The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-01-16
REKACcIYATz0M.


1t has been asserted that during the
epidemic, (small pox), vaccinations is not
certainly preventive. This is not true.
Any instance of effectual vaccination
is as certainly preventive of small pox
as is a previous attack of small pox.
The error is one of observation. It is
not every instance which vaccine matter
has been inserted, and has been follow
ed by a yesiele which passed through
its regular stages that is an effectual
vaccination. Many of them are in
stances of only local affection. Jenner
was emphatic, that to render a person
unsusceptible of small pox, the intro
duction of the cowpox matter must be
followed by local and constitutional
affection. And subsequently observers
confirmed the teaching of the immortal
discoverer of the cowpox. There has
never been but one esteemed rule to de-
termine that the constitutional affection
had occurred The scar, its size, the
extent of areola, or hardness of base
around and of the vesicle, its suppurat-
ing the eighth day, or the detachment
of scab on agiven day, not one has ever
been regarded by those most conversant
with the history of cowpox as evidence
of immunity-as evidence that the in
dividual has been successfully vaccinat-
ed. Hence the occurrence of so many
cases of varioloid, or small pox, in per-
sons who had been Intellectually vacci-
mated. And hence the necessity of re-
vaccination on the part of every person
upon whom Bryce's test of effectuaI
vaccination had not been applied. He
was practitioner of medicine in Scot
land during the early years of this cen
tury, and gave to the subject of vacci-
nation close observation, extensive ex-
perimentation and profound considera-
ton. He demonstrated, and it has since
been confirmed, that if the local and
constitutional effect of the COW pox mat
ter exist, a re-intreduction of lymph a
few days after primary vaccination viii
occasion a second vesicle, and the first
and second vesicles VIII maturate at the
same time, and both viii die away to-
gether. If the second vesicIe goes
through all the stages of the first vesi-
Gle, it is proof that the first vesicle pro-
duced only local affection. Without
surety that the matter is pure COW pox,
and without Bryce's test, revaccination
is an absolute necessity, and ought to
eeompelledi not voluntarily practised
THE MOUNTAINS OF COLORADO
The mountain ranges of Colorado
cover an area of from GO, 900 to 10000
sqnare miles. This includes bodily the
entire territory east of this points. All
Switzerland covers but 10000 square
miles, or to be. accurate. 200. The
fact is Switzerland, compared to Colo
RADIO, is as one of the little wooden toy
cOWsto a living buffalo. You can take up
the whole little State, and set it down
in either the Middle. or South Parks,
wIUiIytlJ t,,-v.el-;--s, tI.- 1e IT,
tains which wall in these grand and sin
gular enclosures. These parks are each
of them from 1000 to $4,000 square
miles in extent, and the San Luis is
nearly as large all three.
So as to magnitude, which is GER
tainly an element of mountain scenery
as to pure scenic beauty, of course the
evidence cannot be reduced to figures,
but it is reasonable to suppose that this
vast expanse of gigantic ranges, endless
cannops, bottomless gulches; with its
lake swung II, 600 feet in air and its cas-
cades and icy waterfalls still higher
with its eternal SHOWS and preadamite
stone forests of tropical effloresence--
offers all of picturesque and Wild effects
that any other land or region can claim.
Call Switzerland the % miniature Colo
RADIO of Europe" ifyou please, but let
us have done forever with the other
phrase, which has no meaning itself,
and is a detraction of our own land,