Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-02-22
How Vaccine IS Procured.

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perform the work The Sun gives the
following particulars of how the virus
is procured from the calves
DR.. Jones. the State vaccine agent,
who is required to furnish vaccine virus
to all ply sicianS in the State, has been
engaged for sometime in inoculatin9
calves. and thus obtainiug the best and
most etficacious Kind Of virus, in tie
opinion of many Of the medical profess
: ion. for vaccination. DR.. Jones, has,
within the past two weeks, for greater
convenience, removed the scene of his
operations on calves. from his place, a
few miles in the country. on the York
+ Road. to Stockman's Stables, near Mar
KIT Marsh space, in this city y num-
Der OF gentlemen. including Mr. John
r. Morris, president of the board of
school commissioners, visited the sta
bles Saturday afternoon, and witnessed
the modus operaaH Of procuring the
virus In the form of lymph from the
calf, as it is called, before incrustation
takes place.
Upon entering the stable, the calf,
about six months old, was seen lying
upon its back on i bed made Of a table
placed with its feet upwards on boxes.
/ The Ices of the animal were secured to
the table, aud it lay entirely quicSccnt.
About forty incsions had been male.
virus inserted in this subject in the
neighborhood Of the Uddcr, on the 22d
ult.. and on the 29;h the doctor began
t. obtain lymph Fifteen of the iuocu-
;ons took, about the same proper
tons as take in human NEGOTIATIONS.
The doctor. with 4 box Of the quillS
properly cut at hand, covered them with
the lymph at the rate often per minute.
lie had been thus employed some hours
each lav since Wednesday, There is 4
certain stage at which the lymph is
most energetic, and the inocula;ions
are examined frequently that each may
be availed OF at the right time. The
calf is always made Slightly sick by the
inoculatiouS.
DIR. Jones has supplied 1,40) physi-
clans in the city and State the past year
The virus used by him is obtained from
the vaccine department OF the New
York dispensary The non-humanized
cow-poX discovered at Beaugency, III
France. in 1866, and has never passed
through the human system. One Of the
advantages of animal vaccination is that
it enables the vacciuator to he certain
that he runs no risk of unwittingly con
yeying the faint Of any other disease.
In 1913, DR. Jenner, in England,
published treatise to show that COW
pox could be propagated by inoculation,
and that tie inocuiatcd disease posse, sed
the same prophyIatic or preventive
power as the original disorder. He had
observed it's effects in cases of accident
al contact with the fingers, when the
cuticle had been removed, of milkmaids
| in Worcestershire, England. As is
known, the value of the discovery was
at first warmly contested, but it has at
length obtained very general, though
not universal assent. Cases Of sponta-
neous cowpox are quite rare, but the
one referred to as occurring at Beau
gency has been made generally ayaila-
ble. The virus thus obtained has been
kept mp by an unbroken series Of calf
NEGOTIATIONS at the New York Dispen-
sary, and at similar institution in Bos-
ton. The inoculations there are prac-
ticed on healthy calves at least twice a
week, and an untailing supply offresh
virus is thus obtained. DR.. Jones's calf
NEGOTIATIONS are not kept up so cOntinu-
ouSv, but when the series is broken. he
always procmes fresh virus from the
New York Institutions
A SAD STORY OF BEREAVEMENT =
The Petersburg Appeai says: We
give below a bona fde and literal copy
of letter received few days since by
a gentleman of this city, from one of
the noble mothers OF Virginia, who gave
her all to the defence of the South. The
letter is so simple, and yet so tender
and eloquent that we leave it to make
its own impression without comment;
only adding our prayer that after these
long years of tond expectation and ear
nest longing, her absent darling may yet
be restored to his mother eyes and arms.
Mr.. Editor Please send me the pa
per for another year. | don't know
how | could DO without seeing a paper
every day. 1t may be an old womans
fancy, but somehow | am not yet hope
less that shall hear something tocheer
my last days. Ny bright, manly boy
William, LETT me in 81 to join the Con
federate army. He was then l7-my
only Loy-and from then till the battle
of Gettysburg | saw him twice and
heard from him often. In that dreadful
battle he was left wounded on the bat
tlefell. His fate know not, but read
the papers every day,hoping that may
gain some tidings of him. | hope on,
and still hope that he may be alive. The
shadows are growing longer, and the
dark river is rolling nearer and nearer
to me, but beyond the light grows brigh-
ter William may be there. am wait
ing fol my Masters call. Yours, &c.
\ bill has been introduced in the
House of Delegates of Virginia, prOpo-
sing to incorporate Messrs. VIM. Il.
Denny, F. W. NJ. Holiday, /. y.
Huck, George ". Ward, II. W. Thorn.
as and Others, under the name and title
of the "Vrginia Mining, Manufacturing
and Transportation Company, to meet
in Winchester, to organize for the pur-