New-York tribune., 1872-01-20
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ABSTRACT OF DIR. join 5. PhHRYS LECTURE ON
VACCINATION BEFORE THE SOCIAL SCIENCE
ASSOCIATION IN PHILADELPHIA, JAN. Is,

ABSTRACT OF DIR. join :. PAHRY'S LECTURE ON
YACCINATION BEFORE THE SOCIAL SCIENCE
ASSOCIATION IN PHILADELPHIA, JAN TO-
1872.
In the middle Of September, fS1i, 1t first
began to be apparent that smallpox the Increase
IN ts city, and that the grave sspicons which phy.
scans had for some time entertained that IL would be-
come an epidemic, would soon be realized Al has been
usual with other epidemic diseases this one found our
health authorities totally unprepared for Its reception
and tonight We look back long array 0i broken
home circles and sum UP bitter expcrcncc-an eS-
percnce which In the more distressing because
large number OF the lives lost sacrificed OH tho
affairs Of Insmanagcmcnt, prejudice and ignorance
Before the introduction OF vaccination npout
"a per those who were stricken WIN sniPoA
nershed The Board Health assert that the nottaiy
of the present epidemic is lG cent This IL too hgh
by at least 10 per cent for smallpox IL now an nnecoh
which almost under human CONTROL ana majority Oh
the lives lost by it wanton sacrces Tor "heh the
pubc authorities should be held responsible Tho fact
at between Sept J. 1871 and Jan. 10. 1872 ABOUT 1000
persons died Of strictly preyentbe disease In this en-
Ightened city, and that this nothing remarkable
according the sanitary gospel Of certain commercial
authorities ia something which scientific men cannot ap
precate Truly the estimated value OF human lie Il
very low when can be summed up III dollars and cents
by misery moDey-chanSers.
OF virus could be obtained. One foreign nrtice,
and utterly worthless the others were from Boston
and New-YOrk The speaker successful with tho
virus from Boston, but failed with that from New York.
The bovine lymph when IL Is successfully Introduced IL
very severe In s action and this is serious oeco to
it's general adoption. After bovine virus has been trans
mtcd through the systems OF several ineInDes OF tue
human family It becomes much mider in Its effects and
much Certain 10 its results without having lost any
Of Its specific qualities the authorities agree Una. Win
good human virus and exercising all duo degree or care
vaccination should not be unsucccssu III more than one
in every i'e Insertions the amount OF ignSrance IN re-
gard to vaccination is truly surprising Inc result -
that the operation Is often imperfcctly performed
and % only ,patan Pr ardsd Sy aecnHon
much with the manner in which the operation is per
formed II properly done II IS almost absolute No
child should bo vacnated in less than four places and
I'm the performance Of this operation no physician should
allow himself to DO influenced by maternal sympathy
OF 5000 postvaccinal cases OF smallpox .aDnated py
Mr. Smon 81 per cent died among those who were sad
per cent those who had cicatrx, ~ per cent OF
those having two per cent OF those having t1ree ana
ccs while 3 per cent Of those who mover had been vac
cinatod died Of unmodied smallpox
Most persons Will have a sore arm from vaccination
twice In their ives-once during infancy aud second
time Immediately after the l4h or 18TH year The pOpu
newed every years is unsupported by any facts
whatever. Re-vaecination IL important, and should
ton has not Increased the mortality from other diseases
such as scrofula and consumption; on the contrary
miSit be developed in them II they were attacked by
smallpox No proof be furnished that scrofula is
ever transmitted with vaccine virus. After an expert
of three-quarers OF century IN an pIisH H tto
civilized world physicians arc certainly 9uailed 70 70
pn ~ Consider Ills danger but trng and al
ways due carelessness With properly selected virus
there Is no danger at all.
Unless somefmng is speedily done 10 arrest the pro-
grcss OF the epidemic II may be prolonged a. IN London
for more than year. Three measures are important
/ Complete and thorough isolation Of persons affected
by the disease Perfect dsinfection OF the homes and
effects OF those who i'll with IL. g. Systematic yactl
alton and vaccination, hCh should Do made conpu
aory This Is plain statement OF the varioa epidemic
m Philadelphia in 1871 epidem about which accord
ing TO the public papers and our commercial anthOr
tics nothing must be said done for fear OF creating
manic and driving business from the city For this NOR
bid public confidence have truly paid eart price
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