Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-11-17
Communicated
VACCINATION.
What The Scientific World Says for
IL as n Sanitary Measure.

~ - summary measufes
In the sENrINEL's review this morning
Of the proceedings Of the late Interna-
tional Anti Vaccination Congress at Col
ogne, we find numerous misstatements, a
correction Of which is due the public. At
the start, a serious doubt suggests itself as
to the representative character Of the
Cologne Congress. 1t is a fact that this
body or its emanations have attracted little
attention or comment on the part of lead
ing members OF the medical profession in
England and America. Notably the proba-
bly, self-appointed American delegate is a
gentleman without prominence Of position
or scientific eminence. Whether the gath
ering as a whole is worthy the considera-
ton or respect OF their professional breth-
rem is a matter pom which we are not
qualified to pass Judgment. It is useless
to deny that unfortunate results have fol-
lowed the employment Of humanized
virus; that by this means constitutional
and specific diseases have been communi-
Gated from one person to another. 1t is
equally we'll known that infectious diseases
have occasionally found transportation
from one person or locality to another
through the agency OF surgical instru.
ments and appliances or upon the persons
Of nurses and physicians. This unfortu-
nate fact, however, will scarcely be raised
as an argument for the abolition OF these
social necessities. Blu the accidents Of
vaccination invariably attend the use Of
humanized. never that OF no~n-humanized
or bovine, virus; 30, II the necessary pre-
caution be taken, we have answered the
only rational objection to the measure.
NIL --.AA &LAN Elanna1t~no x.kn-
nationally treated is not q relatively dam
gerous disease ia, to say the least. a sur
prise to the ordinary reader. The import
OF nationally treated" may indicate that
in the writer Of those words there lies a
secret whereby the horrors Of a loathsome
disease are dispelled. II this be true, this
same savant should supplement his objec-
tions to the accepted methods OF preven-
ton by divulging his secret and causing
TO dawn on suffering humanity a new era
OF protection from one Of Its much-dread-
ed. enemies.
Since the experiments Of Jenner in 1898.
resulting in his discovery OF the utility OF
vaccination, his observations have been
verified repeatedly and by the experience
OF a vast majority OF the respectable medi-
cal profession. 1t is a fact established be-
yond peradventure that vaccination does
afford very considerable immunity from
the onset and progress OF the disease. 1t
has been frequently observed that in "
cases existing under the same surround
ings and influences OF exposure, one OF
non-vaccination. the other Of recent effec-
tive vaccination, the former has suffered
the direst penalty which smallpox can in
fict, while the other has escaped 1t entire
ly or has been subjected TO far less danger
and suffering.
The statistics of death rates in the liter
ature of smallpox and its notifications, as
| effected by use Of rdccine virus, dispel any
| existing doubt, from the mind of the stu
dent, as to the safety to be gained by care
full. successful vaccination.
That the long accepted theories bearing
upon this subject should be attacked at
| this age, and that their assailants should
| find numerous recruits from the ranks OF
professed scientists, is not wonderful.
| Every generation has had its full quota OF
Iconoclasts. A lev
EUREKA, Nov. 16.