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The Popular Science Monthly, June, 1900 - Vol. 57, May, 1900 to October, 1900
a. It is a disease which attacks epidemically, in a short time and within a small area, large numbers of people, thus permitting of easy comparisons and suggesting conclusions from the facts observed. c. These convalescents are marked and are thus easily distinguishable from the rest of the population who have not been attacked, and even the severity of the disease they have gone through is, so to say, written down on their faces and bodies. It was easy, therefore, to notice in this case, as was indeed very early done in the East, that a person who has gone through one attack, as shown by his pitted face, very rarely suffers even during severe subsequent epidemics. Smallpox, like other epidemic diseases, breaks out in some years in very fatal, in others in milder forms. It is admissible that by a mixed process of thought and faith an impression insensibly gained ground that it was lucky to have been touched by the smallpox deityof course, not in years when that deity appeared in terrifying mortality. Accordingly, in times of mild outbreaks people would not be116 very careful in avoiding infected persons, and would even seek their company so as to get infected from them. The practice of intentionally rubbing ones skin with a pustule, or with bits of it, from an attacked person, must have been a subsequent stage. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 47227
Author: Various
Release Date: Oct 29, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English
Editor: Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944
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