South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-02-14
How Vaccine Virus is Procured

In Baltimore, the Councils have passed AN or
dinauce requiring every person to be vaccinated
under penalty of $40, and have detailed ply
sicians to perform the work The Sun gives the
following particulars Of how the virus is procur-
ell from calves
DIR. Jones the Stats vaccine agent. who I, 70.
qnired to furnish vaccine virus to all physicians
in the State, has been engaged for some time in
inoculstng calves and thus obtaining the best
and most eHcatious kind of .irus, in n, opin-
ION OF many OF the medical profession, for vacci-
nation. DR.. Jones has, within the past two
weeks, Tor greater convenience, removed the
scene OF his operations on calves from his place.
a few miles in The country, on the York road. to
StocHman's stables, near Marsh Market space. in
this city. number OF gentlemen, inclnding
Mr. Johu T. Morris president Of the board of
public school commissioners visited tho stables
Saturday afternoon and witnessed the n,o9H.
operdr!i Of procuring the virus in the form Of
lymph from tue calf, MS 1t is called, before in
crustation takes place
Cpou entering the stable tho calf abou, six
month"; old, was seen lying upon its back on a
bed made Of a table placed with the feet upwards
on ho1es. The legs Of the animal were secured
10 the table, and tsy entirely quiescent Abou t
forty incsious had been 10 Ade and viru, insert
I'd n this subject in tho neighborhood Of the I'D .
der, on the 22d nit aud on the goth the doctor
began to obtain lymph Fifteen Of the uocula.
tons took, - about the same proportion ~ tnke
10 human REGULATIONS The doctor. with a box
Of the qulls properly cut At hand, covered them
with the lymph at tho rate OF ten per minute
lie had been thus employed some hours of each
day since wednesday There is certain stage
al which the lymph ia most energetic, and tie
NEGOTIATIONS are examined frequently that each
msy he availed Of n The right time The calf is
slwsys made slightly sick by the inocuIatious
DR.. Jones has supplied 400 physicians in the
city and State the past year. The virus used by
him is obtained from the vaccine department Of
the New York dispenssry. The non humanized
cow oX virus thus furnished is directly descend q
Cd through An unbrokcn series Of calf inocuIs.
tons, still kept up, from the celebrated case Of
spontaneous COW poV discovered ut Beaugeucy
in France, ia 500, and has never passed through
the human system. One Of the advantages Of
animal vaccination is that IL enables the vacci-
aator 20 he certain that he runs no risk Of unwit-
tingly conveying the faint 81 any other disease
Ia 1893, Dr. Jennor, in England, published a
treatise TO show that COW pox could be propa-
gated by inoculat on, and that the inoculated
disease possessed the same prophylacUc or pro
vendve power as the original disorder lie had
observed its effects 10 cases Of accidental con-
tact with The fingers, when the cuttlc had been
removed, Of milkmaids in Gloucestershire Eng
land. "A iS known, the value Of The discovery
was st FIRST warmly contested but IL has at
length obtained very general, though not uni
versal assent Cases Of spontaneous COW poK
are quite rare, but The one referred 10 as occur
ring at Bsaugency has been made generally n
vailsble. The virus thus obtaiued has been kept
up by an uutroken series Of calf NEGOTIATIONS at
the New York Disponsary, aud AZ a similar in
stitntion in Boston The NEGOTIATIONS there are
practiccd on healthy calves 81 least twice a week
and an unfai.ing supply Of fresh virus is thus
Obtained. Dr.. Jones calf NEGOTIATIONS arc not
kept up % continuously, but when tie series is
broken, he always prOcurcs fresh virus from the
New York Institutions
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