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 / by John C. McVail.
- John McVail
- Date:
- [1919?]
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Credit: 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 / by John C. McVail. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Callander and Oban Railway, he is carried through a wide, hill-encircled strath towards the Moor of Rannoch, the scene of that long, weary tramp of Alan Breck and David Balfour, as told in Stevenson’s great story. Next he passes by the steep banks of Loch Treig to Glen Spean, where the line turns westward to Fort William. After a few minutes’ stay there the Caledonian Canal is crossed to Corpach, from which the huge heavy mass of Ben Nevis (a peakless mountain) is best envisaged; next through the romantic land of the Camerons of Locheil to Glenfinnan, where, at the head of Loch Shiel, there comes into view for a moment the monument built to Prince Charlie in the field on which he gathered the clans for the hapless enterprise of the “Forty-five”; then by Loch Eilt and the Sound of Arisaig to Morar and Mallaig. If the weather has been wet—as is too often the case —there is the compensation of Highland torrents brawling in peaty foam along the rocky beds of the many streams bordering the railway line. On the return journey re¬ versed viewpoints prevent any staleness of outlook; and so, after some fourteen hours’ travel, there is reached again the great city on the Clyde which, though cursed always with smoke and often with rain or fog, has the most splendid and spacious hinterland of any town in the British Isles.] Leicester and Small-pox. It is impossible to complete a survey of the present-day control of small-pox without reference in some detail to what has come to be known as the Leicester Method of dealing with the disease. The usual anti vaccination history of Leicester is that prior to 1872 it was a well vaccinated town, and that after having suffered from the epidemic it abandoned vaccina¬ tion. The facts, however, are very different. Before 1872 Leicester had been notorious for its neglect of vaccination, as appears, indeed, from statements made by exponents of Leicester’s methods. In 1842 the guardians decided not to carry out the Vaccination Act of 1840, and in 1851 not half of the inhabitants were vaccinated. Lord Lyttleton,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29826536_0082.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
