The Vaccination Question by Trung Nguyen

Author:Trung Nguyen
Language: eng
Format: epub

(1) The kind of stuff that a learned man can acceptably lay before a learned society is illustrated by a phrase used by Dr Guy in this paper (p.415)—"such fatal maladies as the 'Parish Infection,'" The name hardly sounds like that of a disease recognised as such in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; and it is in fact a mistake (copied apparently from a statistical work of John Marshall), the number of " parœch. infect.," or "parishes infected," being taken as the number of deaths due to an otherwise unknown disease; and, when the weekly lists of these are added up for a whole year, a considerable figure is the result. See Creighton's "History of Epidemics in Britain," Vol I. p, 396,

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