The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-01-26
VACCINATION.
Popular Observation-Disclosures of the
niseaselDne to Ignorance.
Ne,c FORK Herald.


country aud the many deaths that hay,
resulted aud are occurring every da,
have CON -entrated public attention t(
such degree that the old discussion ba,
been resuscitated as to the value of vac
cination. Very many people arc care
less in this matter because they have
been told it was no value as guart
against the contagion, and Others neglec,
IL from oil idea that vaccination is one o
those antiquated practices that originated
In remote ages and should now be rele,
gated to the simple minded and supersti,
tious. Certain classes Of medical practi
tioners have been industrious ia promul.
eating these notions, apparently with nc
better motive than opposition to we'll
established custom. People rho have
neither the time nor the inclination tc
inquire into the subject accept mere
passing dictum in place OF old and re-
spectacle authority, and, unfortunately
Others and 700 often innocent persons
become the sufferers. To help th, doubt.
ing to thorough understanding of the
question and to put before everybody the
best knowledge procurable, Herald re-
porter called on DR.. Lewis A. Sayre yes.
terday and obtained his views. DR.
Sayre was resident physician of the city
OF New York twenty years ago. and is
therefore, an authority upon a subject he
treats with 80 much ability.
MIsLEA DING PHYSICIANS.
The reporter found DIR. Sayre in his
Office on Fifth avenue, and rs soon as he
explained the nature of his business the
surgeon said: "Glad to see you; sit
down. Small pox? ha, been think-
ing good deal of it, seeing the reports
from all over the country. Do you know
Lave often thought it would be a good
thing. if this city was scourged to the
very heart with that disease to teach the
people their duty? Nothing else will
ever do it. Nothing A lot of these
new tangled phantom physicians have
been telling them pretty stories and the
foolish people have taken them for truth.
They will find too late that they are like
the neutrality-suspicious. The man
who stops to discuss vaccination with
any other view than to insist on it en-
pbatically is an idler. I will show vol.
some of the reasons why, and let the
readers of the Herald judge for them
selves. From the most careful study OF
statistics and of the opinions, and expe-
riences of the most acknowledged au
thorities, physicians have come to the
positive conclusion that the small pox
is capable of being entirely eradica-
ted from any community by proper
and persistent system of unirc. sal and
repeated vaccination. From the wear
1888 (when the immortal Jcnner an.
nounced to the world his great dis
covery) 10 the present time facts have
been constantly accommodating for the
elucidation of the most universally ac-
cumuiating for the clucidation of the
most universally accepted truth ever de-
monstrated by the science of medicine,
and that is that vaccination, when prop
erly performed, is certain and perfect
protection nrainst small pox. Now,
there's the .oint. Hammer that in as
hard as ever you can. Vaccination
when properly performed, is certain
and perfect protection against small pox,
l repeat. That was my opinion twenty
years ago, and all have heard, read and
seen since then strength ems that opinion
I urged compulsory vaccination then, j
urge it to-day with the accumulated
force Of twenty years adidiiiionu! expert.
ence."
ONE DEATH IN EIGHT THOUSAND VACCI.
NATIONS
DR.. S.yre took up some memoranda
from his desk, and referring to them oc
casionaliy, went on in an eNrnest, impres
sive manner:
"In 1927 most malignant and fata
epidemic of small pox ragged in Philhdel
phia. Drs. Cox, Condie and Meigs, o.
the committee of the Medical Society o
that city, report that but one-now you
ought to repeat that 'one' several time.
to fasten it in the peoples mind-bu
one we'll ascertained death from that dis
ease among 5000 vaccinated person
came to the knowledge of the committee
Let the phantom physicians take up tha
point and consider it. Drs. Bell an,
Mitchell report that of 248 cases of vari
ola and yarioloid treated at the small
pox hospital, l55 were unprotected b.
vaccination, of whom eightyfyc died
nine were inocculated. of whom lhre
died, and sixty. three hadlbeen vaccinated
of whom but single one died. There
another good place to pause"
Reporter-With regard to the frequen
cy of vaccination, Doctor, in the sam
person7
~ am coming to that. 1 have shown tina
it is abundantly proved that vaccination
will prevent small pox, and now mus
say it is generally admitted that its pro
tecting influence is not of lifelong dura
ton. 1t diminishes in proportion TO tn
lapse of time from the vaccination, unit
it has been several times repeated, O
until the system has been so thorough
infected with the vaccine poison that
will then act as permanent protectio
equally as we'll as If the person had sui
fered from the small pox itself.
REvACCINATIoS.
ga very good authority, DR.. G.
Weed, says that it cannot now be denie
that single vaccination does not affor
the permanent security it was suppose
to do. Probably nearly one half of thos
vaccinated successfully are liable t
more or less effect from the variolous cor
tagion, though it is asserted that whe
the operation is performed with four {
more insertions instead Of one the pre-
| portion of protection is much greater
Now, again, Mr.. Simon, in his famou
| report, says that he was much struc
with the fact that persons who had bee
yaccinated years before, and who durin
this interval had perhaps repeatedly RI
sisted small pox, would at length i'm
certain proportion of their number yiel
to the Infection"
Reporter-Was this observed at an
stated time.
DIR. Sayre-Yes; it most frequentl
happened during the times when sma
pox was severely epidemic among II
unvaccinated, and when large masses
persons with vaccination of many yea
were exposed TO the test of strong ep
demic influence. Under this ordeal
became evident that for some vaccinate