Smallpox : the nature of the disease and how it may be controlled. Prevention by vaccination.

  • Schamberg, Jay F.
Date:
[1900?]
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Credit: Smallpox : the nature of the disease and how it may be controlled. Prevention by vaccination. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    per million of the general population. The contrast is all the more striking in view of the fact that physicians are more exposed to small-pox than the average citi- zen. U. S. Public-Health Service Supervision.—Prac- tically all of the accidents of vaccination are prevent- Fig. 18.—Fourth day of eruption. (From Acute Contagious Diseases, Welch and Schamberg.) able by the selection of the proper virus and care of the arm during and after vaccination. The United States Public-Health Service has supervision over the products of vaccine establishments and has the power