Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-11-22
WISCELLA NEOUS.
A NEW TREATMENT FOR SMALL POX.

In a communication to the Union Free
P,ess, DR.. J. N. Taylor says:
Having but little experience in the
treatment of small pox, | feel some diff
dence in taking the present course to call
the attention of the profession and the
public to peculiar remedy for this loathe-
some disease, which | redard as a spcci-
fc, as much so as quinine in ague; but
as | do not see any notice of it in the
papers, aud as the disease appears to be
spreading rapidly in various portions of
our country, consider it a duty to draw
the attention of the public to it.
In the American Journal Of Medical
Science, October, 1857, page 552, will be
found a communication from X. Landell,
NJ. D., of Porte Allegro, Brazil, in which
he advocates the internal administration
of vaccine virous, in the treatment of
small pox.
Being impressed with the idea that the
treatment was rational, determined to
give it trial the first opportunity.
Gu the 18th of December, 1859, was
called on TO visit child near two years
of age, labOring under small pox, the
pustules being tifst observed by her pa
parents on the 10th, two days previous
to my first visit. ] first gave dose of
calomel and rhubarb sufficient to operate
moderately on her bowels then, after
obtaining the sanction of her parents,
put one quarter of good sized crust of
vaccine virus into sixteen teaspoc nfuls of
water, and directed one teaspoOnful to be
given every three hours. On The 2lst,
three days after commencing the remedy,
the pustules had a shriveled appearance,
and on the Oath, six days from my first
visi', tie pustules were so completely /
abated that | considered my patient out
of danger and quit visiting her. All the
medicine this child took in addition TO
the above was some mild laxative every
second day when necessary. From the
number of pustules on this child (not .
protected by vaccination) | have no
doubt she would have been a serious if /
not fatal case under any other treat
mont Two years after treating the above
case had an opportunity of examining
her, and could not find pit or a mark on
her person.
Since the foregoing case, similar treat
ment, on three dif',reut occasions, has
been attended by like satisfactory results
do not suppose any injurious effects
would follow much larger doses, and by
observing the difference between large
and small doses in the rapdity of recov-
cry, would soon determine the quantity
best adapted to ordinary cases. | think
the remedy should be resorted to as soon
as possible in the disease. One person
administering the vaccine virus by my
directions, assured me that wherc the
virus was given in the fever before the
pustules appeared thoy never developed.
The only precaution necessary in ad
ministerng the vaccine virus is to have a
good article, to mix only so much at once
as will last one or two days, and keep it
in cool place, to prevent it from becom
ing putrid and offensive.
Now is the time to test DR.. Landelrs
suggestion, and have no doub: the YER
dict will place him as a benefactor of the
human race alongside of Jenner.
would like to give my theory of
therapeutic action of the remedy, but
this has required TOO great a length al
ready.
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