The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1872-03-21
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lasi nos the subject al aAIPax
aad vaccination has bes interest IS
cor vicinity aad ,ho following remarks
from a contemporary may b. 81 cuciit
Ccrtain i Is tina, ,be spread 81 tics
disease Ia the past tw0 81 three years
has bccb mostly lHc Is tbe neglect ~
proper vaccination.
Pronounce ncditaiiycly The name ~
Jeuner said ColcnIge enc II that a. .
miu.tlc DOCTORS contemporaries ana
thcn. we may add, reflect that Jcnners
discovery by which millions Of lives
have been saved within the last 50
years has only been ia common nee
since this century began. Jcunor was
born ia l7ie, the same year with
Goethe. whose intellectual vaccination,
though no, always as beneficial, has
been almost a. universal as the English
physicians quilts and scabs il was
Of the farmers aud dairy-maiis In his
native county Of Gloucester. famous
for is cheese, that young Jenner learn
ed the preventive virtues Of the kline
poS, aud for twenty years, from l77G
10 1926, when vaccination WAS intro
duccd into the London hospitals he
was investigating aud experimenting
on his great discovery. Before 1900,
nearly one-teuth Of al who died in
Europe were victims Of the smallpox,
which annually carried of about 5000
in every million Of the population. This
would give more than $4,000 deaths a
year. Ia England alone, from this
disease, but for Jenners discovery. In
fact, less than 5000 now die Off it, SO
that vaccination, imperiectly as it has
been performed, saves the lives Of
eleven persons for every one who dies
Of smallpox. Before Jenner's day the
smallpox was worse than the plague,
now it is comparatively harmless.
just at present, however, this disease
is alarming the people again, in this
country and in Europe II has ragged
within the last two years. at Paris, in
London, in Philadelphia, in New York
and in Massachusetts,, with something
resembling, though by no means APP
preaching its old yirulence. DR.. /
WheeIwright, the visitor TO the sick
state poor Of Massachusetts,, reports
that IN 1871 about tenth part of the
1885 patients on his list in all parts Of
the state, were smallpox cases, and
we all remember how it prevailed at
Holyoke aud at Lowell. 1t now seems
that its prevalence has been chiefly due |
10 a neglect of vaccination, and especi-
ally Of reyaccination, upon which Jen- |
ner insisted more strongly than most
Of his successors have done. Jenncr
advised that vaccination should be re-
pcated as long as any effect was pro-
duced and when il would no longer
take, he Beloved that the subject was
almost perfectly protected from the
smallpox. as much so as If he had
once had the disease itself. II is
found that about one person in hun
dred will take smallpox the second
time aud not more than that proper
ton, according to Jenner Wheelwright
and the New York physicians will take
the smallpox after thorough reyaccina-
ton. These New York physicians,
among whom are Drs Elisha Harris,
Stephen Smith, H. r. Peaslec and AL
fred G. Post have published areport of
some length on the subject Of vaccina.
ton and reyaccination, and their facts
aud suggestions are Of great value just
now.
il was owing 60 the ignorance and
slothiulness OF men, says Prof. Bacon
Of New Haven that Jenncr's discovery
did not accomplish what he fully ex-
pcclcd the determination Of small pox
from civilized society If this ID true,
Il is partly the ignorance and slothful.
ucss Of docto 10 which it must be as
cribed, ior much Of the recent outcry
against vaccination AS carrier Of 9TH
or disea es is due TO the malpractice Of
men who have undertaken TO perform
vaccination. The New York physicians
do not deny that syphilis has some
times been conveyed by an unskillful
vaccination. though they say it rarely
happens. II is not SO rare, probably,
that vaccination is performed from i'm
pure or corrupt, q virus, producing very
had results as "a well known case
at Westiord near Lowell few years
ago. BIT when skillfuliy performed.
there can be 40 doubt 10 spite Of lrof
Newman aud the auti-yacciuatOrs that
Jcuners method introduces 40 new
disease. Ia reg ard 20 this Tie New
York physicians are foil and precise
They declare that the famous English
yaeciuators Or. Marson, ia 80 ,0g0 vac.
ciu4tion IF Lcese. Ia as many more;
sir William Jenuer IN ID, 600 sick ehii
drcn and adults 10 London, aud DR.
West ~ the children's hospital ID 20