Native Californians used sweating ceremonies followed by icy plunges as a treatment. For many people who were infected with smallpox, historian Robinson notes, this hastened death. Other Angelenos ...

There is no specific treatment for this disease other than the management of symptoms. ... At some point in the 1800s, the virus used to make the smallpox vaccine changed from cowpox to vaccinia.

In the 1800s, about one in 13 deaths in London were caused by smallpox; by 1900 ... people whose virus levels are undetectable through medication management.) But as far as things that we can ...

Monkeypox and smallpox are both viral diseases caused by viruses from the same genus family, Poxviridae, but they have distinct differences in terms of symptoms, severity, and treatments.

this time sporting a hefty dose of smallpox, Phipps remained healthy. Against all odds, the risky treatment had granted the child miraculous immunity. This revolutionary (and wildly unethical ...

A breakthrough by structural biologists may be the first step towards a pharmaceutical medication for smallpox and the emerging human monkeypox. Smallpox has a nasty history throughout the world.

Besides the 14 people who died from smallpox in the 1800s and, more recently ... this is an atonement for the town’s harsh treatment of them. They were treated like lepers,” said Rhodes.

The professional man, in writing about smallpox, is chary of using such an expression as "the cure" of the disease. All that he can suggest is its treatment. As Dr. John Wallace Moore, Editor of ...