The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1864-03-03

tnat WOuiu nave USscffeu hiuIoSt any Otuer
man from prosecuting the subject any fur.
ther. He met with number Of instances in
which mixers of cows had true small pox.
With great labor, diligence, and patience,
he undertook the solution Of this problem,
and he succeeded. He found that mixers OF
cows were not exempt except in those dairy
establishments where. horses ran with the
oows. The disease in the horse's hoof call.
ed the grease is small pox. and the COW must
take small pox from the horse in order to
give potency to cow pox. This is an i'm
portant element Of Jennor's great discovery.
We wish to impress an invaluable truth at
this point on the public mind With the
good uacciue cirrus noto in use, derived from
Jenner, each man who yaccinates has it in
his power, if he has suitable knowledg ge and
integrity of pn pose, to give to every person
he may vaccinate perfect immunity from all
possibility Of small pox contagion. OF the
myriads vaceinated by Jenner himself, una
ny Of whom are yet living, not one ever had
an attack Of ofvariolous disease. But in Jen-
ner's lifetime there were extensive raids Of
small pox among p.ople who had been vac
oinated by persons who did not understand
the character Of the great benefcence. Jen.
ner's matter continued to be good, not only
during his life, but for the entire life Of each
one that he vaccinated What peakeaea the
matter in the hands of those contemporaries
Of Jenner, whose vaccinations did not secure
their victims against the small pox?Ts it nc t
self evident that Jenner secured all tie enc
cine pirus that he used from all the evils
that negligent oaccindtors permitted to creep
into the matter they usel? And is it not
perfectly evident that these facts hold good
to day IF, in a population Of ten thousand
people, nine thousand nine hundred persons
are, by vaccinations with the present matter,
rendered perfectly exempt from all li,bility
to variolous disease, and the other hundred
vaccinated persons take varioloid disease, IS
the difference Of result in the matter or in
the vacciHators This is the point that
should be indehbly stamped upon the small
pox thoughts Of the people. 1an at'fst ~ass
We repeat the cheering fact that not one of
all the myria Is vaccinated by Jenner ever
had any form of variolous disease, and what
he accomplished can, by the same means be
accomplished by any one capable Of using
those means To few points on this very
important branch of the subject we ask the
attention of the reader: The first Of these is
this there is not now solitary truth
known about vaccination that was not fully
known to Jenner and published by him.
Take striking instance: The last lines
ever written by Jeaner were on varioloid at
tacks then uagins in Scotland. Aletter was
found on the table in the room in which he
died, which called attention to the varioloid
epidemlcs, and the question was asked, "Dc
not these facts shake your faith in your
disco very9 On the hack of the letter was
written this answer. 9'sIf these things had
not occurred, | should have my faith shaken.
I predicted them and the mode Of their oc-
currsnce, in the frat publication I ever
made" Jenner never limited that any other
than one clear;y.tlescrih ID and defined kind
Of fvaccinatioa could confer immmity against
small pox He clearly pointed ont spurious
modes ofv,ccinatinn aad declared tha. they
hnk
he worst varieties OF them mitigate small
pox. The worst form Of 4 variolcii is a less
disease than tile miiest attacks of
small pox. arrF 5rta. rr eau a .aeu,
A man utters a truth when he SAYS thatt
water will extingnish fire. yet a seeming
of the truism NAV be seen
when block Of buildings is burned. while
water is thrown on the fire by hand engines,
bat the truth that water will extinguish FIRE
remains unimpuyued by the seeming con-
tradic'ion. hsaarFsa 3.aa $50 a:zrr M
In order to oosfer the benefits on all man
kind that Jehner conferred on every one
vsccinated bv himself. esery erccinator
should he compelled tn do as Jennsr did. No
ever was or can be safe. that
permits any deviation from .Jenner's plan.
Herein lies the mass of the evil Of variolod-
attacks. II Jenner vaccinatei two children
10. the same family, of the same hiooi, and
same constitution, and found, whsn he, ex !.
smined them on the eigata day, that being
a sine qua non, that one of the vaccinations
had attained ITS largest Dimensions, erin,
,oned coIored ring covering the entire vac.
cine tumor, and measuring from half an inch
20 two inches in diameter, and that the yes
ice had also attained its full size, four lines
Ia diameter. and that the center. which, had
been depressed from the fifth day. has, now
bulged up so as I, he highar than the edges,
and the vesiele is light brown or yellowish
color on the tenth day and is hard and dry, ]
he used the matter. drawn on the eighth day.
But if the other vaccination was Sluggish,
and did not attain the proper change.fo the
eighth day until the tsath or eleventh. he al
ways rejected that matter. The vaccination,
thus tardy, protected that child, but it bad
not potency enough to save others.
All protective; vaccine matter should be
drawn from the vesice thit has reached it's
proper changes on the eighth day, and
should, in all eases be taken on that day and
no other Matter thus taker can be pre-
served in al hs Integrity for from twelve to
tiftecn months, Consequently no eommu-
nifty should ever be without protective vac.
cine virus and every rpeinber Of the com