Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-02-10
Vaccination.
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bic at by AN EMINENT PHYSICIAN. :.
Id bebs howard JKNNER was the pupil OF
|ial in hnter, one of the most accurate
lest mes of Nature of the last century.
most ASlce to students was: Don't think,
Ill crssyf be patient, be accurate" Jen-
eted, v6ttenti0n was first called TO the SUD-
ling suof vaccination while q student at
hit soruFY, near Bristol, by country
sons q. who stated that she could not take
bak inl.pox, as she had had cow-pox. Ihis
for evious to ITO Prosecuting his
|radua - he afterwards discovered that
shoul1nids in certain district eontracteo
bun sbSenlnr disease Of the hand from the
boil. e. Whieh they called cow.pox. In 1875,
Ees. tori Pc opportunity of testing his the
|or tbdf thfs disease might be communl-
: freoV mother person by incubation,
and r. & as effectual as in the first Mat.
|e frs 3taken from the hand of Sarah
Ekeninle who had been infected by her
shousf8 COWS, and inserted into the arm
lined fsiSs Phipps, boy eight years old.
Shouts The cow-pox regularly, and after
rises. WAS inoculated with smallpox
|rs. IfmsFithout effect. In 1893 he made
the ss1.fhe results of his experiments by
the bsnp a work on Variol@ Vaccine.
|ly remdiG eovery was received like that OF
be- made lon; q few regarded it with favor,
fowls majority rejected it with derision.
hem wty ndations Of success had, however,
karch,- - carefully and accurately laid by
ru1hments of Jenner, to be readily
vod9and vaccination gained rapidly
tural SEASONAL and public favor. Within
1ors it was successfully practiced in
feam or9 of the world, and costly presents
p loaS n upon the discoverer from vari-
Rd, andWfces. Parliament voted him 81 900
(orses the, and subsequently e20,O 900, and
ITS pla.d Scientifc societies honored him
loads Gnbership and medals. Since his
CERTAIN statue has been erected in Ira
|uhar nare. London.
pals, an ylue of vaccination ia seen in the
|mai, AZ le reduction Of the mortality of
fatlgupok in all civilized countries. In
Is limit AGken, not q single death from
Fest tnpd& occurred in the thirteen years
|ms as 1910. In a single German town,
or him Ar of cases of smallpox annually
little 90. md the deaths SO, before vacci.
be vii ~ introduced; in the first year
Pnvlnc thorough vaccination, there were
20 MAJ ca4ks and one death, and Ibr the
the raln6 years there were but four cases,
Inc - eths. Accurate statistics show
fove She smallpox mortality in Trieste
IL VdCCludLlOu pCI4OO ud6 UOCA
g.. y.Ave times less than before in
|laree' Il twenty-one times less; in Silesia,
y.lnine times less in Westphalia,
p Dreatino1s less, and in Sweden, thirteen
z luxul Smallpox has, indeed, lost all
boots - and is now justly regarded as
Plendla a. disease by the great mass of
|oin 70 Re certain prejudices, however,
(fastedo cination has long had to COM
IKE ID hitch are still too frequently met
g ASK fst. It is alleged that it does
sure rotect against smallpox. This
luz "a.u0Swhen vaccination is thorough
tied onr4rped, it is surely preventive.
led wei Il is believed that other diseases
III HAM Communicated by vaccination;
innoc &eruptions which sometimes ap.
pr see 1.-THE operation. In reply, it may
one " that it has been determined by
int ne11 kreful experiments that pure vac-
|pusand u soiN cause only the vaccine disease.
feet am nt of evidence upon this ques.
thJ pnfirming this statement is alb
ted hdd erwhelming. Whenever erup-
|and tel !, they are due to an inherent
eystem, and not to vaccination.
ice mo- q es, tits true, can be inoculated,
Rw, anally Wnen the germs of such disease
y the sell md, it should be added, these
|ivate not contained in the proper
BY ~ mph, even when taken from
bught ~ suffering from an inoculable
they arent, therefore, that vaccine
tune. be performed with great care;
poet selection of pure and ripe vac
wondeay md, second, in the thorough ap-
K mighoM the virus The best age is
|hout IN be third and sixth months-
case of exposure, the opera
hwonan e performed at any age. At
Hes and of infantile life, every child,
Is. She eeption, should be vaccinated.-
|xplainel Home.
"A to days ago three little girls, aged
and tons g, and baby 10 months old,
ahout ger Thomas ansickle, living near
,ed for Nv Union county, Ind, were
e. The to eath. On.the same afternoon.
!. ~ I, We - The same hour, another horror
a the u ANo miles distant from Mr.. Van.
|n n, VIC oaS little child of John White.
|ow se,Sou b, in playing about stove, up.
|.oIved e kettle containing boiling
kh;n1 q the contents were all spilled
i;Lod 4 Unfortunate child, causing its
AAA lew hours