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SMALLPOX

... safed by Providence to prevent the ravages of smallpox. Before Jenner's time the terrible ma- lady caused havoc amongst all classes of people. Disfigurement, blindness, and death were the effects of smallpox, and its inroads baffled all medical skill. It ...

THE SMALLPOX IN LONDON

... THE SMALLPOX IN LONDON. The fatal cases of smallpox in London, which had been 227, 213, 194, 185, and 205 in the five previous weeks, declined again to 192 in the week ending last Saturday. In seven permanent and temporary hospitals for this disease, ...

THE SMALLPOX AT HOME

... THE SMALLPOX AT HOME. EXTRAORDINARY vigilance is exercised at the ports of the kingdom, lest cases of the epidemic should be imported from the capital or elsewhere. Indeed this is the only means by which the insi- dious and horrible malady can be cabined ...

THE SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC

... THE SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC. The annual death-rate last week from smallpox was equal to 4 per 1,000 in London, 6 in Liverpool, Sin Newcastle, and 6 in Sunderland. The epidemic shewed an increased fatality in Newcastle and Sunderland, but had slightly declined ...

SMALL-POX IN SHEEP

... Weyhill fair ? DICK.—Ees, I be told as how the ship ha' got The small-pox, but I spose they manes the rot. DAN.—Rot ? Yaa They're rottun fast enough, no doubt, But their disaise is small-pox, out and out. DICE.—Small-pox in ship ? That's zummut strange ...

SMALLPOX ABOUT CARDIFF

... SMALLPOX ABOUT CARDIFF. THE very name of this loathsome disease is enough to cause a shudder through the whole body-politic, and awaken emotions of the most disagreeable kind. But facts are stubborn things, and how- ever abhorrent to public feeling must ...

SMALLPOX FROM ABROAD,

... SMALLPOX FROM ABROAD, Smallpox has broken out at Coventry. Becently, many cycling hands had gone out to Lisbon to work in a factory there. One man returned, and be and his wife are now in tho smallpox hospital. The medical officer proposed to vaccinate ...