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EDITED BY
J. McKEEN CATTELL
VOL. LVII
MAY TO OCTOBER, 1900
NEW YORK AND LONDON
McCLURE, PHILLIPS AND COMPANY
1900
Copyright, 1900,
By McCLURE, PHILLIPS AND COMPANY.
JUNE, 1900.
It was due to certain particularly favorable circumstances that thefirst ideas on preventive inoculation were gathered from observationson smallpox patients. Such circumstances were presumably thefollowing:
a. It is a disease which attacks epidemically, in a short time andwithin a small area, large numbers of people, thus permitting ofeasy comparisons and suggesting conclusions from the facts observed.
b. Its fatality is comparatively small, so that after each outbreak alarge number of co