| Show i I Ii i pr pr Edward In the October of The rhe Westminster Iele Review s y sums data regarding smallpox th h lre are deme deemed of 01 general interest le 11 authorIty for tor the statement ia t the generally occurs dur dur tn mt the 11 and declines with tf ib strIve I 01 o warm weather One of 01 it is II Jr Dr Carl ot of m I Louis ula Mo 10 who In giving hI td nce of smallpox says mallox Is II a dle disease e to th ot of the season lh In aUdI Dr Coln hn In La corroborates s statement lh mortality arlota reduces 10 I minimum In the months ot of June Junc Jul JOh aI In I It rises I I irni so during the win winter Jcl ter a In the spring I it again tie de lp reaching the minimum In the tho thos s In the tho of June Id 16 i it me Is stated that smallpox In durIng the tho past limb t Il ii years lars Ir testimony that Ih the i t tie front thIs OUI cause decline Uit t t it t 1 1 warm summer weather th r ml I It 1 fl states taH that of 01 29 smallpox occurred In he month monh of Di De while there were only G C In inthe th the 1 ill Ih of AUlt August The of 01 l IM I on lit III October 1170 reaching I it In D December thence i until March uh m mt t 4 b J d DUI 1 16 the tho New w York In Jn I tt II i stated that I it was It at It I a ii January Januar gradually reh rehn reha n g tI 11 lla In Then It do doI I end Ind J a low mark mark nt at the thed 11 d f 1 November r and then tse rose until he e n ii ot of the year t it t Loui Loula epidemic epidemic corn j eIdl lh 1 In Januar January and until dAy a It commenced again In ir hr anti nd lasted ti till te the col early part ot of May th N New w Orleans started troll and reache reached a then there was 01 a gradual tie de deI I und ud In it Jil July August an and them bI th n was at ls Its minImum I 1 and amid Decem Wr abet t r ru In th lh epidemIc i it wits t 1 that normal eVaporation WIS was of cl with by a 11 stag amit atmosphere which was deficient In Ihl usual percentage ot of 0 osone 01 and Sn regressive action th these e facts flleta Dr draws these lon l lm m i a in 18 t on general lw to other and sa 11 an epidemic Is dependent upon varIations ot at att t hc I alt len season n nd d 2 rime eruptive characteristics b bl by l h Is recognized ar are but f fh phenomena and are 11 or of the oper tir or of physical law lawI J I To rno doctrine ot of infection cannot be supported Ind and Is Only possible b by u actual inOculation ul ton wih with smallpox pus Us time tho ot of which do doa a td t 5 not dRYer from those produced by bT In with othor dec animal mulet 4 I is tantamount to Ino moe and poison ing 1 a criminal offence to lo human health fd flad I Ufe Co and I Is statistically to n no protective or pw oW or over Ocr smallpox and In any thin tho nature or of the th cn ease It cannot possess G 5 and amelIoration arc aro onlY to be In sanitary that health In gener veru ere the arrived It at by Dr 11 years AlO ago Dr now mi o accepts them and that An ther these throW down the gauntlet not only to 10 theories of Pro cute but als to the Pharisaical plon ot of time the general propagation ot of o epidemics by personal contact or the aerial of 01 fin microbes le He by a rebuke to the tho men who d tie grade th the of at m medicine and bring to public health under the contempt of 01 the Ile pee lIlt hiie As the t ell tins hu st stated tb medical authority Y Is I divided on time ques queston ton flea of vaccination In tIme objectors tor 10 be it they ruit to the the tho Qt attempts nt at poison poisoning In ing time the bole bodies of their children We notice 11 in the tho current number ot of otUto the Uto Medical I n an item Hem to the Iho ef ar feet that It it I is mm a queston question whether OU oats eer la is not duo to the tho ot of me meat t eaten ten 11 ip quantities In countrIes The argument that follow la is It meat I met proper Iy I rocked anti taken Into the stomach can have such Buch nn an er is If It the then un unreasonable reasonable to ask whether putrid mut mutter tor ter from a bovIne Infused directly Into Inlo tho ho blood may not Cu ing cancer scrotum scrofula syphilis tuberculosis losis or not Can pus b be more harmless than beef |
