Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-25
HOW SMALLPOX
 CAME TO BISBEE
Something of History of This Malady Feared by
 all People


 the city has been traced in the past few weeks, and this disease seems to have been brought to Bisbee by Floyd Thornton. the colored brieklay, or. There is no longer any doubt about it being smallpox, but in a mod, fled form. -a>...- N --.r
 The cases which were first brought to the attention of the physicians were the colored women who were taken sick on Quality Hill, one oi whom died One of the guards at the house has now been quarantined for the disease, as have three other peo pie. It has been found that some oi these had been exposed to the house in which the colored. bricklayer was sick.
 There are three diseases of simi, lar external appearance which are hard toirecogniZe, one from the oth, CT. These are acne, measles and chickenpox. Without a close diag. nosis of the case it is hard to deter mine which of these the patient is suffering from. s-
 Vaccination is regarded among the physicians as a safe means to stamp out the disease, The patients. how. ever, should be isolated from others As a proof of the effectiveness of vaccination the high rate of death among the soldiers of the Franco Prussian, war is sighted. .-.The Prps- sian soldiers were yaccinated. the op- posing soldiers were not. Among the vaccfnated men there was practi- calIy mol loss of life when smallpox broke out, while among the others there was loss of over half the men from smallpox This instance is often cited by physicians in behalf of vaccination.
 Smallpox was first accurately de- scribed by Rhazes. an Arabian physi- clan, who lived iR the Ninth century. After the Crusades it prevailed in most of the southern counties of Flu rope, whence it spread into England and the more. northern countries by the Thirteenth century. The Span iards introduced the disease into America in the early years of the Sixteenth century It appeared first in Santo Domingo, three years later in Mexico. when it destroyed 3.500.- 900 people, and thence spread with
 
 World. In 1707 it reached Iceland, habitants fell victims, and in 1733 it almost depopulated Greenland
 Tn the Seventeenth century a care ful study of the disease was made by Sydenham, who introduced many i'm provements in its treatment, but no means of preventing it's spread was dfSnnparGH nation in 1796. An attempt to n1iti- gate the severity of smallpox was made by reviving the practice of in ocuIation, and this was introduced into England by Lady Mary Wortley Montague in 171S.
 Smallpox is one of the most con tagious of diseases, and few who are exposed, unless protected by yacciua- ton. escape infection. Even the un- born child may be attacked throush the medium of the mother, and may be born with the characteristic rash or pitts. The malady is particularly fatal in the young children and among aboriginal races; negroes are espec- iaIIy< susceptible. One attack usu- aIIy. but not invariably, protects against another. No specific micro organism has been identified with the disease. although eagerly sought. The contagion exists in the pustuies, in the fluids of the body. and appa- rently in the exhalations from the lungs and skin The dried scales thrown off during the desquamation are the most important element in disseminating the malady, which tray els long distances and with great rapidity, through the medium of clothes, furniture. or other articles which have been in contact with the patient
 There are three. commonly known varieties of smallpox. They are the modified or discrete. from which there is but little loss of life: coRflu- ent, from which the rate of mortality is about fifty per cent, and hemorT- hagic, from which only about three per cent recover.
 The smallpox situation in Bisbee is sot serious, but few cases being re ported, all under quarantine, and none of the cases regarded danger GUS. It is believed the disease will be stamped out in a few weeks. Ey- cry precaution will be used against it's spreading