Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-03-29
wiped on the puncture.

wiped on the puncture.
| "When several successive NEGOTIATIONS
are to be performed, the lancet should be
dipped in cold water and wiped after every
|puncture.
"Dry matter has been sometimes known
to succeed after the expiration Of several
months, but that which is recent is always
Ipreferable.*
"Dry matter on glass may be moistened
with. 4 little cold or tcpid water Oh the point
Tofa lancet, allowing it some time to dissolve,
and blending it by a little friction with the
lancet. 1t must not be much diluted, but of
thick consistence. 1t is to be inserted in
the same manner as the recent fluid.
"Dry matter on the barrel Of quill may
ba applied without dilution, to very small
abrasion or incision of the skin /: and, being
held in contact for some time, and then re.
peatedly drawn over the part, it will dissolve
and be lodged in the wound.
"When ivory lancets, tooth picks, and
vaccinators, charged with dry matter, are
used, the matter should not be first diluted,
but puncture having been first made with
a common lancet, the point ofthc instrument
is to be inserted, and held in the puncturc
half minute or more; when the matter will
gradually dissolve and remain in the part.
Ifthc part ofthe instrument which is charged
be afterwards wiped repeatedly upon the
edges of the puncture, it will tend to ensure
success.
"Thrcad, charged with dry matter, may
be used either dry or just moistened with
cold or tepid water A slight iacision or
abrasion is then to be made, not more than
the eighth part ofan inch in length, on which
small portion of the thread is to be placed.
This is to be covered with small bit Of
paper, and to be retained two or three days
by mild adhesive plaster WHAT'S called
court plaster is liable to produce irritation.
Inoculated patients must be cautioned
not to wear tight sleeves, and not to injure
the arm by pressure, friction, or any other
violence, lest extensive inflammation or ul-
ceration should ensue.
"One vaccine vesicle secures the patient
from all danger Of the small Pox; but IN
many instances it is better to inoculatc in
both arms, especially when the small pox is
epidemic, or the matter is dry, or the place
of the patients residence distant.
"Lancets used for inoculation should be
kept clean and bright.
Constitutional symptoms.
"The constitutional symptoms sometimes
occur at very early period; but more COM
1monly from the seventh to the eleventh day.
81 In some cases the patient is drowsy IN
| others restless. Sometimes there is chill
illness, succeeded by heat, thirst, headache,
and other marks of febrile affection. Now
, and then asickncss or vomiting takes place,
especially in infants.
"The constitutional symptoms, of what
ever kind, are in general slight and transient,
and such as require no remedy.
ain great proportion Of cases there is
no pcrccptible indisposition; nevertheless,
the person vaccinated is. not the less secure
from the future infection Of the small pox,
provided the progress Of the vesiclc has
been regular and complete.
| "Care must be taken not to confound the
symptoms of infantilc or other disease with
those of vaccine inoculation.
"An assurance Of perfect security from
vaccine incubation can only be obtained by
carefully observing the whole progress OF
the disease. Ifany doubt remain, the ope-
ration ought to be repeated.
"When the patient has been previously
exposed to the infection Of the small pox,
that disease will be superseded more or less,
according.to the time which is shuered to
elapse before the inoculation of the cow
pock.
In this country it is now common to preserve
the scab and vaccinate from it directions for
doing which were given in a former number OF
our paper. We have never known scab kept
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