Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-02-03
How Vaccine Points are Prepared.

One OF The largest vaccine farms 10 the
clunry is that near Fond du Lao. d.. Grifho,
President tf the Wisconsin Board of Health,
who IS 10 charge, told o reporter:
u Use the very best animals I c,u procure.
They ars-most Of them-shcr.-h horns, and, as
you see. ere fat AID hearty. I buy them by
the Car load, snd then am obliged to select the
stock from which obtain the virus. Out Of
every consigrm snt of heifers I buy l have to
reject large number. Any form of skin disease
or other fuutiopal disturbances, even it the an
mai is 10 all other respects apparently healthy.
oobdtmns her,"
Do ytu use hefsrs alone iu your business"
" very rarely use bull calves. Their virus
is lst as coed. but it is more difficult to get
pert. 9; operation from them on account of their
tough skies.
lne barn wss visited. Where tw, men were
VaccoeinR hcif.r. She wss strapped tightly
in narrow stall. Her tail was eevs ei by
means ct strap, etd the cscu,cheop. thus eX-
SD. ~Is carefully shaved With siaz,r. Then
6 10 splnai wes Vacopa ed 10 ten places upon the
ou.tooss, The scar!6cslioa-abous so Iuoh 10
dlsmstsr-be!ng made with the point Of 8 .harp
kult!, two extra sz,d points b:ing applied to
each psca. This Isl long operation, from
three to i've aou:s being consumed in vaccnlt-
ltg single animal. The one op. rated on tx
bioited 10 signs OF disco nfcrt at ter tres.men,
beyond an occasional twuchiog of ber Iegs,
T0ls operation hsviug been completed, the
process Of ex'rac iug the virus from another
auuaI w.s baguo. Sne was a lively little
short horp, AID as it was feared she W .ud net
nd in bo n
tbod OF keeping Ter q1iet was uaed. Sne was
led alOugsiie liable. the top ef which wa
hinged so az to psrmlI its taking perpendcu-
lar position. Size was 6ruly strapped TO ,hl-,
and the TOP being restored to horz)ntal posi-
ioo, .he enlmel touad herself lying upon her
side before she knew it, The sores were
Washed with Warn water, which partially dis
solved the soab, which WAS then easily removed
with pair of piochers and the open sore ex-
,osed, liom which the liquid lymph exuded.
Tho lScEy p1in's were dppe1 10 this mater,
e,ch twlce, and placed on q tray to dry, and the
operation was complete.
The doctor c,ncucsed the reporter through
this stable. wLicl wss filed with calves in all
Stages If scknes from those frt sbly vaccinated
70 those whose sores we're almost ready to burst
A man wa busy curryir 6 hem with comb and
brush. Ths toilet OF Maud 8 could not be pei
formed in more c,elul snd thorough msnuer
The flo r, Ware swept aid washed cleau, th r.
bei, 6 MT the slg ghtest trace of st, b 9 NELL dis
9 rlsble. Two email coal stoves were 10 the
stable to keeo ifs temperature Ven.
"Bovine rus is mostly used 10 vaccination,
DOW, s it nu' ?" was asked.
'lo the cities yes; 10 country practice this
rule does not prevail 90 80 g;eat an exteot. The
rural doctors buy dollars worth Of cow-pox
vnus with which thy v.c,inste ten persons
SONS Of these will be healthy ohiIdren, the
scabs from waose arms will be IS good as any
bovine virus. 10 lhs city. where people are
less virtuous than in the county there is always
dagger from using hunsolzed virus.