Preliminary Report upon Investigations Concerning the Contagium Vivum of Small-Pox

A Linnaean thesis concerning Contagium vivum: the 'Exanthemata viva' of John Nyander and its place in contemporary thought.

by 1700 there was available theoretical and observational evidence which should have made possible the formulation of our modem germ-theory of disease. Kircher had advanced the concept of a contagium animatum.... Redi had presented convincing evidence that living things ... were not spontaneously produced.... Leeuwenhoek had actually described and figured the protozoa and bacteria in the human ...

The Differential Diagnosis of Small-Pox and Chicken-Pox

Xylol in Small-Pox

slightest symptom observable due to the xylol. The result was as follows : On the second day of the xylol treatment, when 45 nuns, were administered, the rash was fully pustular. On the next day the pustules were nearly all dried up, and the following day found every trace of pustule disappeared. The sepoy bears four good vaccination marks (evidently of childhood) and a failed revaccination in ...

Arthritis Following Small-Pox

To the Editor, The Indian Medicai, Gazette. Sir,?With reference to Dr. Gopal Singh Chawal's letter in the correspondence columns of your issue for May 1927, with regard to arthritis as a complication of small-pox, 1 wish to say that arthritis as a complication cf small-pox is neither very rare nor unheard of. I have myself seen four such cases in a village of population 8,000 in Ramnad District...

Small(pox) Success?

The 30 th anniversary of the World Health Organization's (WHO) official certification of smallpox eradication was marked by a slew of events hailing the campaign's dramatic tale of technological and organizational triumph against an ancient scourge. Yet commemorations also serve as moments of critical reflection. This article questions the acclaim showered upon smallpox eradication as the singl...