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smallpox
(Encyclopedia) smallpox, acute, highly contagious disease causing a high fever and successive stages of severe skin eruptions. Occurring worldwide in epidemics, it killed up to 40% of those who…Epidemics of the Past: Smallpox
Smallpox: 12,000 Years of Terror Epidemics of the Past Smallpox: 12,000 Years of Terror Bubonic Plague Influenza: A Twentieth-Century Epidemic Smallpox is one of greatest scourges in human…cowpox
(Encyclopedia) cowpox, infectious disease of cows caused by a virus related to the virus of smallpox. Also called variola, it is characterized by pustular lesions on the teats and udder. Cowpox is…Henderson, Donald Ainslie
(Encyclopedia) Henderson, Donald Ainslie, 1928–2016, American physician instrumental in eradicating smallpox, b. Lakewood, Ohio, M.D. Univ. of Rochester, 1954, M.P.H. Johns Hopkins, 1960. He joined (…Boylston, Zabdiel
(Encyclopedia) Boylston, Zabdiel, 1679–1766, American physician, b. Brookline, Mass. He was privately educated in medicine and settled in Boston. In an epidemic of smallpox in 1721 he was persuaded…Rhazes
(Encyclopedia) RhazesRhazesrāˈzēz [key] or RasisRhazesrāˈsĭs, –zĭs [key], 860–932, Persian physician. He was chief physician at the Baghdad hospital. An observant clinician, he formulated the first…monkeypox
(Encyclopedia) monkeypox, rare disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus, which is related to the viruses that cause smallpox and cowpox. The symptoms of monkeypox, which typically take 1…Ingenhousz, Jan
(Encyclopedia) Ingenhousz, JanIngenhousz, Janyän ĭngˈənhous [key], 1730–99, Dutch scientist. He practiced medicine in Holland, England, and Vienna and was noted for his skillful inoculations against…Jenner, Edward
(Encyclopedia) Jenner, Edward, 1749–1823, English physician; pupil of John Hunter. His invaluable experiments beginning in 1796 with the vaccination of eight-year-old James Phipps proved that cowpox…Landini, Francesco
(Encyclopedia) Landini, FrancescoLandini, Francescofränchāsˈkō ländēˈnē [key], c.1325–97, Italian composer. Although Landini was blinded from smallpox in childhood, he learned to play the lute,…Trending
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