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Usage examples of smallpox.

It was there, in Boston, that smallpox inoculation had been introduced in America more than half a century earlier, and by a kinsman of Adams, Dr.

Field in Philadelphia the previous April, Adams had been overcome by the thought that more than 2,000 American soldiers had already been buried there, nearly all victims of smallpox and camp diseases.

In a little over a hundred years it has reduced smallpox from the commonest and most fatal of all diseases to one of the rarest.

The example she used was of the development of smallpox vaccine using cowpox by Jenner.

In 1798, however, an English country doctor named Edward Jenner proved that inoculation with a related but nonfatal virus called cowpox could protect against smallpox, offering hope for the first time that the disease could be stemmed.

Two of those other patients were suffering from cowpox contracted to protect them against smallpox.

Author Note Shortly after the smallpox epidemic in the fall of 1876, the Deadwood Board of Health and Street Commissioners made themselves into a real city council and began the process of turning the town into a diverse community that, through the years, has retained the flavor of those early wild West days.

About five thousand types of virus are known, and between them they afflict us with many hundreds of diseases, ranging from the flu and common cold to those that are most invidious to human well-being: smallpox, rabies, yellow fever, ebola, polio, and the human immunodeficiency virus, the source of AIDS.

I could have had tuberculosis or anthrax or smallpox, I could have had encephalitis lethargica, better known as sleeping sickness.

Down at Montpellier, Gilbert, the Englishman, suggested red light for smallpox because it shortened the fever, lessened the lesions, and made the disfigurement much less.

It is the first time we see him alone in quite a spell, and finally, Ambrose Hammer asks where is Fergus Appleton, although Ambrose really does not care where he is, unless it happens to turn out that he is in a pesthouse suffering from smallpox.

Smallpox had appeared among the prisoners, and I believed that this would prove an admirable field for the establishment of its characteristic lesions.

American control, the maritime quarantine was conducted upon a basis of graft, with the inevitable result that an outbreak of any dangerous communicable disease, like plague, cholera or smallpox, in the nearby foreign countries, meant the early introduction of the disease into the Philippines.

God is my witness that in Holy Week I went to a poor girl with the smallpox, and touched her in the hope of catching it, and so losing my beauty.

The reaction began within hours, the swelling and fever and the vomiting, and she went out into the other deserted barracoons to gather more of the loathsome pus from the bodies of those who had survived the smallpox and were now dying of starvation and neglect, resigning herself to the fact that she had only the strength and time to care for those in Huron's barracoons, resigning herself to the fact that there was farina to feed them only, and closing her mind to the cries and entreaty, to the silent dying stare from wizened faces that streamed pus from open pocks.