Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-03-09
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FOR THE ENQUIRER.
VACCINAT ON.

YtCCINAT ON.
vi ss'e number oil people, especially children
aud youths, have been vaccinsted and sill more
would have made application for it, il they were
perfectly satisfied it is an iuallible preventative.
oil The Sma-Pox. Many questions have been a, O.
posed to me, by differeHt persons ut different times
in respect to the prophylac,ic nature OF Cow p5x
which will answer by briefly stating the rias
made ten or twelve years ago, and the result ui
which has satisfied me, in c9nluuct on with what
1 read and heard before and since on the suffice
My opinion is that person who has had the
Cow-Pox is more liable to the Small-Pox, than
he is to Il cond attack OFT this.
1. yacciuated all MIR. Els. family, white and
black, excepting one young lady They went thro
the Cow-Pox rs usual. then innocuatcd the younc
lady with matter taken from u VOL. mt case of CO flu
cnt SmaPOx She took the disease in mild
form and got safely over it. The rest of the fmi-
ly, who had been vaccinated, stad with and waited
upon her, but not aift cted by the Small.
Pox.
2. | vaccnated two children, and they went thro'
the disease as usual. Some time after, family who
had just moved into town, live in the same house
had the Sma-Pux in the natIrai way. Those who
had been vacsinated put To sleep in the same
bed viii. other, whe had the Smail-Pox, but esca-
ped unaffected. This trial of the prophylactc ma
ture OF CowpoS, bscame known many OF the nerh-
bours; tgave great sa,isfaction and produced deci
slve effects on the mind. OF the people who were
sefore in suspense.
the course OF some months afterwards the mother,
who had been innoculated Tor the Small-Pox, MANY
years before by aphysician, and who was suppo;el
to have had it, affected with the small-psx as
wen as many others in the neighbourhood The
smallpox proved of the conEucnt kind her case
WAS dangerous, and tor Several days the event IA,
Peared doubtful. She, however, recovered The
ply stefan VIII .ad innocuiated this woman was colo
mel oil liis county at the head OF every ball and
fashionable amusement, drinking parties, Sc lie
IEgyet Il.In Int
ed great hysican. was informed Of eighteen
oil tlc people lac had innoculatcd for the smal.Dox
in one spring, besides this woman, who had taken
Tia, mall-pux that time ia the natural way Had
ne use The matter OF the cnicking-pox Instead Of
that Of the snall-poX
The child in question, sucked the mother all the
time she WAS i'll OF the smallpox, rs we'll as bsf,re
anu afterwards and was not affected. This case
a. we'll IS the two preceding Ones seems conclusive.
y toprove that the Cow-pox is Preventative of
the Smallpox.
Besides these experiments, and the incaIcul.he
number made by different ply sicians, in va ions
parts OF the world and which are detailed in medical
books, !, IS we'll AZ every person who has been ex
tensvey engaged for many years in the practice of
medicine, have seen people OF all ages AMI cond;ti
ons IN lille, who had bcen vaccinated exposed TO the
anal -poI in every form and under every po,s.bI.
circumstance, without being affected BY il. The.
conclusion therefore, forced upon my mind is tba,
there 10 no more danger of taking the small sox
alter bsi,g yaceinacd, than there ia oCtakipp the
smallpox second time
But have seen instances of the spurious pus-
tule, since came to practice in Virginia, miuakeo
Tor the vaccine pustule TheI is no oh yscian. how
ever eminent IN his profession, ,hatcetld adequate
~ Judge OF the characteristics OF the vaccine paslu
the first time he sees one. Discrimination j. sen,,;
red by experience, and people who suppose that
:j%! vaccine matter is sure to produce tue vaccine
pustule IN every Instance; or that Judge of the RI,
atty ofthe Cow-pox, from the degree of sickness il
occasions, aud that no knowledge is necessary to
vacelnate rightly, but whit people possess who me-
ver studied medicine in general aud the subject Of
'aecn lii"n III particular, must not only unnec .ssa
riiy torture their patents, but will find ITEMS I,,s
when TOO late, esregOusly mistaken
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