Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-03-22
The CowPox.
HOW THE VACCINE MA TIER IS
MANUFACTURE ED.
rFrom the Springfield Republican

TFrom the Springfield Republican,
DR.. Henry A Martin, Of Boston
who some time ago took up the bust
ness Of furnishing physicians with
lymph for vaccination purposes, deriv-
ed directly from heifers inoculated with
the cow pox, finds the business growing
greatly ON his hands, and the lymph
extraordinarily in demand, so that he
has given up all his practice save sur
gerry and vaccination, and devotes all
his time and energies to this specially.
What would seem. at first thought, the
least possible inconvenience, has proved
to DR.. Martin the most troublesome:
that is to secure a constant supply OF
animals. Fer the purpose of vaccine
ton and the supply Of lymph only heif-
err calves of three or six months old are
used, and the utmost care is observed
to select only the healthiest and most
suitable individuals. This necessitates
a supply of about three hundred per
year, at present, and soon double that
number will be required. A semi-sa-
tirical paragraph, in a New York pa
per, recently represently that Dr. Mar
tin has "shaved the abdomen of calf
and keeps the unhappy creature in
state of uncasing varioloid., This is
not only unture but impossible. A re-
vaccination on heifer which has re-
Gently enjoyed term Of the COW pox
would be as Ineffective as similar OPP
Grafton On craven image. The term
of the disease in the bovine is less than
two weeks, and only from the sixth to
the seventh day are the postules at the
state required for the collection of the
lymph. Accordingly fresh animal is
brought into requisition for each sue
cessive incubation. The room in which
the heifers are kept is light, warm and
airy, perfectly finished room, indeed,
with plastered walls and ceiling, and
the stalls are built with as great care to
comfort and neatness as those of a gen
tleman's stable. Dry saw-dust is fur
nished for bedding, and the best hay,
with meal mashes, for food. Under
the large south window stands peculiar
Operating table," with top which
folds down, two projecting arms then
coming to the floor, as if forming extra
legs. The heifer selected is then laid,
placed along this table and its fore feet
secured by fastenings already attached
to one arm and its hind legs in like
manner to the other. A stout belt en-
circles its body and the fiat top of the
table, and halter and neck strap holds
its head in place at one corner. Then
the whole top is tiled up to the place
and secured, and the bovine martyr to
science is recumbent one side upon the
top of the table. A portion of its alb
domen about the size of two full grown
hands, is then shaven clean, and then
vaccine virus from another heifer, at
the seventh day of the disease, is in
serted in little punctures arranged in
rows an inch apart each way. The ia
BILE top is again eanted down and the.
little beast released and installed till
six or seven days after, when its vesicles
are ripe for the supply eflymph to an
other heifsr, and the human family in
general. It is then replaced on the ia
BILE, and the operator taking a box of
small ivory points, prepared for the
purpose. rack for the same to dry on,
and pair of peculiar shaped, slim PHI
ers, seats himself at the side of the la
Bile. With the pliers he gently squeez-