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Excerpt from The Ohio Medical and Surgical Journal, 1850, Vol. 2 The series of observations and experiments by which the illustrious Jenner demonstrated the protective power of vaccination, form one of the most brilliant eras in the history of medicine. For generations had the small-pox sent terror and distress into all the nations of the world. Well authenticated records of its ravages, from the time of Maho met, to the close of the last century, have been preserved; and according to these, no disease which ever desolated the earth has caused so much suffering and fear. Amidst the snows of the extreme North, and on the sunny plains of the tropic, has it sent forth its noisome exhalations, polluting the air, and propagating its poison wherever victims could be found. Previous to the introduction, of vaccination, the deaths from small-pox in London alone averaged about two thousand annually, as appears from the bills of mortality. In a single year, 1776, more than three thousand and five hun dred died of this disease in that city. The Spanish historians of the conquest of Mexico relate that in a short time after the small-pox reached the capital more than three millions and a half of lives were lost by it in that nation alone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.