Description of the Distinct, Confluent, and Inoculated Small Pox, Varioloid Disease, Cow Pox, and Chicken Pox: Illustrated by Thirteen Plates (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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In the text I have merely given an explanation of the plates and a de scription of the diseases represented in them. To have done more would have been foreign to the object of the work. It will be observed however, from the descriptions, that I have considered it as an established fact, that the small pox and the varioloid are one and the same disorder, the latter being only a modification of the former, and that the chicken pox is a sepa rate and independent malady. This, if I recollect right, was your opinion expressed in a medical journal soon after the publication of Dr. Thom son's theory upon this subject. All the observations which I have been able to make, go to confirm the truth of the opinion. Indeed the facts that the small pox and the varioloid are capable of engendering each other, and that the chicken pox has, year after year, prevailed epidemically in many of our towns in which the small pox never appeared, and consequently without giving rise to it, settle the question concerning their identity.

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