"Vaccination" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Catlin's visit his Mandan friends experienced a frightful calamity. A trading steamboat brought the small-pox to them, and, as happened in the case of many other tribes in the West, its ravages were fearful. Not being protected by vaccination, and knowing nothing {328} of the treatment of the disease, the poor creatures died horribly. Not a few, in the height of their fever, threw themselves into the Missouri and so found a quicker and easier death. Nearly ...
— French Pathfinders in North America • William Henry Johnson
... he said to his wife, as they sat alone one evening. "All young men go through it at some time or other. It's a sort of—ha—vaccination, and the sooner they have it and ...
— Salthaven • W. W. Jacobs
... Infant Mortality. III. Supervision of Foundlings Boarded in Private Homes. IV. Inspection and Supervision of Day Nurseries. V. Inspection of Institutions for Dependent Children. VI. Medical Inspection and Examination of School Children. VII. Vaccination of School Children. VIII. Enforcing of Child-labor Law in ...
— The Family and it's Members • Anna Garlin Spencer
... in prayer, offered his own life for the Pope's, and who died a few days after resolving on the sacrifice. During this Pope's reign, the smallpox was rife in Rome, in consequence of the suppression of public vaccination. The next conclave, held in 1829, resulted in the election of Pius VIII. (Castiglioni da Cingoli), who died on the 30th of November 1830, and was followed by Gregory XVI. (Cappellari). In each conclave, Austria had secured the choice of a 'Zealot,' ...
— The Liberation of Italy • Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
... scientific and mechanical interests; one of the first to adopt vaccination, applying it to his own children, and recommending it in the parish of Clapham, where he was rector in 1800; the principal founder of the Church Missionary Soc., 1798, the rules of which he sketched out much as they are still ...
— Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) • Francis Galton and Edgar Schuster
... 1st day of the month of Adar (February) there disappeared from Damascus a priest, who with his servant had dwelt for forty years in the city. He exercised the profession of physician, and visited the houses of Catholics, Jews, and Armenians, for the purpose of vaccination. ...
— Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I • Sir Moses Montefiore
... naturae [Lat.]; medecine expectante [Fr.]; bloodletting, bleeding, venesection [Med.], phlebotomy, cupping, sanguisae, leeches; operation, surgical operation; transfusion, infusion, intravenous infusion, catheter, feeding tube; prevention, preventative medicine, immunization, inoculation, vaccination, vaccine, shot, booster, gamma globulin. pharmacy, pharmacology, pharmaceutics; pharmacopoeia, formulary; acology^, Materia Medica [Lat.], therapeutics, posology^; homeopathy, allopathy^, heteropathy [Med.], ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |
