Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-01-03
FOURTH EDITION
THE AM ALL. POX
A few UseTul Hints PertaininE 70
Ssnail-pOx ssd how It's spsesa
has been Prevented ~ . Pfaest-
cling Physisiaa,

ebmk F0yolo1nO'
Prom the Scientific American.
There are few diseases that possess
more interest, both for the physician
and the public, than small ox, an,
hence We take pleasure in laying be
fore our readers a description OF tn,
| treatment which has been used To
many years with great success by Dr
A.ban 5. Payne, late Professor OF The
DRY and Practice in the Sou thern Medi
cal College, and Honorable Fellow o
the Medical Society of Virginia, etc
The following is an abstract made by
his PERMISSION from one Of his lecture,
on smallpox.
Prot. Payne states that as early a,
1886, when AT the smallpox Hospita
III New York city, he noticed that the
primary or initial fever OF smallpox
could he detected by the pulse before
any other symptoms appeared Thi,
pathogDomoniC pulse Is one peculiar II
smallpox, d pulse SUI geDetis difficult
to describe, but recognizable by any
physician who will carefully inyesii-
gate the subject until his ttnger becomes
educated. When once recognized 1t
cannot ever br torgot,cu, any more
than n physician who has once learned
10 detect he hemOrhaIlG pulse could
forget its peculiar thr'll impaired 10 his
educated finger.
Having learned I'd recognize the I'M.
tlal fever 10y its peculiar pulse, he next
proceeds To yaCGinate. II this is done
,lthiu ten or twelve hours after incep-
tlOn o! the initial fever the patent will
have slight indisposi,lon, without n
sign of eruption, and As positive ca
-nlp'lon from a recurrence OF the DIS
east az il he had il III the most maIr-
uaut form, Foe most remarkable fea-
turr ahout the whole thing i>if tie pa
tiert is vaCaluaDt early altcr the ini-
tia fever SEES in he may then liza allow
ed to 90 wherever he pieases to go with
out any fear Of giving the disc Use 10 9TH
era. Tue iugraIting ct the vaccine mat =.
Ter upon the primary vaIloiUus fever
sccm, 10 have The po~er 10 destroy IT'S
ability Of reproduction OF propagation
entirely, Another PECULIARLY is this ::
II an unprotected patient is Narcinated
before the Inception of the inltia, fever,
and the vaccine takes but docs no.
prevent only m,.diiies the disease, the
eruption will be yariu!old IN its appear
ance and characteristics But II vac
ciLaled after tn" COMMENCEMENT OF the
Initial lever, ami too lale Ia eutllciy
prevent an eruption, the eruption viii
resemble IN size and other characterize
tics the smallpox eruption, II matters
not whether there is one or a hundred
pimplrs.
DR.. Payne divides small. roX into con-
fluent, semi.Couiiuent, discreet, inudI-.
ned ami manipulated; the latter being
a term of his own invention. In 1873
smallpox broke out i'll his neighbor-
hood, in Virginia, and was of the Va.
riety known as variola uigra, and
when not nodded by some bsnlgu intla.
ence was invariably contiuent fhoseln
and around Manassas were OF the same
variety. Being called TO attend IA col
ored chambernlaid who had recently
been abortrd, and who was IN a room
over the Kitchen OF a large hotel near
his own dwelling, he recognized i'll her
the pulls" peculiar 10 smallpox, and the
next day the eruption appeared.
81 ''b"'" w 'p''"''''' ~ ',.i - ~"
IL would never do to remove tins Wo-
man, and determined 10 Isolate ,hc
ease ana abide the consequences, BE-
they what they might. II have her
removed, | said, the poor woman must
die, and the prevailing WINDS Will btoT
the Hlru" for miles down the valley be
low, and the dlse;tse VIII spread aeyoud
But by isolating the ease !
have every confidence III my ability 10
cheek II. But should she die, She must
be removed for burial (and that Nhr
will die there Is n strong probability
AMI my plans will bedeteated, and
shall incur the reproach OF al my
friends and negnbors. These were
grave considerations, and was by ~
means reclining on Jtd OF roses.
Firm in faith OF the greatest good to the
greatest number, never 'aItercd. |
said TO myself, ifshc lies Will wrap
Ter from her toes 10 the crown OF her
lead IN double Inca, aud with the aid
If some Que who has had the smallpox l
Will bury her. This was January II,
S'3. BY the joth she was conyalescent,
having had IL in the eini.contineut
urIn, Three persoris who were in the