Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-09
Dr. Miller Brings Forward a Mass of
Testimony and Argument to
Prove his Theory That
TIE PRACTICE is A BIG HUMBUG.
Figures From English Authorities Showing
That incubation Causes Dis
ease and Ia Useless
As A PREVENTIVE FOR SMALLPOX.
Quotations From Meocal Experts and Learned Men
Taking the Same Ground
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Jenner, an English physician, discovered
or rather adapted, the practice of vaccina
ton in 1898. 1t was to take the place o
inoculation, which practice was introduced
into England by Lady Mary Wortley Mon
taeue in 1921. Inoculation is the introduc
tiOn of smallpox lymph from one arm Il
another, while vaccination is the placing o
lymph, secured from the cali, the calf hav
ing previously been contaminated by 8
product of the grease sore of the horse. This
contamination originated by the careles!
groomsmen who milked the COWS after clean
ing greasy hoofs. 1t was observed that milk
maids who contracted sores from diseased
teats, showed an immunity from smallpox OF
at least had varioloid. This coming to
Jenner's notice, he began experimenting
and after 20 or more years succeeded in haV-
ing the practice legalized in a very peculiar
manner as we shall see further on.
Previous to the practice of incubation
(uot yaccinationl or about the year 1873,
smallpox and measles were looked upon
with about the same concern, the one no
more dangerous than the other, but after the
introduction of inoculation the ravages of
smallpox increased to such degree in the
following century and halt that in 1S40 it
became necessary TO make inoculaticn a
penal offense. Something had to take the
place of it, and SO heggarly was medical
practice at that time that practically the
same thing was continued but called by a
different name.
Vaccina or the cowpox never originates
spontaneously in the COW and is not one OF
its natural disorders, and If anything like it
did appear Jenner declared it worthless for
Vaccinsl purposes. Please remember this.
SOURCE OF VACCINE MATTER.
The cowpoz, to which he ascribes these
virtues, is a filth disease communicated
from the greasy heels of ill-kept horses, as
before stated. This grease disorder results
from an Inflammation of the sebaceous
glands OF the skin about the heels of horse
and is properly called eczema pustulosum.
The disease originates from q scroiulous
condition, supervenes from exposure to wet
and lack of cleanliness. This is the source
Of the original vaccine matter or cowpoX.
The first vaccination was made upon a lad
named James Phipps, who subsequently
died of pulmonary consumption. Remem-
Der this. Two years later, 1889, be vacci-
mated his own son, then IL years old, with
swine poX-scarcely any animal escaped
then-and between that year and 1892 he
repeatedly inoculated him with smallpox.
This son was always delicate in health, and
tion. Such was the ranstitaf 8 Eht4ena snmr-
John Hunter, voiciEg the sentiment of the
profession at that time, says: "The introduc-
tlon by incubation OF mineral or vegetable
poisons into the blood is hazardous, but the
introduction of animal products from an
other living body, be it man or COW, or even
an ass, is infinitely more perniciouS."
The Royal Society, in 1871, refused admis-
sion to Jenner's treatise, but he succeeded
in persuading a number of aristocratic
ladies to become amateur vaccinators, and
thus is it seen that women had more to do
with its introduction than anybody else.
These lady vaceinators performed it upon
thousands of persons. Counts and count
esses, dukes and followers espoused the
cause, and finally in 1902 the King COM
manded the Prime Ministers to request Par
Lament to award Jenner out of the public
fund. Here have we at an early date an
evidence OF the rapacitY of the vaceinators,
the greed OF the beneiactors (?) for public
money, and, strange to say, the same thing
obtains to this day.
Jenner promised the King and Parlia-
mert that vaccination would put an end to
smallpox. Not only was the people to be
perfectly secure from death from smallpox,
but they were to be equally secure from at
tack. There were absolutely to be no cases.
and this when vaccination had been on trial
for only six years. How perfectly absurdl
ENDORSEMENT BY DOCTORS.
Now the medical profession, overawed by
the attitude of court and nobility, found it
convenient to withdraw their opposition and
indorse what they previously rejected.
To train with the majority seemed as much
necessary adjunct of public recognition then
as now.
Let us examine in the next place the
sources Of vaccination material. Jenner be-
licved that smallpox, swine pox, COW pox
and grease were varieties OF the same dis
ease. He vaccinated his own son with
swine pox. He used the grease virus
(horse pox) in large number of cases. In
Spain goat pox was used, and Jenner
claimed that the virus of these and various
other animals were equally efficacious. He
also used arm to arm vaccination derived
from the horse. 1t will be seen that he
practiced five distinct things under the
name of vaccination.
/. Cow poN vaccination.
2 Cow pox. child vaccination.
= Horse pox lgrease) vaccination.
z. Horse pox, child vaccination.
8. Swine DoX vaccination.
AT no lime did he inoculate the COW with
variola, although he asserted that grease.
cowpox and smallpox were all one disease.
In 1901 Gassner, OF Gunsburg, inoculated a
COW with variolous virus and from this
stock of genuine vaccine lymph was OBJ
tained. Another stock was obtained from a
spontaneous cowpoX, and is called the Beau
gcney stock, but il must be remembered
that Jenuer declared the spontaneous variety
OF cowpox as utterly worthless. Yet was
this stock sent broadcast and thousands were
vaccinated from it. Thus, in addition to the
virus OF various origin, we have varioIa,
cowpox and the Beaugency stock.
The present stock is derived from the
Besugency stock, which Jenner declared
worthless, and the calf lymph, derived from
smailpoxing heifer from the vesicles of
which calves are lnoculated, from whence
comes the lymph we now use. Cali Beau
gency stock (worthless) and calf smallpox
cowpox.
AUTHORITIES DIFFER.
Now, if as Jenner declared, the various
poxes are one thing, simpleI derivations
from horse grease, it can make little differ
ence through what animal it comes, pro-
vided the animal is healthy. But authori-
ties differ widely upon this point Some
claimed that smallpox inoculation of cows
produces genuine vaccine lymph;" others
show that it is a delusion 10 suppose that
inoculation of cows with smallpox has ever
produced eowpox, it produces smallpox,
and nothing else, and is never transmitted
into grease in the horse, or cowpox in the |
COW.
DR.. George wyld, of London, denied
that vaccine lymph was obtained by calf
smallpox inoculatiOn, but modified small |
pox capable OF spreading smallpox among
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