Daily national Republican., 1864-01-28

An, virns Ia pronasatod from arm 10 arm AMI
ftnn, veal, 20 week. any other wHy OF propa
eating the vaccination is denounced, as I
proves to result in imperfect pustules insuh
cIent to secure protection.
The climax OF perfection Is the ninth day
after the innoculation; on the tenth day lts Ylr
the Is still rotnned II Is, however, apt tC
lessen the success, by formation ofsmaller and
poorer pustules; the eleventh day the matter Is
more ylscid and not so apt for transierence.
The vaccination with a dry scab Is always
more or less dubious, and on that account, In
Germany, scientifically rejected; and l found
this sentence always practically justified. Yet
the Yankees, always great inventors, especial
ly wherea show is momentous, know how TO
meet this Inconvenience of a poor success; they
would scratch a little place of perhaps an
eighth OF an inch sore, and then smear the dis
solved sCab over II; thus the result is a strange
scab, and an extended Inflammation over the
arm, Oflen SO severe that 1t dlsables the patient
for several weeks.
once had chance to inspect number Of
vacclnated recruits on the eighth day after the
innoculation, and was nstonishcd TO see not a
single one among them with regular developed
VAGINA pustulcs. On expressing my dissatis-
faction, got the answer, that such was the
regular way OF performing that operation In
this country, and the operator boasted of his
success, in causing SO nice scabs and so exten-
siye an Inflammation, which he took for the good
effect Of the virus while, to me, they looked
like brandmarks. Such an improper procedure
Is the cause why the vaccination affords SO
faint protection against the contagion Of
smallpox, and that that beneficial discovery
loses It's credit.
In Prussia. the vaccination is generally per-
formed on babies, In the age Of three to siK
months; before three months they might be
found sometimes rather weak to stand the re-
action, while after six months it might inter-
fere with the process OF teething; in later pc
riods of infancy the children are too much
scared by the operation and often unmanagea-
BILE. To bring the children TO vaccination, the
pastor OF each parish has TO furnish the district
physician or surgeon with list of the children
horn during the preceding year, this list; how
ever, Is accessible to any physlclan in the
parish; the police sergeant readily invites The
mothers with their childrento the vaccination,
which is to be performed gratultously, but for
the necessary certificate a trife Is to be paid
amounting TO about an American shilling, vet
every physician gladly embraces this opportu-
n.ty either for establishment or maintenance
of his reputation, about the close of the wear
has to give in his report to the police de.
ment, to givethe district physician chance
to Scertain which of the children are left nm
yaccinated, and TO induce them to be presented
ior the operation which Is performed in the fol-
lowing manner:
We generally used there a very fine lancet.
called vaccination Reedle (any keen, slender
lancet, however, will answer the purpose)
this we dip in the virus oozng from the care.
iully opened pustula and shift It slightly under
the epidermls, causing a little stick mot unlike
ueabitc. An iota Of blood may ooze out from
The little stick, just enough to mark the lancet
point; but the trickling down of the blood is
apt TO wash the virus away and spoil the effect,
Inc poor success of vaccination from scabs Ia
very plausible, as they are the remnants of the
waning disease. On the ninth day the culmI-
nation, the acme of the disease, Is expressed in
slight fever and ain extension Of The areola
surrounding the vaccine pustule to a large
Dlotch around all the yaccinated place.
On the tenth day the fever subsidies, the in
nainmation assauges, the pustules sink down,
us contents get more purulent, and experience
has proved that the propogating virtue is con.
sldorably lcssenedi a vaccination from pustules
ON the eleventh day proves still more insult
cient by causing hardly any fever, and very
small, poor, and rare pustules. This being an
undenlable fact, 1t is plausible that the vaccin-
alton from scabB must be much more dubious.
Where vaccination from arm To arm is incon-
yenient the virus is best caught and preserved
IN little capillary tubes, or on threads OF lint,
OiAen) which may easily be fixed on the stick
wound OF the vaccination needle, and kept in
It's place by small straps of adhesive plaster,
Much more might have been said on this sub
Jecti but would not intrude too much on the
kindness of the Editor, as have already occu.
pied large space in those columns.