Middletown transcript., 1871-11-25
A SPECIFIC FoR sMiLI.-pox.

We find in the kiitanning Pa frer
press Of Nov. Oh, the following canmu-
nication. from an eminent Thysician ni
that place, in regard to latcl, discover
cd specific rcmeuy IN the treatment OF that
most loaihsone aud dangerous disease the
smallpox:
Sin: Having hu, little experience il
the treatment IT smallpox. ! feel some
diiidencc in taking the present course 10
call the attention If the protassinn and the
public to peculiar remedy for this lualhc
some disease, which regard as 4 specific
10 much so ns quininc in ngue but as !
do not see any notice Of II in the papers
and as the dicease appears 70 BE- spreading
rapidly in various portions Of our country.
l consider il duty to draw the attention
Of the public to it.
In the American journal oi Medicil
Sciences. Oct. 1897, page 552, will be
found communication H., m Il. Landcll,
NJ. D., Of Porte Allegro. Brazil, il which
be advocates the internal administrations
of vaccine virus in the treatment Of small
pox.
Being impressed with the idea that the
treatment was rational, determined to
give it a trial the first opportunity,
On tho 18th Of December, 1883, ! was
called on to visit child near two years
of age, laboring un Ter smallpox, the pus.
tulcs being first observed by her parents
a tho 10th, two days previous to my lirst
sisit. first gave a dose OF calonel and
shubarb sufficient TO operate moderately on
L. f. .l., si,,,
tion Of her parents. put one quarter oi
. good sized crus, Of vaccine virus into "
tesspoonfulls of winter, and directed oHt
teaspoonful to he given every three hours
On the 2ls,. three days after eommcnc.
ing the remedy the pustulcs had n shriyel-
cd appearance and on the 9th q days froT
my Arst visit, the pus,ules were so cont
pictely abated that considered my pa.
iicnt out Of danger and quit visiting her
All the medicine this child tool, in addi
tion to the above was some mild laxative
every second day when necessary From
sho number Of pustules. on ,his child, (whC
vas not protected by vaccination, q ha,t
NO doubt she would have been very ser
Gus II not fatal case under any othei
treatment. Two years after treating III,
above case | had an opportunity Of exam
ining her. and could not find pi, or mari
On her person.
Since the foregoing case, similar trca,
mept, on three different occasions, ha
hesn attended by like satisfactory results
do not suppose any injurious eifcc
would follow much larger doses, and b,
Observing the difference between large an,
ANAL doses in tho rapidity of recovery
would soon determine the quantity best a
dapted to ordinary cases. think th
ssnedy should be rcsorted to as soon a
eosoibIc In the disease. One person ad
4iuisteriug tho vaccine virus BY my di
I, sne(ions, assured me that where the viru
- given Ia the fever before the pustule
oopoafcd they never developed.
Il Ihe only prccaution necessary in ad
4 uinloGssing the vaccine virus Is to have
- aftiels, 10 mix only so much at ono
VA 1ast ono or two days, and keep
- 81 plasc, to prevent It from becom
o1sid and ofensivc.
.u.,.ss. -. .lAtte time 70 test Dr. Landclrs sug
IN =, ia I havo no doubt tho. vcrdic
4 n nS0. Hin y ! bcncihctof Of tho hu
z, ~ 1itds of Jcnner.