Small-Pox and Vaccination in British India.

Small-Pox and Vaccination in Bhurtpoor

The State of Bhurtpoor, in common with, the surrounding districts, had been free from small-pox for nearly four years, when the present outbreak began. Having no data to go upon, I shall not speculate on the origin of the epidemic. Some of the first cases were in famine-stricken refugees from Bikanir and Marwar, and the disease had appeared in Agra a full month before these were noted; but its ...

On Small Pox and Vaccination in the Island of Antigua

The prevalence of small-pox at the present day in the parish of Marylebone is calculated to raise grave doubts in the minds of the public of the value of the discovery of the philanthropic Jenner ; or to impress them with the conviction that the Act for Compulsory Vaccination is shamefully ' neglected. To investigate the cause of this epidemic is no doubt one of the special objects of the Epide...

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 ...

The Differential Diagnosis of Small-Pox and Chicken-Pox

Carbolic Acid in Small-Pox

Attracted by this letter, Dr. D. McEwen, an intelligent Assistant Surgeon, Her Majesty's British Forces, in medical charge of the Artillery at Saugcr, determined to make use of the agent in eruptive fevers, and he has kindly favored me, for publication in the Indian Medical Gazette, with the particulars of a case of small-pox in an officer of the Royal Artillery, where the physiological effect ...