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Variation in Type of Infectious Disease as Shown by the History of Smallpox in the United States 1895-1912 [PDF]
, 1913 Charles V. Chapin
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Book Review of Heather McCrea, Diseased Relations: Epidemic, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924 [PDF]
, 2012 Diseased Relations is an impressive work succinct in its focus on the topic of public health history in the Mexican state of Yucatán. Adding to a growing body of scholarship on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book offers a new lens ...
Quezada-Grant, Autumn L, Dr
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Child Ordination in South Asian Jainism
Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2025.ABSTRACT The practice of initiating minors (children under the age of 18 [bāla or bāl]), was once common among Śvetāmbara Jain mendicant communities in South Asia. This article summarizes scholarship on Jain child ordination, specifically initiation (dīkṣā) into Śvetāmbara mendicant life.
Liz Wilson
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THE QUARANTINE OF SMALLPOX. [PDF]
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1908 While all intelligent and unprejudiced thinkers who have had any experience in dealing with smallpox recognize the protective value of vaccination, the general tendency is to insist on quarantine as an additional safeguard against this disease. It is for us to consider: What does quarantine accomplish? Is it necessary? Quarantine is an evidence of
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, 2007 Ravaged by war and in debt after its victory in the French and Indian War, Britain was not only recuperating, but rejoicing over the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
Gasparro, Joseph D.
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Journal of the American Medical Association, 1909 To the Editor: —I have read with interest the paper by Dr. Bracken entitled, "The Quarantine of Smallpox," inThe Journal, Dec. 19, 1908. It is an extremely favorable sign when those who are responsible for the protection of the public health indicate a desire to discharge their important duties with the least possible annoyance and expense to the ...
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