The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-06-09

Vaccination was first practiced in this
country in 1929, and in $500 it reached
France; and in the course of the few
succeeding years it extended to the en-
tire civilized wor
Although vaccination has not SIC
ceeded in annihilating smallpox, as
Jenner, in the zeal natural to a great
discoverer, hoped and promulgated it
would, yet its protection is so nearly
perfect, when properly used, against
one of the most fatal and loathsome
diseases. that the blessing it affords
ought to awaken feeling of thankful
ness in the heart of every one capable
of feeling, as well as a due regard to
the memory of its discoverer.
Drs. Meigs and Pepper, of Philadel-
phia, say: "As to the protective
power of vaccination, we have proof
abundant, in our own experience alone
to satisfy us that this is complete when
properly applied. We have never
seen life lost or the face disfigured
during thirty two years of experience,
i'm any one who had been well vaecin-
ated in infancy aud successfully vac
cinated at puberty.
Df. w clcu Vi
Philadelphia, has in his report to the
Board of Health, of that city, during
the epidemic there in 1912, gives
some facts which show most strikingly
the protective power of vaccination.
At page are given the follovingcss s:
No. 1. Child two years old; vaccin-
ated in infancy; two good cicatrices;
came in with mother who had small
pox; sixteen days in hospital; no
disease.
No. 6. Child ten months old; not
vaeeinated; admitted Feb. 10th, along
with liz mother, who had varioloid,
and whose breast it was nursing; vac
cinated same day; Feb. 10th, two con
vulsions; Feb. nth, perfectly well
again; vaccination taking well; four
teen days in hospital; no disease.
No. 9. Child aged z years; vaeein-
ated six months ago; fair cicatrix;
eleven days in hospital; no disease.
No. 10. Child s years old; vaccin-
ated six months ago; fair cicatrixi
eleven days in hospital; no disease.
At page 12, DIR Welsh states another
interesting fact: ''In this connection
We might add that tho physician in
charge, has two assistants, the matron
who has been connected with the
hospital for twenty-four years-the
chief male nurse, and number OF
others who have been employed in the
hospital during the epidemic, were pro-
tected only by vaccination and revac-
eiuation.- Indeed not a single person
connected with the hospital, who bad
been revaecinated, contracted the
disease; while, on the other hand,
some three or four of the nurses, who
had been affected by small pox pre-
viously, took the disease a second
time"
Now it would appear from this that
revaccination il better protection
than small pox itself. In the British
army where reyaccination Is compul
sorry, there were only three deaths
from smallpox in twenty years in n
force of forty four thousand men. la |
the Bavarian army, not n single death |
from smallpox in fourteen yeass.
These facts might be indefinitely i'll !
creased. How any one can look upon |
them and yet refnse a child the boon
of vaccination is almost beyond our |
comprehension. If they are not con
vinced by such facts as these, they |
would not be convinced though one
rose from the dead.
How long will it protect?
That vaccination loOses its protect
i've power after lapse of time, is now
is indefinite, and probably varies
greatly in different individuals. With
some, one good vaccination in infancy
is a protection for life; with others it
may loose its power in five, ten, twen- |
ty years or more. That is, of 1000 |
persons vaceinated and being exposed |
to small pox within a mouth there
after, none would perhaps contract the
disease. Ifagain exposed In five years, |
q certain per cent. would be likely to |
take varioloid in mild form. If in |
ten years from the last exposure they |
should be again exposed, a greater
severe type, and 80 on. The popular
opinion that it runs out every seven
years Is fallasy. There is no method
of telling whether or not u Person is
protected, except by trying rsvaccin-
alton with matter known to be effect
i've.
This revaccination will exhau.t the
susceptibility to the disease
1t is a good precaution for every per
son exposed to smallpox to tsy revac-
cination. Here arises another Ques
lion.
Will vaccination be any protection
after exposure to small poKf
There is a period Of about twelve
lays. after the intrOdnt tion of the
poison into The system, until the COM
Of fevers; two days fever
md then the eruption breaks out.
Sow vaccination, to be effective. must
'e practiced Mt least seven days i'm pri-
nary, and five days in secondary vac
ination before the fever begins. Sup
ose person is exposed June 1st, il lie
, vaccinated the 1st, 2nd or 3rd, ir
Till render the attack of small pox
armless to life; if vaceinated on the
tb, it will be of doubtful availability;
later than the 4th, it will be no good
xcept it I've n revaecination which may
e provided I'D late as the 5th or 9th.
nd yet be beneficial. This Is because
rms its course to the
pooh of protection about two days
,oner than first vaccination.
May an unvaceinaied person eou-
act genuine small pox from one suf-
ring with varioloid?
Exposure to the mildest variOlOid,
ay produce in the unprotected, any
'rn of small pox, from the mildest to
lie severest, according to the eonsti
Ition of the subject or the type of the
,idenie prevailing.
]. 4. KIMMEL