American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-01-06
VARIOLOlD.

|deIphia, and been attended WIN great mo' 'nhJ'
Vaccination for the kline pock or innoculalion io'
the small pox we are informed, by the Philadelphia
physicians, is not security against contagon IRON
this disease The latter is doubtful.
During the year 1922, eleven hundred human be
lings we're victims to the small poe in the city
Paris. The city Of London during the same year
suffered severely from the modified disease termed
rariotoid. The population Of Liverpool, brls'o
and Edinburg occasionally in the course OF the las
seven years have suffered more severely, from thi
disorder, technically termed rariotoid as modhca
ton Of the rariologs disease commonly called smat
por than those cities suffered in any period during
the general resort TO innoculaton.
! /, 10 the same disease which madeits appearance
in the city Of Lancaster in 1918, and by which man.
individuals lost their lives and it was then remark
cd, that when it took effect upon persons who ha'
undergone the vaccine disease it was uariotoid, sci
dom attended with secondary fever. or much danger
but when the patient had never been vaccnated,
was genuine small por, attended with secondary fe
yer, and too frequently, as we must all remember
Terminating in death.
| On the present occasion OF the approximation o
this disorder, deem it duty to caution our fel
low citizens against its approach, and it has become
necessary to guard Immediately against its effects
Nineteen twenisths OF the Physicians of the pre-
sent day have, through conviction, become advocate
lof the Jennerian system, and when hundreds
red of by the small pox, such is the difficulty o
Isurrendering formed opinion, it is called by way o
distinction, vARIoLorD, that is, disorder carrying
in some particulars from the genuine disease caet
small por, in those who have undergone raccina
ton, and in them Of milder character but in thos,
whose parents have not secured to them this re
dempton from death, it proves to be small Po.r il
all its horrors,
Our only object in this notice, is TO warn our fel
low citizens to guard against the approach of thi
terrific disease, and to assure them that the mos
scientific men on earth do not consider vaccination
as security against its attacks but that it modife
its force and renders the life OF the patient compare
lively sale. Yet in Lancaster, several persons dice
OF this disease In 1918, who had been yaccinatet
some years previously; and at the same time il
was observed that those who had been recently vac
cinated were not subject TO the disease.
AS, however, experience has proved, that recent
vaccination, is security against the introduction
this disease, and as innocuation cannot now be re
sorted to as matter Of individual security withou,
endangerng the lives Of thousands, we would re.
commend that no time should be lost in vaccinatine,
not only those who have not yet been vacci
mated, but all who may have heretofore been sub
lecied to that process; for it can no longer be con.
cealed, whether time will justify the suspicion or
not, that many experienced practitioners are ofopin-
ION that the effect OF vaccination, as preventive 10
the small pox in many cases wears out Of the sys.
tenn.
This opinion, if it has not received confirmation,
has been strengthened by the dreadful mortality in
Paris, London, Bristol, Liverpool. Edinburg, and a
number OF towns Of less note in England and Scot
and In Paris, the disease is pronounced, une-
luivocally, small poc; in Eng land, some physicians
contend that it is small por, others pronounce ii "a
rtotoid, or modification of the rariol0us disease
If it is modification Of the uariolous disease, |
would beg leave to ask, whether i, must not be de.
rived from that disease and if in its progress il
requires the same treatment and in its operations and
result, X should produce close similarity to that
rightu and desolaing mortal disorder, so long and
SO iamilarly known to the world under the name of
smallpox, can webe lulled into security by the asser
lions or reasonings Of dsputants, who feel their re
puta'on' or their pride of opinion enlisted on the
side OF a favorite doctrine?
AS u IS now pretty generally conceded, that sue :
cessiul recent vaccination is security against the
disease; that at least it mobiles its force and de
priVes II OF its tcrrprs, hope that no head of al
family VIII delay one moment in securing the lives
81 those under his care from so dreadful visitor
Lancaster Gazette.
The author of y" Tour through Southern India,
Egypt, and Palestine, in the year 1921 and 1925.
gives the following discrjption of the Raab oc NJ,