Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey . A Stocking without Stayssoon rips apart POMEROY COMPANY 825 Broad St., at Branford Place NEWARK, N. J. NEW YORK BROOKLYN BOSTON SPRINGFIELD DETROIT CHICAGO Continued from pasre XX.• in their earlier years and thereby obtained al-most complete immunity for life. An epidemic of measles in the Faroe Isl-ands in 1846 well illustrates this. There hadoccurred no case of measles in the Faroesfor 6 5 yearSj but in 1846 a visitor developedmeasles a few days after reaching the islandsand out of a population of 7,782, 6,000 hadmeasles. No one who was exposed
Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey . A Stocking without Stayssoon rips apart POMEROY COMPANY 825 Broad St., at Branford Place NEWARK, N. J. NEW YORK BROOKLYN BOSTON SPRINGFIELD DETROIT CHICAGO Continued from pasre XX.• in their earlier years and thereby obtained al-most complete immunity for life. An epidemic of measles in the Faroe Isl-ands in 1846 well illustrates this. There hadoccurred no case of measles in the Faroesfor 6 5 yearSj but in 1846 a visitor developedmeasles a few days after reaching the islandsand out of a population of 7,782, 6,000 hadmeasles. No one who was exposed, escaped,except the few Avho had had it prior to 17 81,the men of 70 or 80 acquiring- the disease justas readily as the small children. These valuable data, with much other in-teresting material, such a^ the periodicity ofepidemics, the varying malignancy of the in-fection in different years, the relation of theinfantile death rate to the general death rate,studies regarding the nature of a virus, itsmode of transmission and its control by
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