Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-02-07
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Vaccination.

A. the inquiry i made Of me ulm0sl
every day. :. Do / heed to be r,yaeeiua,
ted = aud, " Hos long will the proiee.
ton last ?" thought | would ansEer
those questions with some Others that
might very properly BE made through the
columns Of our local papers. aud in % do.
Ing place the facts within the reach Of all.
DIR Jenner, Of Berkeley, Gloucester.
shire, England. promulgated this discovery
10 1873, after n series Of experiments
and observations extending over a period
Of 20 years. aud Of al the benefaeiors
who have ever lived no one has conferred
On mankind such immense aud lasting
benefits.
la 1893 the practice Of vaccination
was introduced into THE country by Ben
jamin Waterhouse of Boston, the first pro-
irssor Vt medicine in Harvard, notwith.
standing the existence OF a strong pryju-
dice against il.
Dr. Flint Saws, " certain interesting
questions relate to the nature and source
Of COW pOx. Did it originate IN the COW.
or come from the human species' Does
II effect ether animals What are its
essential relation TO smallpox?
With respect 10 these questions. facts
have shown eonclusively that yaeciuia in
the COW may be produced by incubation
with the smallpox virus taken from man,
aud that the disease produced in the COW.
transferred TO man, gives rise to vaeeinia
in the latter.
These experiments have been repeated. |
ly performed in different countries
Vaccine virus obtained in this way has
been extensively used in vaccination and
IT has been found efflcien, in preventing
smallpox.
There are undoubtedly many persons
in all communities who are relying solely
Tor protection on vaccination performed
BY an unskilled person, and although they
nay have bau Il sore arm, and been quite
lnwell at the time, with large cicatrix
or witness, the whole thing may have
'een spurious, and they have received no
more protection from smallpox than they
would have it it had never had been done.
Therefore the imperative necessity of
aving those who are qualified and whose
egltimate business it is to do il. Ift i.
forth doing, it is worth dong well.
There are very few men ia the com. f
lnnity but medical men who could select a
ne right vesicles from which to obtain :
heir virus. !
Then again it is just as necessary that
he person from whom the virus is obtain. 1
1 should be free from certain diseases.
nd their antecedants should be able to ;
ear inspection.
One great reason urged by many per.
ms why they do not protect themselves d
nd families by vaccination is The fear o
Iat some other disease will be co:"muni. b.
tied with vaccnia. Now there is not re
e slightest danger when the virus j, tr
Ken from proper persons. and used in Al
'oper manner by those thoroughly com. ag
'ient to do it; while in unskiIlful hands OF
e purest virus may be the cause Of un. GU
Id niSeries aud death.
In large majority of cases vaccination -
operIy done affords absolute protection
ainst smallpox for time, and those -
US protected are as fully protected as N,
ey would be if they had had smallpox tn
incubation or the natural way. WI WI
There is small minority who are only sci
rtlaIIy protected by one vaccination and Dr. Dr.
susceptibility to smallpox is not dis
yed but will be greatly modified. f.,
The only safe way is not only to be hei
'cinattd but to be revaccinated, and TN T..
. Austin Flint advocates the propriety $40.
not the importance Of revaccinatinp ~
n five years. Every one should be
Children in infancy. and -.
IN on reaching the age Of puberty 4
should be revaccnated until it ceases l.
AXE effect then they have an abso-
immunity from smallpox. H.
EIwIN HAHN. in s. s.