[1110] W. Shearman, M.D., “Cases illustrating the Nature of Variolous Contagion and the Modifying Influence of Vaccine Inoculation.” Lond. Med. Repos. Dec. 1822. Case of a mother, with good vaccine marks, attacked with smallpox, which became dry and horny about the fifth day; case of her child, in which the eruption ran the full course of pustules, but also a mild case.
[1111] Lond. Med. and Phys. Journ. May, 1818, p. 488: “By Mr Field’s report of Christ’s Hospital smallpox in a mild form has been frequent post vaccinationem.”
[1112] Thomas Stone, F.R.C.S. “Table of Deaths from Smallpox in Christ’s Hospital, 1750 to 1850, with remarks,” in Appendix to Papers on the History and Practice of Vaccination: Parl. Papers, 1857. In 1761 there were four deaths from smallpox. For ten years, 1775 to 1784, there were none. In some other years of the latter half of the 18th century there were one or two deaths from that cause. There must have been some special reason for the four deaths in 1761. According to Massey (supra, p. 545), the apothecary in the beginning of the 18th century, not one death happened in forty attacks, the ages from five to eighteen being the most favourable of all for smallpox to fall in. In the present century scarlatina has displaced smallpox as an infectious cause of death in that school as in others. The deaths from scarlatina at Christ’s Hospital during the six years 1851-56 were nine.
[1113] John Forbes, M.D., “Some Account of the Smallpox lately prevalent in Chichester and its Vicinity.” Lond. Med. Repos. Sept. 1822, p. 208.
[1114] H. W. Carter, M.D., in Lond. Med. Repos. Oct. 1824, p. 267: “The cases which came to light of smallpox after vaccination were unfortunately numerous; some, it must be confessed, were exceedingly severe; others were exaggerated.”
[1115] The vaccinations are given in Cleland’s Rise and Progress of the City of Glasgow. Glasgow, 1820. The smallpox deaths from 1813 to 1819 are given, on Cleland’s authority, in the Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, XXVI. p. 177.
[1116] R. Watt, M.D., Appendix to Treatise on Chincough.
[1117] John Roberton, Obs. on the Mortality, &c. of Children. Lond. 1827, p. 59, note.
[1118] Gregory, Report of the London Smallpox Hospital for the year 1825. Cited in the Med. and Phys. Journ. Feb. 1826, p. 176.
[1119] Cross, u. s.