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torlous, how scarred! how each bone protrudes through the 

 skin! how the Hmbs totter! how fretful the temper ! how 

 emaciated the countenance ! how sunk the eye ! how livid the 

 flesh! ,. , 



Perhaps even then the destroyer has still accomplished his 

 work ; and the patient, too early congratulated, sinks under 

 a lingering consumption, or is eaten away by slow cor- 

 roding ulcers, commonly called the king's evil, or scro- 

 phula. 



Such is the too faithful picture of this loathsome disease, 

 that baffles in description all the powers of language, and 

 which destroys annually in Great Britain alone 30,000 souls, 

 or throughout the habitable globe 20,000,000 of people, 

 exclusive of those who perish from the impoverished state 

 of the system, producing those formidable disorders which 

 follow in her train. 



1, Oftlie Mortality occasioned ly the Small-Pox. 



K/wntDfJihia xi)(Oit 



Lo ! with unnumbered hands aud countless feet. 



The Fury comes, her destined prey to meet; 



Deep in the covert hid, she gtnles unseen — SopHOCLES. 



The reader may form some tolerable notion of the ra- 

 vages committed by the small-pox, by examining the bills of 

 mortality; for in London, where the climate is temperate, 

 the disease well known, and the treatment of the sick very 

 ably conducted, from 2000 to 3000, at the present day, an- 

 nually perish. — Baron Dimsdale. 



So great was the epidemic of the small-pox at Paris in 

 1723, that upwards of 20,000 perished in that city alone! 

 — Voltaire. 



In 1768, this same scourge destroyed at Naples 16,000 

 persons in a few weeks. — Abbe Chappe. 



In Russia the annual destruction is estimated at 2,000,000. 

 —Baron Dimsdale. 



In China, where the population is immense, the number 

 who annually die of the small-pox, the most loathsome, 

 next to the leprosy, of all diseases, is incalculable. — Dr. 

 Clark. 



The fatality is still more remarkable among new people, 

 who arc wholly ignorant of the means of prevention, and 

 th« methods of cure. 



The small -pox was first introduced into New Spain in 

 1520, by a negro slave, who attended Narvarez in his expe- 



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