... idea was to expose the bacilli in the skin to the destroying effect of the light, thus removing the cause of disease. For small-pox he excluded the 'chemical rays of light by the use of red curtains and red blinds. This avoided the fever caused by the rays ...

... wig ; gilt mount, on which is inscribed, Baron Thomas Dimsdale, M.D., F. 8.5., 1712-1800. A celebrated inoculator for the smallpox. Born in Essex, and studied in St. ~~~ I 1 401 , „ 1 1l l Ili 1 I. 1,1.1 I - ,1 , , ...

... Bloonttleld•street, Moor. fields ; the Hospital for Women, Sobtregaare ; the British Home for Incurables, Clapham-rice; the Small-pox Hospital, Whittington • place, Upper Holloway; the Loudon Hospital, Ilitumersenith ; the University College Hospital, Gower ...

... country, and possibly were carrying about infectious diseases with them. It was not long since that • tramp afflicted with smallpox passed right through the country and put up in the casual ward at throe workhouses. Thus, it was desirable to give special ...

... for Gls* China, etc. 6d. and le. post free. In consequence of a Johannesburg Malay having been found to be suffering front small-pox, medical offers and sanitary inspectors visited the Malay location, bi:t discovered no further case. Having purchased a fire ...

... large diminution in the amount spent by the Metropolitan Asylums lioezd, owing to the greet decline in thenumber of fever and smallpox patents received Into the hoepitals under the Bo srd's iurisdiction. The total decrease per rent. in the year's expenditure ...

... attaetted by small-pox, and died of the disease. On the medical gentleman who attended him making enquiries as to the ant, lie disoovere4 that it had been made in a urns whore the poor working teaor had one of his children afflicted with small-pox. In this ...

... been re-vaccinated in the infected houses or in the town generally. Smallpox was in fanner times endemic in Warrington. and 120 years ago the town was the scene of an outbreak of smallpox the like of which has not been known in modem times. The valuable ...

... showing the extent to which the disease prevailed in different districts. It is rendered evident by the report that the Small-pox Hospital itself, on account of being situated in a crowded neighbourhood, acted as a sort of centre of the epidemic, as the ...

... which deeply concern the wellbeing of the community. Twenty years ago, that is previous to and for some years after the great smallpox epidemic which killed 44,000 inhabitants of these islands (viccination being all but universal at that time), the opposition ...

... compliment or an insult to the Luai- Wien statesman. TRADING UPON &CEREAL—It seems to be the fashion in Paris to talk of small-pox as the reigning epidemic, though the statistics of the public, health do not show any reason for alarm. However that may ...

... 92,620. Third week of October, 1886, indoor, 54,230 ; outdoor, 35,276 total, 89,506. (Excluding patients in the fever and smallpox hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylum District; the number of these patients on the last day of the week was returned as 1451 ...