, 1869-02-05
cet Good vaccine Matter.


EblroR STATESMAN When vaccine matter has
passed many times from one person to another,
The matter loses portion Of its protective power
Then the question arises, how can it be RENE
died? The answer is plain aud easy--take some
matter from q mans arm and vaccinatA COW,
and then you have the fresh matter. This plan
has been practiced ever since the DAYS of the
great Edward Jenner Any one can tind the
whole subject narrated and discussed by DR..
Baron, in his interesting biography of Edward
Jenper, who 6tst discovered the cow.pox from
the pesantry Of Worcestershire. England. in
1896 The l4th day of May, 1896, was the birth.
day Of vaccinations on that day matter was
taken from the band Of Sarah Nelmes. who had
been infected by her masters cows, and inserted
BY two superficial incisons into the arms of lanes
Phipps, a healthy boy OF about eight wears of
age. He went through the disease apparently in
a regular aud satisfactory manner; but the 10 ost
agitating part OF the trial still remained TO be
performed. 1t was ueedful to ascertain whether
be was secure from the contagion of small. pox
This point, SO full of anxiety to DR., Jenner. was
fairly put to issue on the FIRST of the following
July; variolcus matter, Immediately taken from
pustule, was carefully inserted by several in.
cisious, but no disease followed MANY were the
objections made at that time to vaccination /;
some very foolish, as that it was unnatural and
impious, to engraft the disease Of a brute upou
Christian others, that it introduced into the
system new disorders, distinct from the COW pox
1t triumphed over all these cavils and in six
years from its first promulgaton, the discovery
was known In every region of The world. From
the reports OF the leading physicians of Europe
and America, it is impossible to doubt the pros
priety OF vaccination. II is during epidemic,
smallpox particularly that the utility Of Vacci-
nation becomes obvious. The following is the
answers given BY the competitors for the prize
to the questions proposed BY the Academy of
Science Of France, on the 25th of February, l845,
by the Committee on Vaccination, to which were
referred the various essays sent in by the com
petitors for the prize
l. The preservative power of vaccination is ab-
solute for the majority and temporary for a small
number, and even 10 the latter it is absolute un,
til adolescence.
2. Small pox rarely attacks those who have
been vaccinated in infancy, before the age of 10
or IL years, from which age, however, until 80
or 80, they are particularly liable to small pox
3. 10 addition to its protective powers, vacci-
nation 50 modiies the animal economy that il
attenuates the symptoms of small pox, abridges
its devastation, and considerably dimnishes its
danger.
4. Vaccine matter taken direct from the COW
causes local symptoms of greater intensity its
effects are also more certain than those of all
vaccine matter, but alter being transmitted tor
few weeks through the human subject the local
intensity disappears.
D. The preservative powers of vaccine matter
does not seem to be intimately connected with
the intensity of the symptoms of vaccination I;
nevertheless, it is prudent to regenerate vaccine
matter as frequently as possible 10 preserve its
protective power.
6. The only mode of regenerating vaccine,
deserving of confidence, is to procure it from
the COW
7. Revaecinaton is the only known method
OF distinguishing those vaccInated persons that
remain protected from those that do not.
8. The success of vaccination is not a certain
proof that the person in whom it succeeds was
liable to contract small. pox it merely estab~
lishes toleraoly strong presumption that they
were more or less liable to be so.
8. 10 ordinary periods revaccination should be
practlced after fourteen years, but sooner, as al,
ready remarked during an epidemic.
For smallpox the treatment should not be
beating, but cooling, antiphLogistie. Try and pre-
vent too many eruptious from coming out upon
the body by purging, diuretics, diaphoretcs,
expectorants, &C., cool acid drinks, as the fevers
are most always synochus but when it is of a
typhoid type, more nourishing diet, and wine
aud tonics are necessary. The room must be
kept cool and quiet. When the extremeties are
cold, warmth must be applied to the feet and
hands, and often it is necessary to apply cold
ice water to the head. 0piates at night, to keep
them rom scratching, aud cold cream to the
scratched surface, is necessary. The pustules
can be opened with lancet on the second day,
and then touched with lunar costic to prevent
irettiog, bat not after the second day.