The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1850-05-01
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otler few Remarks oa.its olign and chLfac~
= ler, as well as The proPhylacllc powers Of
vaccination with the kine.pox.
-.eiH AYher. we reflect that Tor many dges the
small ipox proved lalal to more han one.tealh
.-ot ihe people OF the Then known globe, The
subject presents Itselfto Us as one OF no tlle
importance, and demands Of The sipccrs phi,
ian'hropisi his most calm aud deliberate cGa
isideratlon. in what age or country the dis
'ease had It's origin, is involved in considerable
''uhceranIy, some are of opinion that il is
.c@val with our Species soIle that 1t is OF quite
modern origin, while Others lite il hack TO
the misioiiunes and affections ofJeb. II is true
Hhat this patient MIN of The land of Uz, who
existed about 1890 years before the christian
era, (erroneously reckoned by Usherat l500)
was touched in The bone and flesh and smote
with sole biIes from The svIe of his foot TO the
crown ofh:s head, and that "he took him a
potsaerd 10 scrape himself wlhal, and he sat
down among the ashes" This would seem
toindicate a very severe and heightened aIa
tack of the continent form, which completely
roVerc amo the patent, and eau sed him to
curse The day wherein he was born, TO sgl
and roar like poured out waters, and desire
TO be where the wicked cease from troubling
and where the weary are at rest. This was.
perhaps, the first case since the creation OF
the world since the foundations Of the earth
were laid, when The morning stars sang to
gether and all the sons Of God shouted fol
Jpy; since pale faced Cynthia began to
move in her heavenly pa b, or the all seeing
eye ot Jehovah through his spnil moved upon
the lace OF The waters and caused the sun
hrst to burst upon our pahet ami roll back
the darkness Of chaos into the unknown re-
glons Of eternity Would 10 God il had been
The last one.
Bat, be this as il may, we find no mention
OF the disease in the writings Of Homer, who
IS supposed (though erroneouslyl to have ex.
lsled coIemporaneously with Abraham. Nor
does Herodotus speak Of il, or Htppccraes
the taIher of Physic itself The Chinese
who seldom tell the truth, fix the date Of The
disease ll22 years before the christian era,
and assign their county as the spot where it,
- hrSt appeared. The sacred books of the
Gentoos are said 10 give the disease an ex.
is,ence 3400 years ago, and an ancient med
1cal writer called Aaron, gives some account
OF a disease something Ike it, al Alexandra,
about the close Of the 6thcenury. Bat none
OF the early Greek or Roman writer's give
any notice of ,and we are left tolradtiUnai
accounts alone. in cleaning its character,
prior to the light OF modern history,
5a The earliest authentic description, reject,
ing accounts founded on stories LOST in nuti.
"quily,ls given by Rtzes, an Arabian medical
author, who wole about tie 0h century Of
the Christian era. lie gives the prevalence
OF the disease in Asia, from whence it was
introduced into Africa by the Saracens, and
from thence all over the countries Of South,
ern Europe. II is believed 10 have been in>
troduced into Greal Britain about The ll,h
century, by the Crusaders who wuged war
tor The recovery of The Holy Land, aud who
spread The small pox through all counties con.
cerned in the enterprise.
At The time OF the discovery Of America by
Columbus, and even by AmericuS Vespncus
the smal-poX was entirely unknown to the
western continent 1t was carried TO St. Do
mlngo BY the Spaniards, in 1871, where it
made tremendous havoc among the people Of
rhe island. II next spread through Sout4,
America, aud about the same Zine reached
the city oil Mexico, where it DESTROYED ups
wards OF thee million inhab itenls. Il frsl
prevailed in Boston in 1919, nller that in
most of the colonies, and subsequently IN va,
rious cities of the United States
About The year l775, Dr. EIward Jenner,
OF Glouees ershire, England, then engaged
IN mixing inoculaIions Of the smallpox, ob
served thai persons whose occupation it was
10 milk cows affected with peculiar kind of
disease called 'kine pox," were protected
against the virus of The smallpox, whenever
they had been affected win tie mild, pns
Iular vesicles Of the former disease. The
notion suggested itself al once to him, that
this was preventive of small pox, and he
accordingly introduced the matter Of cow
pox into the lntegumcnt Of scve al PERSONS
who were thereby rendered unsusceptible to
small pox, even by inocua ton. lie con.
unned his experiments Ioi % years, and finaIIy
in. l796 was fully convinced Of tho lmpor,
tance of his discovery, md published the
same to LIE world Two years lhereaf er. In
l70o, The prophy Tactic powers Of kline pox
were tested IN this country, and vaccination
soon extended Itself to every part of the earth.
Many scientific men, since the discovery
ofEaccinal on, have been emuousIy engaged
IN investigating the subject. Some Of them
assert that kine pox is but smallpox modified; /;
while others assert thai it is quite the reverse
---tIp very "ant0gonst principle The more
probable way Of n is,that The sease affec irg
the COW, was originally Produced by the poi
sonol The small poy, and tint the alter un
dergoes permanent modification in passing
through the system Of that animal, being con,
verted into disease Of milder character.
which itIelains with little change, after hOvs
lEg passed through the system for successive
generations. VarioIoid is a modification of
smallpox by previous vaccination, aud will
communcate the genuine unmodIfied small
poS TO those unprotected by either vaccina-
ton OF having had The small pox. il some
tunes prevails as an epidemic IN very pnpu-
lous districts. The summing up of all is, that
pariold or small pox, rarioloid or modified
smallpox, and variola pacciaa or cew-pox,
are originally one and the same disease
AnIatack ol' small pOx, either from conta.
glonoor infection, may be early known by the
following prominent symptoms: = Weakness,
especially of The back, pain at the pit Of the
stomach, mcteased on pressure; drowsines.,
AMI sonEBmcs fit resembling paroxysm OF
epilepsy when ply ysi:ian should be 'imme-
dlately consulted. When the virus is intro
ducetI ino The capillary vcssels,lhe same msy
be fell throughout the system in 30 sec, ,,and
pass the incubati6g stale in very few days.