Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-12-03
Vac,cination.

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Vaccination. ~
Kacca is the Latin word for coio !; Kac.
cinia is the Latin and scientific for coo
poe. Eacciaation the name for the pro-
cess BY which the vaccine disease Vaccin.
ia, COW pox, kline pox,] is produced in a
human being. More than sixty years ago,
it was discovered that persons who had
caught the cow por, from COWS affected
With this disease, could not take the small
.pox. ' sss' IS z es =
sizty.six years ago, (May 14th. 1885, }
matter vas taken from the hand Of Sarah
.Nelmes, q dairy maid, who had been in
fected BY her masters cows, and inserted
into the arms Of James Phipps, a healthy
boy about eight years old. On the 1st of
July, small pox matter, fresh from pus-
tule, was carefully inserted ID several places
in his army, but no disease followed,
Ifsmall pox matter be inserted under
the skin of a healthy individual, he will
have small pox !; if the saliva Of mad dog
be inserted, hydrophobia will follow; if
the lymph from q COW pox vesicle be inser-
ted, COW pox may be looked for as the nat.
ural consequence. Butsif putrid matter
from an ulcer or sore be used, it will be as
likely to produce hydrophobia, measeles, or
whooping cough, as COW pox. In fact, it
will produce nothing but uloerative and
erysipelatious inflammation, which may even
go SO far as to endanger the life of the
patient. x -
Let it then be clearly understood that
vaccination is the production Of COW pox,
by the insertion of COW pox matter from a
COW pox vesicle. This matter should be
taken from the yesicis on tbe eighth day af.
ter its insertion, in order to propagate most
surely the vaccine infection. -
PRoaREss OF THE VACCINE INFECTION.
For one or two days after the insertion
Of the vaccine lmyph, there is scarcely any
thing to be seen:at the pointof Introduction.
On the third day there is al little redness !;
on the fourth or fifth day the yesicle begins
to appear. This vesicle resembles very
small blister filed with cleas wafer. It con-
tinues to enlarge from day TO day, until the
eighth day, Gone week after the first iusers
ton when it measures fsou, quarter to
half an inch across. The Yesicle is lower
at the centre than at the cifcumference.-
The clear lymph is not contained in one
single chamber, but in fen or twelve, or
even fourteen separate cells, SO that one
may be opened by puncture without let.
ting out the entire contents Of the versicle.
Until the ninth day the ssdness around the
vesicle extends to only asmall distance from
it. After this is spreads much farther, and
the areola issforned. This areola is cir
cular red border, which continues to in
crease until the eleventh or twelfth day.
when its color begins to fade. BY this
time brown or mahogany colored crust
has formed oser the vesiole. This becomes
harder, and falls of on the twentieth day.
The scar is less than half an inch in dame
ter, circular, depressd, with well marked
edge, and dotted with little pits (from FIVE
to twelve in number corresponding to the
cells, of the vesicle -.
There is usually some fever on the ninth,
tenth, and eleventh days. Painful swell
lings in the arm-pit begin frequently on
the seventh day.
II. the vaccination be successful, and the
patient be vaccinated iuthe other arm, four
or five days after The frst insertion Of the
virus, the second set ofvesicles, though
SO muchs later, will catch up with
the other, SO that from the ninth day after
the first vaccination, they will closely re-
semble the first set, always being, however,
much smaller. ... .,sgs s
How TO VAcoINATE.-One week after
the insertion of the vaccine, lymph, the
resulting vesicle furnishes imyph OF the best
quality for transfer to other arms. This
is3not an unimportant matter. Physicians
defer vaccination until the tenth
or twelfth day. 10 many Instances, even at
this advanced stage, the purulent lymph
will produce the proper infection, but it is
far more reliable on the eighth day, just one
week after the first insertion.
The yesicle should be carefully punctur-
ed, with; a lancet, needle, knife, or any
other suitable instrument and the clear
transparent lymph which comes forth should
be neatly inserted under the cuticle of the
left arm of the person to be vaccinsted.-
It should be introduced in three or four
places, an inch apart. This introduction
may be affected by pricking the skin with
a needle or making a superficial puncture
with lancet If there be much bleeding,
it is to be feared that the lymph will not
be introduced. With care it is easy to vac.
oinate twenty or thirty persons from one
vesicle--the smallest quantity being sufi.
cient. .., -
On Friday, the 2lst instant, we hope to
be able to supply large amount OF lymph
of the best quality for vaccination. Vac
cinated soldiers will be sent to as many
points as possible on the several railroads
which meet at Atlanta. IF disappointed
in this, they will be sent as soon afterwards
as possible. ~
- VIM. HENRY CUMMING,
Surgeon p. A: G. s.,
Superintendent Vaccination for Depart
ment South Carolina and Georgia.
FREDERICKSBURG The town of Frede-
ricksburg, Va, having suddenly become