Show Smallpox and Jenuer Smallpox linn been io hold In chock by vaccination that llu horror Is I forgotten accnatcJ hllc and misguided and time number of thoughtless I guided persons who mire today unvaccl natcd threatens a scrlouii menace to the public health Two hundred years ago every ono had smallpox first or last us children have tho measles today those who escaped In one epidemic being almost certain to sicken In lie next From palace to hovel nonu were safe but those who had gone through the dlseaao and recovered I baa been made evident by calculations from the bills of mortality of the city of London renowned for medical science that at the beginning of limo eighteenth century about onefourteenth of tho Inhabitants In-habitants died of smallpox and during tho lust thirty years of that century when the practice In smallpox < wao highly Improved the mortality of this disease had augmented aug-mented onetenth Medical skill and sanitary scIence were of no avail unlll a village doctor Edward Jcnncr suggested the practice of vaccination vac-cination which scorned nt tho middle of the last century to he the greatest physical physi-cal good ever yet given by science to thin world I had long been observed among the dairy folk of Glouccslcrjhlre that I mild eruptive disease of cattle known an cowpox could be communicated to human beings and that HIOHO I thus aflVctcd were protected from subticquent attacks of smallpox Jcnncr conceived the idea l ot applying this I preventive Inoculation I with the cowpox on a larger scale ho tested Its cvicucy by careful experiments and finally succeeded In convincing scientlllc men and the Intelligent public that the dread disease could at last be conquered All over tho clvlllcd world the new prophylactic was eagerly adopted and everywhere it was followed by an abrupt decline In the smallpox small-pox death mleC E A Wlnslow in Atlantic t At-lantic |