Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-04-11

stitute for the small pox IN hhei'sa, anu a'
YOU once made honorable mention OF my name
relative TO the art of preserving the vaccine VI
| rus,sI therefore take the liberty 10 'rou'ie you
with the result Of series OF experiments 10
b,sten the progressive stage Of The vaccine &C.
s;cle w,;ch am induced to believe promises
10 the world additional advantage from vacc'-
nation.
During the earlier part Of my vaccine prac'
tice when persons came to me with great con-
Germ 10 know whether it would be TOO late to
vaccinate person who had been exposed 10
the small box a week or more, and nave oech
under the painful necessity Of expressing my
fears that il would be too late! have from past
rxperience, often felt their woes-and sighed
| for 4 power that seemed to be denied 10 Vaecl>
| majors or ;nCc ulators, which was 10 be able to
force focard The u0ccine process, SO as 10 hasten
on the constitutional affection al All earlier pc
Rod than the well known time for symptoms
in either incubation or vaccination.
Having been eli eye witness Of the extreme
anguish Of two fine children, in 1908 and 1904
who applied too late for vaccination, com
menced making experiments TO expedite vac
cination by various methods OF Inserting The
virus. A, length found, ma, by making brocn
punciures on the body and shoulders, and by
charging Them many times over in succession
with active vaccine virus, was a'le to produce
an early possible, and bring ON The Symphonic
from 80 to 40 hours sooner than usual; and
am now able 10 produce above forty successful
experiments 10 accelerate the vaccine process
subsantiated by high medical authority.
write 10 you sir, because your sagacity and dis
cernmcnt will be the first TO discover the use
fulness of this improvement, and the first &c
detect error.
L.., a.. ,.,1, r>C,,
li,es beyond The Rocky Mountains, who were
once nearly ex,erminatrd by the small pox, and
who had never before heard Of this remedy
/ IL knew that DR.. Howe or MIR. Miller were
going out again to Greece, would send some
fresh vaccine virus by them, TO that brave, mag
unanimous, but suffering people, il knew wher,
to direct a Lever 10 either of those gentlemen
have the honor TO be, sir, your humble ser
want, SYLVANUS FANSliER.
.This notice was given in the New York Me
dical Repository when conducted by Messrs
Mitchell and Miller.
We may observe on the above letter, that Dr.
HIS method Of Fastening the vaccine process,
by inserting the virus repeatedly by broad
2unctures on the body and shoulders, will pro-
baby prove efficacious. The ordinary mode
OF vaccination is to introduce the smallest pos.
turr, and hence it frequently happens that The
effect upon the constitution IS so slight 10 BE-
hardly, or even not at all, perceptiblc. The
consequence is, that cases Of varoIoid have
sometimes occurred after vaccination, probably
in cases in which it had rot produced its pro-
per influence on the system, or where that in
huence was insufficient. Doctor F's method
viii doubtless charge the system with the ge>
hume disease, and prevent The after occurrence
- <~s..-,, Po-.r1 s'',nns
however, that it will do more and force the
vaccine TO ou,run the small pox, where expo
sure TO infection has taken place. That it NAV
do so, or at leas, that the efectual Introduce
of the vaccine may modify The small pox, the
following case, which medical friend has re-
ported TO us, would seem to prove.
A Child exposed 10 the influence Of The ma
tural small pox was vaccinaled, and four days
alter the operation WAS repeated. On the
eighth day from the first vaccination no ap.
pearance was observed Of the progress Of the
kIne-pock. Further vaccination was then con.
sidered unnecessary & too hats, and the parents
were advised TO nave the child inoculated with
The small pox, which was preferable to having
II in the natural way. Matter was then taken
| from the brother, who had the small pox very
| badly in the adjoining room, and inserted in the
arm near where the vaccine matter had been
inserted. The pocS rose on the arm, and 10
the surprise of the physician the vaccine vcs-
Gle also rose. and they progressed together,
modifying each other. The vaccine peck was
smaller than usual, and went through its stages
sooner than is common, though il had previ-
ously lain dormant. and appeared TO have been
put into activity by the small pox The small
pox was also modified, the peck were few, the
sickness triAng, the confinement nothing, and
The child recovered before his brother who was
first taksn.
SURGERY
novel and important surgical operation
was performed with complete success, by Dr..
S. Pomeroy White, Of Hudson, in this state,
on the Esd Of October last. a Mr.. Vanva-
kenburg, tailor, aged sixty, was afflicted with
tumour, as large as chiId's head, accumulated
in ten months upon his left hip, proceed
ing, 1t was at length found by Instrumental ex-
animation, from an aTeurismal sac of five