Wheeling compiler. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [i.e. W. Va.]) 1829-1831, 1830-05-26

:, s.. 6sr;uninr Of the tenth century l'l
- a''o :, ~ n,dsst writers on the disease
whose works are now extant. lie now low !,
or onotes earlier authors, from "l1i'n -, :,
would appear that it was introduced nn.O
EOynt by the armies of Omar, the success
sor of Mahomet. 10 yas
Il is supposed that this disease wa
BROUGHT into Spain about the eighln ee l,od
rv Nv the Saracens, and thus proPaga,eu
over Europe. 1t was first brought to ln'S
country immediately after its discovery ~
Columbus. ST. Domingo. containing o.
computation, a million of natives was II
few years deprived of the whole nuniOel
Nv the combined effects of the swold anu
tb;s dreadf,l epidemic. Mexico lost, IN
very short time, upwards of three millions
&C inbab,tants: and IN several instances
whole tribes Of Indians, in botn Americas,
annear TO have been nearly exunguisheu
hy ;ts ravaoes. Ia 1907, 1t destroyed III
Iceland. 1900 persons, being more ina man
one fourth of its inhabitants. In 1908,
Greenland vas almost dopopUlatsd by A.
The practice of Innoculation bad hs Or
;rin in eastern countries, and was inuO-
Jgced into Constantinople when II was W
rae not only in Asiatc countries, but 10
Rarbarv InI7l4. DR.. Tlmonla, Greek
physician. educated at Oxford, but resi-
dino at Constantinople, first commGnlca-
ted an account of the practice to the hoyai
Society of London, and from this know
ledge Of its advantages came to be spread
throughout Europe.
The individual who more particularly
attracted the attention of the British pup
rc - !, was Lady Mary Wortley Mon
tocue the wife of the English ambass aaor
~ Constantinople. While there, IN I|I',
clio caused her son to be innoculated' ana
he had the disease mildly. When she re-
turned TO England, in l722, she h3d her
IJaupbter innoculaled, and this was the
FIRST case in that country; it was success
GJ A0erwar 3. six criminals under the
sentence Of death, were offered the alter
native of suffering according to their SEN
fence. or of submitting 10 innocuatlon'
They embraced the latter, were lnnocuIa-
ted nv MIR. Maitland, (the physician OF
Lady Montague and all passed tavora'
bly, through the disease.
In America. the practice was first intro
duced bv DR.. Boylston, of Boston, on his
own child In SIX months he innoculated
2t4 persons, but ofthese six died -When
the death of an innocuIated patient occur
red in England, there was much ierment'
Innoculation was denounced by the press
and from the pulpit, But on investigation
it appearing that of those who had the nat
urai small pox. there died one IN five OF
SIX. and of those who were innoculated
only one ia fifty, the ferment subsIded'
and the practice of innoculatIng was ex'
tended. Subsequent improvements IN the
node of communicating the infection and
Of treating the disease made innoculated
small pox fatal only in about one case IN
two hundred
The loss Of lives in Great Britain and
Ireleo5. from l77O to 1900, exceeded 3d.
600 annually.
IT, 1898. DR. Jenrer made the discove
ry of the be oe6ts of vaccine matter IN
checking the influence Of small Pox, aOC
DR. Beck gives some instances OF ITS hap
oy effects During the twelve years pre-
ceding the practice Of vaccination, 5'5W
died Of the small pox in Copenhagen a
lone, whereas, since its Introduction
| 1902 down to 1903, the deaths from it
Throughout the whole Danish domlnlons'
were only l58
Formerly 10000 died annually in thu
Prusslan domioions, Of small Pox Il
1877, only $3.50.
In Bavaria, in IL years succeeding thu
PRONUNCIATION ofsevere laws requiring vac
Cinatlon, only five deaths happened iron
small pox, and 1872. 900 were vaccinated