The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1848-01-15
For the Caledonian.

of Jan 9th, is n communication over the sigma
turc of S. P. Williams, which, in one respee
in particular, is liable TO make n wrong impress
sion, tending to lessen the Public confidence
in Kline Pox, and which claims some remarks
, Ed. w. says, owe were assured by DR.. Jewet
ofSt. Johnsbury we were safe" The state.
ment is probably correct. hesitate not to say
TO any individual who has had genuine kint
por, you are safe, so also say in regard Ia
those who have had small pox, you are safe.
Neither the first, or last statement, is strict
ly true. That cases ofsmall pox may have
occurred n!ttr genuine kline pox, is perhaps
! possible, That genuine cases of small pox
may occur in the same individual u second
time is certain. Yet so rare is the recurrence,
in either instance, that we say person never
has the small pox but once, and that he never
has it after genuine kline pox.
The Edingburgh Medical and Surgical Jour
nal, after numerous statistical facts in reference
to the protective power of kline pox, says,
"From this we must conclude that vaccination
/ gives as perfect immunity from a subsequent
attack of small pox, ifa person had passed
through the small pox itself" So when in
I
liams' family had had kline pox, / said they
were safe, and so believe they would have
been, had they had genuine kline pox.
man says he has Five Dollar Bill on the
Wells River Bank, i reply, l will warrant it
equal 10 Five Silver Dollars. Should his bill
be n counterfeit my assertion would not prove
true. There is, therefore repeat, absolute
immunity from small pox, ifyou have had gen.
uine kline pox
At Newbury great number were exposed
to the small pox by nursing, watching, &c,
who were wholly exempted from its influence
from previous vaccination, some, forty four
years since, others, from five TO twenty years.
In Col. Bayley's family, three had the small
pox, who never were vaccinated, while six.
who had been vaccinated, wholly escaped the
disease. 1t is now more than forty years since
had kline Pox, and from that period up to the
present time, have been among the small pox
every few years, have been repeatedly innoc-
ulatcd for it, seen it in all its horrid forms, and
have wholly escaped its influence Shall
not then be allowed to say TO the individual
who had had kline pox, genuine, will warrant
you to escape small Pox, have often said it
and must again.
But the great evil is, all cases, even in the
same family, and vaccinated at the same time,
and even from the same arm, may nc: be genu.
inc. Thus in Elder Williams family, several
who had been vaccinated escaped while of 9TH
ers, some sckened, and two died who had been
vaccinated. The doctor who vaccinated this
family may not have seen them after vaccina-
ton, or might misjudge. have good reason
to believe that neither pains or expense were
wanting TO make his family secure.
But there is great fault among the people,
and while there is a disposition to procure vac
cination at the cheapest rate, and that without
any regard to the skill of the operator, or his a
bility tojudge whether vlcoin alton be genu-
inc or spurious, just so long may we expect to
hear of small pox after vaccination.
CJEWETT.
| st. Johnsbury, Jan. ~, 1877.
| u The Thermometer stood at 3 egrees be-
low zero, in Boston, Tuesday morning last, at
sunrise.
At Albany, N, Y, it stood at IL degrees be-
low.
UHon. ANDREW KENNEpY, late NJ. c. from
Northern Indiana, died at indianapolis a few
days since of Small Pox caught at Muncie town,
on his way thther. His attack, it will be re-
membered, was the cause of the sudden ad-
journment of the Indiana Legislature.
NoMINArIoN OF JUDGE. Hon. Richard
Fletcher, of Boston, has been nominated by
Governor Briggs, as an Associate Justice of
the Supreme Judicial Court, in place of Judge
Hubbard, deceased
SLAVERY IN ALABAMA. A bill has been in
troduced into the Legislature of Alabama, the
object of which is to prevent the separation of
the families of Negroes, and to exempt them
from sale by legal process. A motion was
made to indefinitely postpone the bill, but il
was lost by large majority.
| GFDaniel Buck, son of the late Hon. d. A
A Buck of Chelsea, has been appointed one
} of the Assistant Clerks of the U. s. House of
Representatives.
Railroads. The Che shire road has beer
opened to Troy, N. H., and the Vermont anC
Mass. road to Athol, Mass. The Peterboro
road "a branch of the Ftchburg] has been O.
peued in part.
t u The examination of the two students Al
, Yale College for their murderous assault upor
the tutors, resulted in their commitment tC
prison to await trial, they being unable to pro
, cure bonds to the amount of SIC, 900 each.