purpurea in small-pox. The specimens of the plant which accompanied the communication were submitted to me for trial at the Small-pox Hospital, the root being the part of the plant particularly recommended for use. The public generally and the profession ought to feel very much obliged to Mr. Miles for the great trouble he took in bringing the subject before them. And although I shall not, unfo...

DR. J. D. ROLLESTON regarded it as a great honour to speak after Sir D'Arcy Power, and he re-echoed all that the President had said about the paper. With regard to the nomenclature, it was interesting to note that, according to the Oxford Dictionary, which Sir D'Arcy quoted, the word " pox " seemed to be derived from the English " poc," whereas the word " clap " appeared to be derived from the ...

OBJECTIVE Estimating the cost of chicken pox in a Colombian pediatric population. METHODOLOGY This was a retrospective case study which searched for all diagnosed chicken pox cases in the Napoleón Franco Pareja children's hospital (Cartagena, Colombia), during 2005-2008. The hospital's records/perspective was used. Cost related to health personnel, lab, diagnostic images and drugs were search...

Vaccinology is the science or method of vaccine development. Vaccinology was born with Edward Jenner’s discovery of smallpox vaccine that changed the world of medicine forever. The foundation that Jenner laid began a course of vaccine development and has been proved to be successful in infectious diseases such as small pox and expected to eradicate many more emerging diseases like, poliovirus i...

works relating to Public Health and Epidemiology; and, on the formation of the Epidemiological Society, he at once identified himself warmly with the work it had taken up. Having for many years given much attention to the subject of vaccination, he was appointed, together with Dr. Babington and others, as a member of the Small-pox and Vaccination Committee appointed by the Society, and it is we...

Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife can have severe effects on host populations and constitute a pressing problem for biodiversity conservation. Paridae pox is an unusually severe form of avipoxvirus infection that has recently been identified as an emerging infectious disease particularly affecting an abundant songbird, the great tit (Parus major), in Great Britain. In this study, we stud...

Until recently, colonial historiography has primarily examined imperi­ alism from the perspective of Europeans and downplayed the agency and role of indigenous peoples. In Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest Among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade, John R. Bockstoce examines the interactions that occurred be­ tween natives of the Bering Strait region and fo...

Aim The study was undertaken to assess the prevalence of antibodies to Capripoxviruses among small ruminants of Odisha, India. Materials and Methods A total of 500 random serum samples collected from 214 sheep and 286 goats across 10 agro-climatic zones of Odisha, were screened using whole virus antigen-based indirect ELISA for antibodies against Capripoxviruses. Results were analyzed by suit...

BACKGROUND Avipoxvirus sp. is a significant threat to endemic bird populations on several groups of islands worldwide, including Hawai'i, the Galapagos Islands, and the Canary Islands. Accurate identification and genotyping of Avipoxvirus is critical to the study of this disease and how it interacts with other pathogens, but currently available methods rely on invasive sampling of pox-like lesi...