Jenks' Portland gazette. Maine advertiser., 1803-06-27
From the hr7e,ie,z C4Hy .H}0.rtjer.

ANnton oV i)r. lhOrntoo OT that CITY,
entitled II Tl6ts deciiye il favor Of the
Cow-Pox" hey are fubn1lted to the
confederation # every Ps'fon. who nay
tnnk h p'eferv4tion Of human life, an
oLie worthy Of attenJion
Ihe I'm u pox W are informed from
The belt auth 0rities, del oys annually ii
Great Britain aloe. between forty and
fifty 'hnufand us, or Throughout the
habi,ab,e globe, twenty millions If peo
PIE, ex Iutlve Of thofe who perth from
the impover(h-3 l}le Of he fyltem,
PRODUCING th,le to mijablo conieqlen
ces which I How this dlea(e..
Some tOIerabIe notion may be form
ed Of the r,vaees committed By The
ima.l pox, ~ esami i1g tn bills Of
mortalty, for in London where the
G mae i temperate, the dife4le we'll
known, and the treatment Of the fck
very ably conducted, two or th ee hou
rnd, according % B4ronADimfIale,
annually perth.
30 grcu was The epidemic Of the fmall
poY At PRS. IN the year 1713, f4ys
Vlttirc, that upwards oftwenty thou
lao5 p-rith-i ia that Ct alone.
l. 1853, the Ab5c Ch4ppe informs
as. thst III fame fcourg= dsRroyed at
Naples, Gx'een thoufand perfons in
few weeks
II P1Ga tie annual dearucion Il
ea mated at two millions, by Baron
DmfIale.
II China, fys Dr. Clark, wbc-e the
population is inmeur., the number who
annually die Of the lmall pox, the moa
i"sthlome n-Et 70 the lsProly, of I'll dl
cafes, IS incalcuiable.
Thz fatality Is till more remarkable
n1ng new PeopI-, who are wholly ig-
noEa.t ft''e means OF prevention, and
the methods IT cure.
The fn,ll poI was 4 introduced n
10 New SPAN, il I5zo, BY negro
Gave, who attended NArvlrez il his a
petition 2gzin1 Cor,e,. Touito af
t,os t5s, one h,lf Of Re . ople in the
proriuce5, vilicd with thi, d,femp5r,
died. The rm.l.pox was not brought
INTO Peru, for leveral years after The
inv Gon # The Spsniards bur there
too that tia=mPeI proved very fatal to
he narves,
About dft1 ye rs aner the difcovery
~ Peru, the fmaiI PIX was carried over
ron Europe to America, by way #
CatlhaRenl, WHEN when il overran the
continent ofthe New World, and ~
Groy.d upwards OF one hundred thou
f.at indians in the dngle provi-ce If
Qnito. This account vas fouad BY M
"a Condamin-, il an ancient manu.cript
pref-rvej in h cathedral Of hat city.
This author a.rp c5l=ryei that IN the
PortgSucle (t,lcments, bordering or
the r'yer u he Rmazons, the fmlll
\ p'K vas nearly tAt2l ID I'll The natives
NJ ckenzie il lis voyages through the
continent OF n rth America, gives an
afeaing account of the dettuainn *
caioncd ar, 1ug the Indians by the Grnall
pox. The fatai infection, ,fays he fprer
around with blreful rapidity, which
N fight could elc4pe. and with falal
sfe9, that nethirg could reE1. Il de
it-5yed with its p-tllential breath who e
families and tribes and the horrid lcene
ptefeoted 10 thole, who had Tie melan
choly and all aing opportunity oi be-
holding il, combinztion Of the dead
the dying, and fuch as to avoid the hor
I'D fare of their friends around them,
prep % dilappoint the plague of il
prey, BY tel minating their own exiR
ence.
II 1851. as we are reformed inCook':
voyage, a ( idier introduced the l1 all
| Pox f7r he fra time into Kamhchatka
and twenty houf4nd perilhed from that
Jrfa fe, leaving whole villages nearly
defrIa,e
Crdrtz il his hilory Of Greenland
| lays, that The frall pox was fira intro
duced into that frozen region in I733
when mortality of this dieafe was 70
great th4t il aInoR depoPulated thj
whole country.
| Even 70 late as the year 7o3, wher
he fmall poz was conveyed TO the Il,
| Of France ID lhe EAT Indies by Dutcl
hip, five thorland forr hundred perrin
Cd there with tbs dilterper in * week
Ftora the above Hatcment It is evi
ienr, that all The wars Throughout the
whole world, have ncver defroyed f
many lives as have been cut of by this
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