The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-12-15
RMALL POX.
The Merits or vaeSinatIon-HOW Pare
Virus Is Obtained.


acouyersation recently with thehealth Off
Ger Of the city in regard to smallpox andyac-
cination. DR.. Edwards has had q good deal
Of experience with the small pox, having
at one time been connected with hospital
in Cincinnati where there were large
number Of small pox patients-as many as
one hundred and fifty at one time. lie
lived in the hospital-slcpt and boarded
there, and was constantly in the atmos-
phere Of the hospital and in contact with
the patients. He never had symptom OF
the disease, and enjoyed no other protec'
ton than that afforded by vaccination.
He has also been in contact with several
cases Of small pox since he became-health
officer Of Wheeling, notably the Jackson
case ut the pest house last year, and
has enjoyed the same immunity from dis
ease by virtue alone OF vaccination.
This fact, the doctors immunity from ut
tack OF the disease, brought up the general
subject Of vaccination, and especially the
DISCUSSIONS OF number Of medical men in
this country and Europe who inyeigh
against vaccination because It may be a
means Of innoculating the public with class
otbood diseases that are as bad as the small
poxitselt. The doctor does not take any stock
in the views Of those who set themselves
up against the well attested benelcent
results Of vaccination, and says that they
greatly exaggerate the extent OF disease
communicated by vaccination. Ileadmits
that there is a liability to contamination by
the use Of HUMAN virus-a virus that should
never be used, and that no reputable ply
stefan will use these days il he can possibly
help It.
That the use Of human virus as vaccine
matter can DO avoided in the vast majority
Of cases is fact well known to all ply.
siCians. There Rre numerous agencies Of
perfectly reliable character in the country
where the pure virus-obtained from
cows--can be had. Ono Of these is To-
catedlat Fon Du Lac, Wisconsin, and the
following account Of the place and the
method OF obtaining the virus will be in.
tercsting to all our readers at this time
We quote from the Chicago Tribune OF
Tuesday:
"a great many people have m idea that
the vaccine virus used upon them in vac
cination Is modified smallpox, brought
down and modified through vaccination OF
line OF heiiers. All thisis entirely wrong.
In the Health Department only pure, clean
bovine virus is used. In the State OF Min.
nesOta the State Board OF Health uses
humanized virus, to which there is great
objection, owing 10 the liability Of injecting
OF another. The danger from such contain
ination is entirely prevented by bovine
virus, which is simply u reproduction
Of the Cow.pox. DR.. Il. L. Griffin,
President OF the Wisconsin State Board OF
Health, was in the city yesterday. lie Is
the proprietor Of the vaccine farm at Fond
du Lac, and was ut the Health office yes.
terday, where Tribune reporter had quite
o pleasant conversation with him. The
Doctor has twenty-six acres OF land only,
which is sufficient for stable and ground
room. Yesterday he received ninety.six
young dairy heiiers from Cayuga county,
New York, for purposes Of vaccination.
They are all last springs calves, and mainly
Short-Horns and peVons, Of rod and white
cOlOrs.
"Would bull calves answer for this pur.
pose ?" asked the reporter.
"Not alter they are three months old.
Then their skin becomes too coarse and
hard, and we cannot use them"
HWhat do you feed them?"
"0nly the best Of hay, shorts, and oats.
To the younger calves we must feed grain.
We must have them sleek and healthy,
and they must be cared for as you care for
child
nIlow many do you yaccinAte day."
aFrom two 10 three"
"How many times do you vaCcinate a
single ANIMAL"
Never but once, II IL don't take we do
not try again. We do with these heiters
the same as we do with child. We watch
them very carefully, and generally on the
seventh, eighth or ninth day the pustule
fipens and we extract the virus and dip the
points, Where all animal does not take
IteeIy into tSo a,ke IN bcy VI or reG ~ s ooS
~ sySs aIsS thS, r., o;,bs. i!;s ,e soJIu
raising purposes"
"Hog many points do yOu secure from
2 THAT depends. From 80 to 500 and
1000. We generally expect 10 yet about
thousand, but we can't always tell"
SOME people have an idea that your
ANAL box yirusY,' 'NN''''N
WThapsibe sheerest nonsesse In thowor,d
We conidn't afford 10 and wouldnt ,iaTn IN
use SSyibinp eise but ' nite COW nov " ~itnS
Mine wss lie Third vaccine iorRp ne ever ei es