Half a century of small-pox and vaccination : being the Milroy lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on March 13th, 18th and 20th, 1919 / by John C. McVail.

  • McVail, John C. (John Christie), 1849-1926.
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[1919?]
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Credit: Half a century of small-pox and vaccination : being the Milroy lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on March 13th, 18th and 20th, 1919 / by John C. McVail. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. PAGE Lecture I. INTRODUCTORY ... ... ... ... ... 1 SMALL-POX AS IT WAS AND IS ... ... 2 Fatality of Small-Pox ... ... ... ... 2 Severe and mild varieties. Wagstaffe, Sydenham, Jenner, Adams ... ... ... ... 2 Hospitality Fatality Rates, 1836-51 ... ... 3 European Pandemic, 1870-73. Rates in London, Glasgow, Dublin, &c. Sheffield and Bristol, 1887-8 3 Epidemic of 1892-5. Metropolitan Rates. Table of Provincial Rates ... ... ... ... 3-4 Epidemic of 1902-5. London. Table of Provincial Rates ... ... ... ... ... 4-7 Clinical Observation of Small-pox ... ... 8 European or African Type, Severe. Infection of London ... ... ... ... ... 8 American Type, Mild. Venezuela. Trinidad 1902-3. United States 1901-3. Infection of Provinces in England. Dr. Boobbyer on Nottingham. Rates in United States 1906-15, Canada, 1912-15, New South Wales 1913-14 .. ... 8-10 Intercurrent Severity. Pittsburg, New York, Ontario, Hull, Glasgow, Bristol ... ... ... 10-12 Dr. Franklin Parsons on mild and severe types concurrently ... ... ... ... ... 12 Relation of Types to each other and to vaccination ; Chapin on Question of causes of severity and attenuation ... ... ... ... ... 13-14