215 results for smallpox

1843
Charlotte Fowler and her brothers, Orson...

16 December 1843
Thomas Hood's poem The Song of the Shirt...

By 12 May 1845
Benjamin Disraeli published his condition-of-England...

E. A. Dillwyn

Elizabeth (Bessie) De la Beche Dillwyn , EAD 's mother, was moneyed and unconventional. She died in 1866 of smallpox.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

1851
An international effort to defeat disease,...

An international effort to defeat disease, suggested by the success of smallpox vaccination, began at a conference in Paris this year.

Alice Dixon Le Plongeon

The Le Plongeons began their work by forming relationships with the residents, learning Yucatec Maya, and immersing themselves in the culture, seeing their ability to communicate with the living Maya as an important step to interpreting the past.
Desmond, Lawrence Gustave, and Phyllis Messenger. A Dream of Maya: Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon in Nineteenth Century Yucatan. University of New Mexico.
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ADLP kept a detailed diary of their experiences as they travelled from town to town, and they took photographs of people and places at every stop. When they received news of a nearby outbreak of smallpox, they began to vaccinate the people in each town as well, at the request of the governor of Mérida, who could not afford to pay a doctor to do this. ADLP in particular spent time photographing the women of Yucatán and learning about their way of life. She even taught a singing lesson at a school for young girls.
Desmond, Lawrence Gustave, and Phyllis Messenger. A Dream of Maya: Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon in Nineteenth Century Yucatan. University of New Mexico.
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Le Plongeon, Alice Dixon, and Lawrence Gustave Desmond. “Travel Diary”. Yucatan Through Her Eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer, University of New Mexico, pp. 35-211.
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20 August 1853
The Vaccination Act made vaccination against...

The Vaccination Act made vaccination against smallpox compulsory for everyone in the United Kingdom, and provided for administering it gratis under the Poor Law.

1854
A Hero of Our Times, a novel by Russian Romantic...

F. Mabel Robinson

The title-page bears a quotation from Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's Love about a fiend with the appearance of an angel beautiful and bright.
Robinson, F. Mabel. The Plan of Campaign. Methuen.
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In the novel, set in Ireland, politics are a constant background presence, but personal relations are the centre. The opening scene of guests arriving at a social gathering offers FMR the chance to introduce and describe most of her cast of characters. They include both members of parliament and agitators, both Irish nationalists and those who believe that Ireland can never be a nation. Questions like Home Rule, and the plunge in the value of Irish produce in the face of imports from all around Europe: such questions shape the context of the story, while the narrative centres on friendships and courtships. The angel/fiend of the Coleridge quotation is Elinor Fetherston, a dazzlingly beautiful young woman from a large family, who has debts and needs to marry, who has ambitions and needs to charm and conquer. Her female foil is the grey-eyed Stella Considine, who has strong political opinions (she cannot abide a landlord) and a beautiful singing voice, and is solving her own money problems by teaching music, with a secret elation at her own earning power. Among a network of male characters two stand out. Richard Talbot is gloomy, dignified, and restrained in manner, once very handsome but now grotesquely marked by smallpox, an able man who grasps political intricacies and makes up his mind in an instant, a man of whom strangers are afraid.
Robinson, F. Mabel. The Plan of Campaign. Methuen.
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Titus Orr, his foil, is a broad, compact young man, a personage to love and trust at first sight,
Robinson, F. Mabel. The Plan of Campaign. Methuen.
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who sees the complexities of political issues and hesitates before them, unable to decide for want of power to see the future.
Robinson, F. Mabel. The Plan of Campaign. Methuen.
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September 1858
Louis Pasteur investigated spoiled wines...

1861
The first known fossil of Archaeopteryx,...

1861
Maria Rye established the Female Middle Class...

1862
Jean Henri Dunant published and distributed...

1 May 1862
The International Exhibition of Industry...

1863
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine published Histoire...

May 1863
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton...

1865
William Lecky published his popular History...

Before October 1865
John Ruskin published his popular treatise...

1866
Paul Verlaine published Poèmes saturnien...

1866
American Augusta Jane Evans Wilson published...

June 1866
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution...

1867
Women taxpayers were first allowed to vote...

1867
A new Vaccination Act brought in one of the...

All children were required to be vaccinated against smallpox, notwithstanding well-founded doubts about the safety and efficacy of the procedure. Noncomplying parents could be fined, have their household goods distrained or sold, or be jailed. Despite the growing anti-vaccination movement, provisions for conscientious objectors were not available until 1898.

29 March 1867
The Metropolitan Poor Law Act was passed...

The Act also established the Metropolitan Asylums Board to manage lunatic asylums and hospitals for special diseases, such as smallpox and other infectious complaints.

Autumn 1867
The London National Society for Women's Suffrage...