Miscellaneous works. Of the late Robert Willan. Comprising, An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition. And detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications / Edited by Ashby Smith.

Robert Willan

Date:: 1821

Credit: Miscellaneous works. Of the late Robert Willan. Comprising, An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition. And detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications / Edited by Ashby Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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and Italy, during the sixth, seventh, and eighth centuries, under the names of Pusulae, Pustulae, Pesute, &c* (p* 94*) applicable to the Small-pox, with different degrees of re¬ semblance, up to the most complete, are ad¬ duced from Gregory of Tours and other writers. And the existence of the last-men¬ tioned malady in France is traced to a period long anterior to its alleged Arabian origin, by the light derived from a miscellaneous MS. in the British Museum “ of the eighth or ninth century, partly Saxon, partly Latin; in which it is said that St. Nicaise, Bishop of ftheims, and a martyr, A. D. 453, had been affected with a species of Variola” (p. 9b-) With respect to Britain, the completion of the design of converting the island to Chris¬ tianity under the auspices of Pope Gregory L (p. 108, and note,) led to such frequent in¬ tercourse with Italy, France, and Belgium, that the epidemical and contagious disease prevailing in France at the close of the sixth century, (as stated in the work, p. 87?) and which has been considered to have been the Small-pox, was necessarily communicated from time to time, through the Heptarchy. The establishment of religious houses con¬ tributed to the more ready propagation and

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