Illustration of a section through a smallpox pustule. Smallpox is an often-fatal disease caused by the Variola virus. Prior to vaccination (first performed in 1796) it killed millions of people each year. From New Dictionary of Practical Medicine and Surgery by Dr Jaccoud Vol. 38 (1885).

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