1 1 1 1 4' Small-pox, Scarlet Fever, I 1 1 ?? Measles, 2 1 3 Hoopiing-cough - ; Erysipelas, ?? Total, '2 2 4. 2 1 1 11'' .the mortality from' ...

Published: Wednesday 05 August 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 436 | Page: 3 | Tags: News