The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-03-08


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THE G0W-POX. vs.. SMALLPOX.
How the Vaccin Natter is Manufactur-
ed.
DR.. Henry A. Martin, of Boston,
some time ago took up the bust
ness of furnishing physicians with
lymph for vaccination purposes,
derived directly from heifers inoc-
ulated with the eow-pox; he finds
the business growing greatly on
his hands and the lymph extraor-
dinarily in demand, SO that he has
given up all his time and energies
to this speciality. What would
seem at first thought, the least
possible source of inconvenience,
has proved to DR.. Martin the most
troublesome, that is. to secure q
sufficient and constant supply of
animals. For the purpose ofvac-
cination and the constant supply
of lymph,
HEIFER CALVES
of three to six months old are u.s.
ed, and the utmost care observed
to select only the healthiest and
most suitable individuals. This
'necessitates supply of about 300
per year, at present, and soon dou-
BILE that number viii be required.
A semi-satirical paragraph in a
New Yerk paper, recently repre-
scented that DR.. Martin has
"shaved the abdomen of a calf
and keeps the unhappy creature
in state of unceasing yarioloid."
This not only untrue, but impossi-
BILE. A re-vaccination on a heifer
which has recently enjoyed term
of the cow-poxwould be as inaffec-
tive as similar operation on 8
craven image.
THE TERM OF DISEASE
in the bovine less than two weeks
and only from the sixth to the
seventh day are the postules al
the state required for the collection
of lymph. Accordingly a fresh
animal has to be brought into req.
uisition for each successive inocu.
lation. The room in which the
hsifers are kept is light, warm and
airy5a perseeily finished room
indeed, with plastered walls and
ceiling, and the stalls are built
with as great regard to comfort
and neatness as those of gentle
mans stable. Dry sawdust ID
furnished for bedding, and the
best hay with meal mashes fol
food. Under the large south
window stands peculiar "opera
ting table" with a top which folds
down, two projecting arms ther
comingto the floor, as if forming
extra legs. The heifer selected il
then lea out, placed alongside THU
table, and its fore feet secured by
fastening already attached 70 ont
arm, and its hind legs in like man
ner to the other, A stout belt en-
circles its body and the fiat top o
the table, and halter and neck
strap holds its head in place a
one corner. Then the whole to,
| is tilted up to place and secured
and the bovine martyr to scienc
IS recumbent on one side upol
tie t OPP of the table. A portion O
its abdomen, about the slid oftw,
full grown hands, is then shavet
clean, and the vaccin virus from
another heller, at the seventh da,
of the disease, is inserted in littl
punctures arranged In rows 81
inch apart each way.
i The table top is again cantet
down and the little beast release,
and installed till
SIX OR SEVEN DAYS AFTER.
when it's vesicles are ripe for tn
supply of lymph to another heife
and the human race in general.
is then replaced on the table, an,
the operator taking a box OF SINAI
ivory points, prepared for that pun
pose, rack for the same to DIR
on, and pair of peculiar-shaped
slim pliers, seats himself at tn,
: side of the table. With the plier
he gently squeezes each pustule il
turn, and, as the lymph oozes fort
carefully collects if on the ivor
points. From good yielding ami
NAL several hundred points can b
charged. This done the heifer re
turns tCsher stall and remains
few days longer, whez the "crusts
having matured are carefully take
off and mounted" in gutta perch
for the use ofthose physicians VIII
prefer this form of administration
. The heifer then, having fullfille,
its mission in the cause Of science
RETURNS TO PRIVATE LIFE.
The operation is conducted wit
such care as to avoid unnecessar
suffering or even Inconvenience t,
the animal, that it frequently eoe
to sleep on the table and does NO
evince any pain.
Two agents of the society 70
the prevention of cruelty to AM
mails recently visited DIR. Martir
and after seeing the whole process
4 declared themselves satisfied tina
no cruelty was inflicted The ivor
points after being charged and be
coming dry, are carefully put III
ten in bunch, and wrapped wit
cotton fiber. Then white paper j
wrapped around them, and lastl
rubber tissue, which is sealed 3
at the end, producing q water-tigh
and alright package.
4 THESE ARE PACKED
n any desired guam tity and shir
ped to fill orders. Some idea q
the extent of the doctors bushes
In the supply of pure cow-po
q points" and tscrusts" can b
gained from the fact that on FIR
day 1000 were shipped to Washing
ton, d. c., to the Board of Healt
making $500 points furnishe
that city, where, through tn
ineficiency of the old virus, pee
pie had entirely lost their faith 1
vaccination and smallpox wa
spreading, but since the introdue
ton of the animal vaccine th
most wonderful results have bee,
reached-and that he is supplying
st. Louis. San Francisco and owe
two Thousand other cities an,
towns in this country, beside
leQions of physicians in nrivaf
practice.