Excerpt from The Diagnosis of Smallpox
It is ten years or more since the author conceived the notion of writing this book. He was deterred by the consideration that it would have but little value unless adequately illustrated, and to the execution of that part of the task he did not see the way. Some years later the project was revived at the suggestion of Mr. E. L. Meinertzhagen, chairman of sub-committee of the metropolitan smallpox-hospitals, who urged the author to undertake the preparation of the work and secured the co-operation of the Metropolitan Asylums Board. It is owing to the facilities extended to us by the Board that the realisation of the project has become possible.
As to the importance of the subject and the need for its exhaustive treatment there will probably not be two opinions, though there may be several opinions about the value of this result. Perhaps the most noteworthy difference from the teaching of previous writers on the subject resides in the importance attributed to the distribution of the eruption: a diagnostic criterion which has been lifted from a subordinate to a leading position.
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