... Jamaica. She had been detained at St. Thomas for three weeks by want of hands, four of her crew having died of yellow fever. Small-pox had broken out with renewed virulence. The steamer Plantagenet, from Liverpool, had also arrived there. Business in the island ...

... by Article i15 of the General Consolidated Order of the Poor-law Board, dated 24th July, 1847, any pauper suffering from small-pox or other infectious disorders can insist upon leaving the workhouse, in opposition ito the opinion of the doctor, upon giving ...

... immortal BIGLow holds true, that- Liberty's a kind of thing That don't agree with niggers. Emancipation may introduce the small-pox, or possibly large blue flies , but I shall not believe it till I see it. W. R. G., indeed, seems to lay little stress ...

... your obedient servant, Herongate. EDw. LUCAS. Cholera has broken out at Jiddah among the Hajjis returning from Mecca, and small-pox is raging at Suez. THE RUSSIAN EPIDEMIc.-The epidemic at St. Petersburg does not seem to be diminishing. By the last accounts ...

... slightest symptom of rabies. Indeed, any well-informed physiologist will tell you that you might as reasonably expect to produce small-pox as rabies through the agency of thirst. In man the term hydro- phobia does accurately enough express a characteristic of ...

... papers were read. Mr. A. B. Steele, of Liverpool, introduced the subject of re-vaccination. He said that the occurrence of smallpox in an epidemic form in this country had invested the subject of vaccinationwithmore than usualinterest. There was no question ...

... caused by the poison. The specific capable of doing this has, unhappily, not yet been discovered. Dr. HOLLAND again thought small-pox poison is antagonistic to that which produces hydrophobia; but he soon discovered his error. Chloroform has been tried along ...

... sixteen men were working together, when seven of them were instantly killed by the lightning and three others much injured. The smallpox in sheep, which caused so much mischief in Wiltshire and Hampshire two years ago, has, it is said, made its appearance in ...

... bv the sacrifice of diseased animals- which in the end will be a gain to all-may not fall exclusively on the owners. The small-pox which is afflicting the flocks on the Sussex downs is not quite so serious as the cattle plague, but calls for very similar ...

... at its usual season, the hay- fever prevailed to an abnormal extent, and at present there is murralin among the cattle, small-pox among the sheep, a fatal infection among the lambs, and absolutely a rot among the swine. Various districts of central France ...

... terhouses, so as to preclude the possibility of contamination of our own stock. The inspectors had not seized sheep with smallpox in 1862, and they allowed the disease to pass this year. Of this there can be no doubt, and still we hear of their evidence ...

... beings, and we may yet discover a system of pulmonary vaccination-a boon to humanity almost as great as vaccination against small-pox. One of the oddest ideas prevalent among ordinary Englishmen is that a man mayadvertise himself out of his legal responsibilities ...