Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-05-18
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SMALLpoS.-Wc have read the Annual Address
delivered before the Medical Society of the Stat. of
New York, February, 1880, by II. Ro,neyn Beck
President OF the Society. To say that it is able
would be superlusus-its author is too well known
TO require our appreciation. The subject of TIE Ad-
dress is the Smallpox, It's history and the possibility
of its extinction
lie says that II Is generally conceded that this
disease ives unknown to the ancient Greeks and Re-
mans the first medical account OF j; given by the
-trahisuS Rhozes physician al Baedad in the he
ginning oil the tenth century, Of oldes, WI
| tcrs the disease, whose works are now extnnt
he however quotes earlier authors from wh,sh it
would appear that II was introduced into Egypt By the
| armies of Omar, the SUCCESSOR of Mnhrmet
IL is supposed that this disease brought into
SPIN about the eighth century by the saracens and
thus propnsa;ed over Europe. II first BROUGHT
10 this country Immediately after It's discovery by CO.
uInbrs. st Domingo, containing by computation
million 81 natives few years deprived Of The
whole number, by the combined effects OF the sword
end this dreadful epidemic. Mexico lost ia q very
short time, upwards ofthree millions of inhabitants
and IN several instances, whole tribes of Indians in
both Americas, appear To nave been nearly exnplisi-
ed by it ravages In 1907 it destroyed, in Iceland
10000 persons being more than sne-fourh of it's IN
habitaDt5. In 1898, Greenland was almost depop-
u!eted by II.
The practice of incubation had its origin in east
srn countries, and was introduced into Constantine
pie when It was IN use not only III Asiatc countries
but IN Borbary. In ILL., DR.. Timonis, Greek ply
stefan, educated al Oxford, but residing al Constun.
inoplc, first communicated account of the proc-
tce to the Royal Society of London, and fiom this
knowledge of its advantages came to bc spread
throughout Europe.
The individual who more particularly attracted he
attention ofthe British public to- il, was Lady Ma
ry Wortey Montague, the wife Of the English om-
bassador at Constantinoplc. While there in I7I7.
she caused her to be inoculnted, and he had the
disease mildly When she returned to England
in 1929, she had her daughter inoculard, and this
was the first in that country: il was successful
Afterwards, six criminals under sentence of death,
were offered the alternative, of suffering according
to their sentence OF Of submitting to inocuation.
They embraced the latter, inoculated by Mr..
malthland 1.-THE physician Of Indy M0ntugue,l and
all passed favora5ly through The disca-c
In America. the practice was first introduced by
DIR. BoylS on. Of Boston, his own child. I'm six
months. he noculuted ed persons but of these six
died. When the death of iuoculaed patient &C.
cured III England, there much fcrmen,. In
.oculstIon denounced by the press and from the
pulpit. But investigation il appearing that of those
who had the natural small pox, there died one in five
or SIX and OF those who inocuaied only one in
iy, tho ferncnt subsidized and the practice of nocu
citing wOs extended. Subsequently improvements
IN the mode Of communicating the inf. elton and Of
treating tho disoasc made inoCu'ated small poX fat
only IN about ono case III two hundred
The loss OF lives IN Great Britain and Ireland from
1870 TO 1900, exceeded 50 GOO annually.
In 1893, DR.. Jenner made the discovery Of the
benefits Of yaccin" matter checking The Influence
Of small pox and DR.. Beck gives some instances of
ile happy effects. During the ~ years preceding
The practice OF vaccination, $500 died Of the small
poX in Copenhagen alone. whereas, since it's intro
duction (802) down to 1905, the deaths from IT,
throughout the whole Danish domiu.ns, were only
1855.
Formerly 10000 died annually in the Prussian do
minons, OF small poX In 1917, only 900.
In Bavaria, in years succeeding tho promuga-
ton Of severe laws requiring vaccination, only five
deaths happened from small pox, and 10000 were
vacCuatcd.
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