The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-11-28
Vaccination.

| Tdeeo ID the Latin word for cos VaSetnta II the
Latin word and scientific name for COZ po1, Hacsi
nation tie name for the pro:ess by which the vac
cine disease (vacelnia, Oowpox. Kius poz) Is pro-
duced In o human being. Moro than sixty years
ago II was discovered that psrsons who had caught
the poz from COWS affected with this disease
could not take the smallpox. The SessAvs Css.
fsd~sey In An interesting article on thu 6ubjse
says,
Sixty years go (May IA, 1850 matter was taken
from the hand Of Sarah Nslmes dairy maid. who
had been affected by her masters cows and In
ssrted into tho arms Of James Phipps, . healthy
boy about eight years old. On the LIST Of July
smallpox matter, fresh from pustule carefully
Inserted In several placas In bis srma bat no dis
ease followed.
If smallpox matter be inserted under tho ska Of
q hesthy Individual he will have small pox; il ths
saliva OF q mad dog be inserted hydrophobis will
follow If . lymph from q oow-pox vssicle be In
serted cOw-pox may be looked for Al the natural
consequences. But If putrid matter from an rlcsr
sore be used 1t will DO likely to produce by.
drophObia, measles, or whooping g-cough, a. COW pox
In fact, II Will produces nothing but uceratlve and
erysipelstous iEf animation. which may even 20 60
fer q to endanger the life Of the patient.
Lot 1t, thea, oe clearly understood that v.ecina
ton Is the production of cow-pox by the insertion
Of cow pox matter ffom . cow-pox vesicle. This
matter should be taken from the vescle on the
eighth day after Its insertion, In order to p,opog
most surely the vaccine iafect!on.
PROGRESS OF TIE VACCINE ISFEerIoN
For one or two days efter the insertion of tbs
vaccine lymph there 10 scarcely anything to be
seen at tho poin- of Introduction. On the third
day tn ere Ii little redness; On the fourth or fifth
day the vescls begins TO appear This vesiols re-
aEnbles very small blister filed with clear wafer.
n continues to enlarge from day to day, until tho
eighth day, zone week sfter the first inserton.)
when 1t measures from quarter to half an inch
across. The vescis Is lower At the centre than at
IL To
tainss in one single chamber but in ten twelve,
even fourteen aeparate cells SO that one may be
opened by puncture without letting out the entire
contents of the vesic!e.
Until the ninth day the reiness around the vesi
Gle ex snds to only small Distance from it. After
this 1t spreads much farther and the sreold ID formed
This arsoia 10 q circular red border, which contin-
uss to increase Until the eleventh or twelfth day,
when its color begins to fade BY this tino a
brown or mahogany coiored or 1st has formed over
the vesirle This becomes harder, and falls of on
the twentieth dsy. The scar Is less than half an
inch Ia disneter, circular, depressed, with Well
marked edge, and dotted with little pits from five
TO twelve In number corresponding to the cells of
tbs vesi,lo.
There Is usually some fever on ths ninth, tenth,
and elev snth days Painful svelngs In the arm
pit begin frequently On the seventh day.
II the vaccination be successful, AMI the patient
be vscsinstsd Ia the othe. aim, four OF fve days
after the frs: insertion Of the virus, the cond set
Of vesicles, though beginning 20 much later, will
CAtcQ Win INC OtUSEH, bO tuAt Tug Gay
after the Arst vaccination they will closely resem.
BILE the first set, always being, however, much
smaller.
HOW TO vACcIHATE.
: 0os rwssks aftse ths sipssRioa hf - vasel6o
lymph, Hhe rseultlng voxciD fdx11 94inDh 81 ~
bsst quality 5ar stEe1a6br 70 4Ofhsr 6fNG r6ystr
cians frequently defer vaccination until the tonth
or twelfth day. In many instanoes, even at this
advanced stage, the rerulent lymph will produce
the proper infection, but /. IL far mere reliable
the eighth day, just week after the Grst inser
tion.
The vescle should be carefully punctursd With .
lancet, needle, knife any other suitable instru.
ment, and the clear transparent lymph which comes
forth should be neatly inserted ander the cuticle Of
thu left arm of tho person 70 bs vGccinated. 1t
should be introduced in three four places, inch
apart. This IntsoIuct may te effected by prick
ing the skin with needle leaking a superficial
puneture with a lancet. II thsre be much bleed.
ing, it Ia to be feared that the lymph will not bs In
troduced. With caro- it is easy to vaccinste 70 or
80 persons from ono vesic.s the smallest quantity
being suf6cieut