The British Journal Of Childrens Diseases Vol 11 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The British Journal of Children's Diseases, Vol. 11 Until the commencement of the nineteenth century this disease possessed a far greater degree of importance than that which attaches to it at the present time. It has always been attended with a high mortality whenever introduced into an unprotected com munity for the first time; for example, in Mexico, where it was introduced by the Spaniards under Cortez in the sixteenth century, or in the West Indies in the slave importations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.