New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-23

by scrofula until the vaccine fluid was let into his
arm. Evil then declared itself in his face aid neck
swollen glands became angry sores, AMI they event
uaily forced Beau Brumniefs patron 10 go anu i've
IN retirement at Windsor. Ii is by the recital OF
Instances such as these that tie anti-vaccInatlon
people seek to overthrow the work OF Jenner
With regard to the alleged immunity which the
Jenneran lmyph affords, IT is held that records are
loosely Kept IN SINAI pox HOSPITALS of tbOse who have
been vaccinated AMI thOs who have not. III The work
OF the vaccine pusule IS not at once discovered on
the arm of paleut who " too delirlOus or feeble
to give any information about his past life tie
cIlSiOn ~ at once arrived AZ that lie never went
through the .Jennerian operation. In the summer
OF 1879 had a servant who had been reyaccinated
over and over again, until her arms were dts
figured with pustur marks. She went to 2 party
OF saya0eS IN the Jartlln dAcclmatatiOD, and
canght smallpox, from which they had sui
Tered on their way here. | never heard of
worse case than hers WAS. Nobody IN the house
would believe, so frequently had she been vacci-
mated, That It was that disease when II began to
declare itself In tlrre days from the time the
eruption fist came out tine poor girl was mass of
loathsone pnrulence. On the fourth day she was
dead. NOhOdy so far ~ could learn took 1t from
her. Those who attended her wore respiIai0rS Ol
cotton wa.dng which had been stepped III phrnol
and then dried.
In my country retreat near Paris. have 4 servant
Who without knowing my views on the Jennerlan
theory came To me last summer tO unhurlben her
mind. She has an orphan grondchlld whom she
wants to place in 2 charitable institution at frs
th0u9ht she wanted my interest with the director TO
obtain nilsson tor the lite girl. NO" she saiu.
all wanted OF You was to get them to take her
~ Nltuoht 4 CtltluCdlc Ol VACCINATION. Dub
why | asked, Curious TO hear what size woull
reply, do you wish t. let the child eHain eXpo'e ed
10 small pON y She answered: no more believe
m vaccine keeping you from tUat disease than |
do IN baptism opening Hea"en to our souls. Bap-
t-n moreover. does no harm. / am convinced
that vaccination is lanefuI TO the hraithy. have
known a great many instances Of the hurt that II
can do aud could cite numerous examples OF It's
mCapacty 10 ward OIL smallpox. Not 10 90 be
y"nd my own family, the two eldest of seven chill
dreif were yaccinalcd. One was boy, the othera
grl Sho soon alter complained OF glanduar
SNoings, Of ear8che. and Ultimately berame deaf
post. The boy did NOT appear the wore: But
the year following smallpox broke out III tile IL
laCe. We all cauaht It. aud those who suffered
most severely were precisely the ones that had
been EdCcn3ted."
wish some American. trained to observe, would
take up III perfectly unprelnGlced spirit The sub
jrct OF vaccination. and thoroughly investigate IT,
Pure AIR. As VI. PH>teur has shown by his peri
ments Is the great destroyer OF InOruId Vlrus.
Oxygen burns up mIletCrnt gerUs In the time at
Jeunrr ar was looked mon as me arch-rneny. !
am inclined TO think tnht the wIle and high WIN
dowS OF the press MT day have ne more 10 free US
from small poX than the discovery OF Jenner.