The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-27

themselves into sluice ditch at the side
of the street, containing six inches Of
water. Many of the windows in the vicin-
ity of the ARRAY are penetrated by the
flying missiles. The strangeat feature of
the whole thing is that not more men were
injured. With the exception of those
mentioned, one other man received q
slight flesh wound in the face.
The wounded man will probably recover.
The three captured are yOurg rangers
from Texas. They refuse to talk with
any one, but put in their time by cursing
everything and everybody in this country.
They are hard crowd. Two of the orig
inal number are still at arge.-Dead,pO0d
ID. ~ Cor. Chicago Journal.
Description or . Vaccination Farm in
Wisconsin.
THE recent manifestations of smallpox
in Chicago, and the fear entertained that
this dreaded disease, from which the city
has happily been almost entirely free for
considerable time past, may become cpl
demic. has directed the attention of the
Health Department and the medical pro-
fessiOn generally TO the question of vacci-
nation. Already the Health Officers are
moving in the matter, and if properly aid
ed by physicians, and their instructions
obeyed by the public, there need be no
fear of the contagion spreading. That the
public may be satisfied that the means
employed are such as they can safely
adopt, reporter of the Tribune has in
vestigated what is known as a vaccine
farm" and the result of his researches
into this somewhat peculiar branch of in
dustry is now offered for consideration.
That vaccination, the immortal discov-
cry of the great physician Jenner, is the
only preventive of this most lOathsOme
disease none can question. But there are
many intelligent people who hold that
vaccination, while efficacious in modify
ing the ravages of smallpox, is open to
grave objections as transmitter of scrof-
ulous and other blood taints. 1t seems
we'll settled, medical men being almost
unit on the subject, that scrofula and skin
diseases cannot thus be transmitted; but,
on the other hand, it is allowed by the
profession that humanized virus may con-
vey blood disorders. Rather than entail
this fearful risk upon their offspring
many thinking men have refused deliber-
ately to allow their vaccination, and thus
an element of danger to the community
has grown up.
But fortunately way has been found
out of the difficulty, and this is by the use
of bovine virus; that is, of matter taken
directly from the cow. In other words, a
return has been made to first principles,
and regular system has been devised of
obtaining the virus direct from the heifer.
As is probably known to all, DIR. Jenner
was led to the discovery of vaccination by
being called upon to treat some English
dairy maids for an eruption, caused by
milking cows affected with what he termed
voriole uaccin0, from his belief that what
was known as cow-p0x was a modified
form of smallpox. DR.. Jenner noticed
that these women were exempt, afterward,
from small-po in its virulent form, and
from this beginning resulted this great
discovery.
The vaccinations made by DR.. Jenner
were almost entirely with virus obtained
from human transmissiOns, ana those who
followed him were so fully convinced of
the complete prophylactic power of virus
from this source that they sought no other.
Spontaneous cases of cow.pox are of rare
occurrence, but in 1886 q genuine case did
appear at Passy, in France, and from this
stock of lymph was obtained by trans
mission, and for many years this stock
was carefully guarded, and utilized to
great advantage. In 1866 the most famous
case known occurred at Beaugency, a
town short distance from Paris. DIR.
Constantine de Paul, Chairman Of the
Committee on Vaccination in the Academy
of Medicine in Paris, was allowed 5000
francs for expenses, and after repeated
trials with this stock its merits were fully
established, and to-day the Beaugency
stock is famous throughout the world.
In the summer of 1870, DR.. Henry A.
Martin, of Boston, having procured lymph
from Beaugency, vaccinatcd the first
heifer ever treated in this country with
that virus. DR.. Frank p. Foster, of New
York, followed with similar experiments,
and in November, 1872, DR.. E. L. Griffin,
of Fond du Lac, Wis, President of the
State Board of Health, opened stable for
the same purpose, and has conducted the
business ever since. 1t is from this source
that the Chicago Board of Health is now
being supplied with an average of 500
points" per day, and his farm was &C
cordingly the one visited.
In the stables, which are situated about
three-quarters of mile east of the bust.
ness center of Fond du Lac, and which are
in all details exquisitely clean and we'll.
appointed, noless than seven animals are
at present undergoing treatment. The re.
cent "scare" has created such demand
for animal virus as to fully tax the capa.
bilites of production, but in few days
this trouble will be gotten over. The ami.
mails range in age from four months ia
two years, DR.. Griffin, in this respect, diff.
fering from his brethren in the East, who
only use young calves for the purpose.
They are v:ccinated direct, one being
always under treatment, even when the
demand for points is light, as it is at some
seasons. The hair having been shaved
off from the upper part of the thighs, the
vaccination is made as in the human sub.
ject, except that the number of incisions
is considerably greater. On the seventh
or eighth day the vesicles are ready fol
opening, and where fair success attends
the operation, thousand or more points
can be charged from the one animal. The
points are Of ivory, prepared in Connect.
cut, and it has been found that these fur.
nish the best means of transmission. Great
care Is taken of the animals during theil
sickness, particular attention being paid
to the diet, which consists principally Of
hay, bran-mashes, and other light food
xuC July UCpd1tuIO 11Om uUIuldl COHul.
tions, 80 far as observed, is q slight in.
crease in the animal temperature, which
ranges perhaps 5 per cent. above the aver.
age. No ill.effects are sustained by the
heifers, which can only be utilized once
subsequent vaccinations uniformly failing
to "take."
The stock used is procured from neigh.
boring farms, and SO fully convinced are
the farmers that the operation is not dele
FERROUS to the health of the animal, that
many Of them willingly loan heifers to
DR.. Griffin. His farm consists of about
fifteen acres, mostly pasture land, with a
brook running through it, and affords him
every facility for properly carrying on
what has grown to he quite business.
There are only three or four Of these
vaccine depots " in this country, but as
each one can turn out during the year an
almost unlimited supply Of "points, y
there is reason to hope that within short
time nothing but bovine virus, or such as
has only gone through one or two human
subjects, will be used. The medical pro-
fession consider that couple of transmits
sions render the lymph better, if anything,
than that tokou H3roc% -rhs~nnn 9rshes ~