Half a Century of Small-Pox and Vaccination

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Excerpt from Half a Century of Small-Pox and Vaccination: Being the Milroy Lectures Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians of London on March 13th, 18th and 20th, 1919 These lectures have been carefully revised for publication, but alterations and additions have been kept within narrow limits. The amount of time and attention which in the course of his life the author has given to Small-pox and Vaccination is indicated by the subjoined note of previous work. The present is probably his final contribution to the study of the subject. In that view he has endeavoured in the first lecture to survey shortly the statistical and epidemiological history of Small-pox in modern times. Much of the second lecture is devoted to rebutment of a contention that infantile vaccination, whilst protecting the individual, makes Small-pox so mild and so difficult to recognize where it is not entirely prevented, that the result is such spread of infection from missed cases as to render the practice, on balance, disadvantageous to the community. The final lecture gives an account in considerable detail of the measures of prevention and control which, in the absence of systematic vaccination and re-vaccination, ought, in the author's judgment, to be adopted when the disease appears in this country in the present day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.