Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-11-06

JAMES Il. CLAY, Esq, of Lexington. XIV.
now in Philadelphia ON business, was tender
cd a public dinner by the Wing citizens Of
PHILADELPHIA city and county last week. He
declined the honor, assigning as a rcuSon the
pressing character oi his business. In his let
ter he says
Il need not assure You ;hat il would give
me great happiness To make the acquaintance
OF the friends utmy father ia this city. lshall
bear to him IN Kentucky, Intelligence of this
manifestation of the hind feelings which arr,
entertained towards him by You, and those for
whom YOU act. and ! know that he will feel.
that in this attention to his son. YOU have add
ed To the obligations under which he already
lies to you, Tor your long continued evidences
of regard and confidence
DIR. STARK, ON SMALL POX.-Thp f..
dinburSh Witness of Sept. ID, contains a no.
tice OF, and extracts from, q small work pub
lishcd by DIR. Stark, of that city, on the PRO.
bable causes OF the continued prevalence and
fatality OF the small pox." This treatise con.
tains statements which will be startling to
some of or readers. The opinion has long
prevailed that incubation, or the having had
the small pox, afforded d perfect security a.
gainsta recurrence of the disease. But tbi,
DIR. Stark declares to be on error. We have
room only FOR the following extracts:
cit has been ascerlained. through the plan
oi vaccination adopted among the Continent
al military, that tie virus has the effect mas
many cases when the individuals operated on
| had been nrnNtnu-ly usg..l.I b. .N.n 49,. 49,
when they had been previously vaccinated.-
According TO the official report relative TO
the Reconciliation i'll the Hanoverian army
In the years ISIS" says Dr. Stark, lit an.
pears That Te-vaccination succeeded i'm ONLY
II per cent: and was only partially successful
III ~ per ccnt.-Complcicly falling in sixty
two out OF every hundred. In the army there
were a certain number of men who. instead
OF being vaccinated, had the small pox. They
likewise were subjected To the general vacci-
nation and, as II nature wished TO prove TO
disoeileVing man, that, being once yaccinated.
or having once had the small pox, were iden-
ucal IN preventing q subsequent attack of the
small pox, vaccination succeeded with them
IN the same proportions as with those who
had been previously vaccinatcd.' At Wur-
TEN burg, though the per centage of succe ssful
and unsuccessful cases was different. nearly
the same proportional ratio was maintained
between the instances OF previous small box
and previous vaccination. OF 100 yaccinated
alter small poX, b cases succeeded. 26 were
modified, and 81 failed; while of 100 vaccina-
ted a second time, the number of cases which
succeeded were 81, the modified cases 20.
and the failures IL. 1t Is further shown tha,
when the disease is once introduced into a
community, and assumes a malignant form. e.
ven the individuals who had been formelly
subjected To itcannot be regarded as complete
ly protected.
1T has been stated by NJ. Bosouet," saws
the Doctor, "that in Marscillcs. during the
year 1879, out of a population of 40. 600. a
bout 1000 had previously had the small pox:
yet of this number 20 were alta, ked a second
time with that disease, and 1 had died. The
deaths Were therefore in the proportion of 20
out of every hundred attacked, or | out of eve
~ five hundred of those who had previously
had the small pox. In the same population
10000 were vaccinated. and of this number
1000 took the small pox, or modified small
poX (varioloid;) of these only 20 died. or i'm
proportion OF out of every 100 attacked, or |
out OF every 800 yaccinated.' There are 9th
or instances sdduccd in which the case is
made out still more strongly in favor of vacci
nation. We find IL stated by Mr.. Crosse of
Norwich, that out of COZ cases of small box
which had been witnessed by him in that CT
dy during the course of his practice, no few
er than 297 had previously had the small pox.
while only 81 had been previously v%accinat-
ed. Who, IN the possession of facts such as
these, would yield a moment TO the schemes
oil again returning 10 the alike dangerous and
doubtful protection which incubation al
fords?"