Show War Against Disease Portland Oregonian In an article artile entitled The War Var Against Disease contributed to the current number of the Atlantic by C CE CE CE E A Winslow a just tribute is paid to the inestimable value of Dr Jen Jenners Jenners ners nors discovery of vaccination Small Smallpox Sm Smallpox ll pox has been so held in check by vac vaccination vaccination Va that its horror is forgotten I Two hundred years ago every everyone one had smallpox first or last as children have the measles today From palace to hovel none none nohe was vas safe sate King William Villiam III of England lost by b smallpox his father his mother his wife Queen Mary Iary his cousins the th eldest son and the youngest daughter of James II He himself barely baret survived sur ed his own attack through the personal dE d of a gentleman of his court who nursed him night n and arid day in Iceland in 1707 out of a population of ever eyer perished by smallpox In Mexico people were suddenly smitten down downIn In the last thirty years of the eighteenth century about of the Inhabitants died of at the smallpox and among its victims was Louis XV of France Fr nce Medical skill and sanitary science science sd ence were were of no avail until in 1798 Ed Edward Edward Edward ward Jenner a village doctor sug suggested suggested suggested the practice of vaccination In Inthe Inthe Inthe the city of Berlin in every ever million of the population died of smallpox per annum from 1781 to 1805 before the introduction of vaccination from 1810 to 1850 the average number o 0 yearly deaths was In Sweden the yearly early death rate from 1774 to 1801 was 2050 from 1810 to 1850 it was Germany by the enforcement of the most rigid system of vaccination in the world re reduced reduced reduced the smallpox death rate for to less than one in of population England and nd America suf suffer suffer suffer fer from front smallpox more m re than Germany because a portion of pf the community is allowed to neglect the simple lactic |