... fully recover in day or (wo. Now, if you had had smallpox—’ The milkmaid interrupted by saying, I can't have smallpox—l have had cowpox.’ Jenner was startled. What was the connection between cowpox and smallpox? He wondered. He visited the villages and found ...

... SMALLPOX. The ravages of small-pox are still considerable enough to cause us some uneasiness. In London the epidemic appears to be spreading. The number of new cases in the week ending on Saturday last was 588, being an increase of cases over the previous ...

... SMALLPOX VACCINATION Reporting on vaccination against smallpox in the county, Dr G. M. Fyfe, County M.0.H., said the birthrate in the county was in the neighbourhood of 4000 a year, but during 1949 and 1950 only 1200 children were vaccinated. If any trouble ...

... The Small-Pox at Guardbridge. While it is satisfactory to learn that the progress of the small-pox which broke out at Guardbridge some weeks ago and spread with fatal effect to Leuchars, Balmullo, and Strathkinness, has been so far arrested as to allay ...

... THE SMALL-POX IN SHEEP. A public meeting was held on Thursday, at the Town Hall, Devizes, which was numerously attended by flockmasters and agriculturists connected with the district, together with a large number of inhabitants of Devizes and the nei ...

... the small-pox of humanity. The following facts make very sceptical that point:—ln the year 1853, a near relative of mine purchased Spanish sheep in Smithfield market; the seller would not warrant them free from infection, the so-termed small-pox having ...

... PREVENTION OF SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC. The CLERK read a coininuuicattun from the Board of Supervision calling toe serious attention of Parochial Boards and Local Authorities the alarming prevalence of smallpox London, and the danger oi the epidemic extending ...

... SMALL-POX IN LONDON. Small-pox as yet shows no signs of diminution in London ; and elsewhere it is spreading, slowly may be, but there reason to fear only too surely. The Lords Friday night devoted brief period to discussing the Vaccination Act, but it ...

... introducing the subject of small-pox, referred in felicitous terms to the universal progressive tendency of the age, sketching with a bold hand the awe-inspiring picture small-pox presented previous to the discovery of vaccination, and tracing its history ...

... SMALL-POX AND RE-VACCINATION. Small-pox, observe, is still virulent Edinburgh. Sunday night the number of patients under treatment in the Hospital was 213. During the prccedin week there were 60 admissions and 9 deaths; and tho medical officer's report ...

... THE SMALL-POX EPIDEMIC GREENOCK. According to our correspondent, small-pox still prevails to a frightful extent in Greenock. He informs us that the epidemic has slightly shifted its ground, or rather we should say, has extended the area of its attack ...

... OUTBREAK OF SMALL-POX IN SHEEP. In the course of his introductory address on opening the winter session of the Veterinary College, Camden Town. Professor Simonds thus referred to the recent outbreak of small-pox in sheep. He said: As small-pox was unhappily ...