American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1822, 1822-03-12


sumed that character from the circumstance of II,
small pox epidemic, in the neighborhood frorr
whence it was sent They have foreborne To ro'
mark upon that transaction, as the vaccine apen,
has since asceriaiDed and acknowledged tina, it was
the genuine small pox matter he had sent to NorS
Carolina through his own mistake; which at oncs
relieves the fears of those who doubt the efficacy nr
the COW pox if there are such and dissipsted ,ho
mist which hung over the subject, in the opinioO
| of all who did not doubt it.
1t is proper to remark that the disease called D.,
rioloid, seems to par.ake more Of the character rs
small pox than OF vaccine; and that there is no Iac
within the scope OF their inquiry to induce The
lcommittee to believe that vaccine ever has deoana
rated into varoloid. 1t is unquestonably true b,,
instances have occurred where persons have talen
the small pox after having the vaccine ,honsI
such instances are as uncommon il is for persor.
to take the small FOX second time.
The tranquility oil settled belief has been dis,nrb
ed by illusions to the difficulty of securing the con.
ItInuance Of genuine matter; though no doub, =
entertaned by your committee that proper atteulon
will overcome every obstacle of that kil d. erad;c.,a
every evil and finally triumph over prejudice ,s,s
Some reproach may have been brought upon vac
Icnation not however, the result OF any well ornd
ed doubt as to its efficacy, but from the eoorans.
or careessness Of those who have used il: as +;
well known that many benevolent persons thronob.
out the community have taken upon themselves IN
Ivaccnate their friends and others and dopb,lss,
done much'good. But if in the progress of time
Iby want Of care, the matter shall have become
spu ous, there is not adequate experience to detect
1.-THE change and consequently, some risk of exnos.
ing the person to the small pox-thereby brinpin,
danger TO the sufferer and unjust reproach to The
Icow pox. This kind Of incubation, done bv every
individual who feels chariably inclined, with care
lis not disapproved of; though they are decidedly or
Iopnon that ii would be much better 10 trust In
Iihe Judgment and care of the medical gentlemen
tof the country
The committee have deemed it not irrelevant to
STATE few prominent facts in regard to the effect,
Iof these diseases in different countries which will
more clearly show the progress OF opinion and the
advantages Of vaccination. In the first place il il
Iproper to state that there is authority for estimating
he deaths in natural small pox at one in six and
Though msre intimate knowledge Of that maladv
Together with any benefit arising from inocuIatian
lmay have pat il more in the power Of physicians 10
controul it. yet in Great Britain, where vaccination
is less attended to than in some other European
countries, fifty thousand persons annuity destroy
ed by it, But there, by vaccination, all AGREE
the waste of human life has been lessened Ii not
only secures the person from the small box, bu:
greatly lessons the danger to be apprehended from
the variolod disease, as may be by reference to
highly respectable authority. which states that at
Nlillau in France, containing about eight Thousand
Inhabitants took the variolod disease and every one
recovered whilst two hundred persons who had
not been vaccinated, were destroyed.
| In Denmark, BY the care which the governments
has taken TO cause the people to gaccinae, the small
pnx no longer exists. This remedy was introduced
into that country about the year 1900 by laws which
were vieilanty enforced. ny these laws it was or.
dered that person should be received al confirm.
alton, admitted to any school, bound apprentice to
any trade, or married. who had not been vaccinateG
unless they had undergone the small poX. ius.
idea may be formed of the benefits which have re.
suited to Denmark country W here the preseryap
ton of human life is more the object of eovernmeu
care and solicitude than almost any other--when il
is known that the city Of Copenhagen alone during
the twelve years preceding the introduction of vac.
cine, lost by the small pox, FIVE thousand FIVE hun.
dred of its inhabitants In the year 1905, not one
death occurred in the whole Danish dominions from
the small pox. Prussia has made many wise re-
gulatons favorable to vaccination, which have pro-
duced highly beneficial results. Formerly, the
small pox was believed to destroy about forty thou.
sand persons annually in that kingdom. In the year
1857. by this mild and entirely safe remedy the
deaths were reduced TO two thousand nine hundred
and forty; so that the proportion of deaths from
small pox, TO those from other causes, had been
reduced from one in seven down 10 one in one hun
dred and four.
1t is believed that the principaty of Anspach
in Bavaria containing population of 2Se,4O6 indi-
viduals, lost five hundred annually in 1897, 1898 &
1899; and in the year 300 there persisted 1909
persons but clear and distinct have been the ef
fects Of vaccination, that from the year 800 to the
year 1919, only five cases have occurred, and not
one death.
| In France, prizes are given to the surgeons who
have annually vaccinated the greatest number Of
4 persons
| In Lombardy in the year 1908, in Milan and
Geneva vaccination wasibelieved to have extirpaled
the small pox.
If the statements Of intelligent travellers ought