The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-12-29
naked eye.
ESCAPE A FEARFUL PERIL.


Popular error has invested the dread con-
tagiOn with the virtue OF so cleansing the
blood and reiuyenating the system as to
send forth those who survive an attack ever
| after impervious to the ordinary Ills OF the
| flesh. But medical science has demonstrated
the fact that smallpox wrecks its victims
Once prostrated by smallpox and recover
ing, they are mailclad against the contagion
thereafter; but they escape with the system
undermined, broken, and with liability 10
cons umption and other destroying diseases.
Vaccination, now recognized by the med
ical faculty as the only safeguard against
smallpox, Is .innOculation with smallpox
| In q harmless form-small-poX that wards
off the virulent coDtagion that kills. This
is BRIEF setting f0rtn of the outcome OF
wears on years OF study and OF whole libra
ries OF statistics.
DIR. TAYLOR says that the only i'll that can
follow vaccination Is here and there case
of erysipelas, and never even erysipelas IN
the case OF ali admit, nor in the case OF an
infant except where the mother is so grossly
ignorant as not to know how to nurse the
sick babe properly. He adds That there is
no greater liability to eryspelas from vac
c'nation than from the scratch OF pin, and
that where erysipelas sets in it may be traced
to Zymotic causes.
"Wben YOU send an afflicted mother TO
Riverside Hospital, does her babe accOmpa-
nv her?" the Herald reporter inquired.
"We vaccinate the babe" replied the
Doctor, "and send 1t into the hospital with
| its mother; and in all the experience OF the
vaccinating corps we have not had babe
contract the disease, and whenever we take
children into Riverside Hospital we insist
| that the mother shall accompany them. Of
course she is vaccnated. No mother thus
yaccinated and sent into the hospital has
taken smallpox"
"Itw was once the practice TO take the virus
| from one patient and transmit IL to another;
| but although we were satisfied that no
| malady was communicated ia this way, we
yielded to popular prejudice so far as TO
establish farm In Clifton, y. D., from
which TO get virus against which no mans
Imagination could rebel, and there we vac
cinate from three to six calves every day In
the year, the number yaccinated depending
on the demand. We employ thirteen
physicians In the vaccinating depart-
ment, and since the Italians have
brought us smallpox we have been vacci-
mating an average OF fifteen hundred per-
sons a week. The Board furnishes all the
public charitable institutions in New York
with the pure virus from our calves free,
and gives physicians all the virus they re-
auire for vaccnating persons from whom
they get no pay. We also sell large quanti-
ties 10 physicians in the country, and at all
times we have on hand sufficient virus to
| vaccinate from 5000 to 10000 persons. The
Board has been Systematically vaccinatlng
in this city for six yeais, and now. with all
the coming into the city and all the going
out OF the city, we have fewer cases OF small
box than they have in the smaller cities
north, south, and west OF us. We have less
of the malady than ever before In this city
less than In any other city OF its size In the
civilized world. There are about nfty pa
tients in Riverside Hospltal.".
| The Herald reporter had thanked Dr.
TAYLOR and ry-Superintendent Day,
| and was Withdrawing, but the physicians
detained him with the injunction Don't
forget to say that every person who hasn't
been yaccinated within seven years ought
at once to be yaccinated."