The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-01-05
TREATMENT OF SMALLPOX.
Emeaey Of Vaccination.

The appearance of smallpox all
over the country gives particular i'm
portance at this time to the experience
in cities where, from the density of
the population, the greater number
of cases have been brought under sci
entiflc observations. The general
voice of professional opinion concurs
in testimony to the efficacy of Vacci-
nation as a preventative. The Phila-
delphia Age says:
''One OF our most eminent phYsi-
clans, Prof. r. A. F. Penrose, of the
University of Pennsylvania, short
time since. in lecture, expressed his
belief that if the vaccination were uni
versally and carefully performed in
this city, there would not be a new
case of small pox. Care must be tax
en-, of course, to see that the vaccine
matter is good, and properly applied.
There are, too, some needless people
who delay vaccination until too late !;
they have received a noxiOus influ-
ence, before or about the time of their
| vaccination, and the evil cannot be
undOne. But the experience of Phil
adelphia is that timely and careful
vaccination deserves every confidence
| that it's most sanguine advocates have
| ever placed on it."
| a correspondent of the Stockton
| (Cal.) Herald furnishes the following
smallpox remedy:
81 herewith append a recipe which
has been used to my knowledge in
| hundreds of cases. It will prevent or
cure the smallpox though the pittings
are filling. When Jenner discovered
| coWpoX iii England, the world of sci
ence hurled an avalanche of fame up
on his head, but when the most scien-
tific school of medicine in the world
that of PaTis-published this recipe
as a panacea for smallpox, it passed
UNDECIDED. It is as unfailing as fate,
and cORquers in every instance. II
! is harmless when taken by well per-
son. 1t will also cure scarlet fever.
/ Here is a receipt as l have used it, and
cured my children OF scarlet fever ;
| here it is as | have used il to cure the
smallpox; when learned physicians
said the patient must die, it cured
Sulpbate Of zinc, one gram, fox glove,
! (digitalis,) one grain half a teaspoon
| full of sugar; mix with two table
spoOnfulls of water. When thorough
| ly mixed, add four ounces Of water.
Take a spoonful every hour. Either
disease will disappear in twelve
hours. For a child smaller doses, &C
cordiDg to age"
In Communication to the kIttan-
| ming Free Press, DIR. NJ. Taylor calls
attention to an article from pen OF
r. Landell, M. ID, of Porte Algre,
! Brazil, published in the Medi"Gt Jour
| nal Of Scteace, of date October, 1857,
| in which he advocates the internal
administration of vaccine virus in the
! treatment of smallpox. DIR. Taylor
then proceeds:
''Being impressed with the idea
| that the treatment was rational, | de-
| termined to give it a trial the first
opportunity. On the 18th of DeCem-
| Der, 1859, / was called on to vi7it
child nearly two years of age, labor
| ing under smallpox, the pustules be-
| ing observed by her parents on the
J 10th, two days previous to my first
visit. l 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 a good sized crust
| of vaccine virus into sixteen teaspoon
| fulls of water, and directed one tea
spoonful to be given every three
| hours. On the 2Ist, three days after
commencing the remedy, the pUstules
| had 8 ghriveled appearance, and the
| oath, six days from my first visit, the
pustules were so completely abated
that considered my patient out of
| danger and qyit visiting her. All
| the medicine this child took in addi-
| ton TO the above was some mild lax
alive every second day when ncces-
| gary. From the number of pusLuies
on this child (nOt protected by vacci-
nation) ] have no doubt she would
| have been serious if not fatal case
under any other treatment. Two
! years after treating the above case l
| had an opportunity of examining
her, and could not find pit or mark
ON her person.
''Since the foregoing case, similar
| treatments on three different occa-
sions, has been attended with like re-
suits. | do not suppose any iDjuri-
Gus effect would follow much larger
| doses, and by observing the differ
ence between large and small doses
| in the rapidity- of recovery, We could
soon determine the quantity best
adapted to ordinary cases. l think
the remedy should be resorted to rs
soon as possible in the disease. One
person administering the vaccine vi
rus by my directions assured me that
where the virus was given in the fe-
yer before the pOstules appeared they
never developed.
THE only precautiOn necessary in
administering the vaccine virus is 10
have a good article, to mix only so
much at once as will last one or two
days, and keep it in a cool place, to
prevent it from becoming putrid and
offensive"