Dissertatio medica inauguralis de vaccina / [William Howison].

  • Howison, William, 1793-1872
Date:
1816]
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Credit: Dissertatio medica inauguralis de vaccina / [William Howison]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Plus mille annis nunc elapsis, variola ex Asia erumpens, diras in Europa strages edidit; mortalitatem ideoque immanem ubicunque ter¬ rarum excivit. Ejus autem progressu millia delevit. “ On a fair and unexaggerated statement, three thou- sand lives in London, and in its vicinity ; and forty thousand in the United Kingdom, are an¬ nuali y the direct victims of the small-pox, be- sides a great mortality which is occasioned by the disorders consequent on this disease. It is also estimated, that, in London alone, of those persons who survive the ravages of the natural small-pox, six thousand are afflicted either with blindness, deformity, or loathsome diseases*, which render them miserable for life*.” Omnes * Bryce on Cow-Pox, 2d edition. Apperi. p. 34.
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