The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-12-21

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Foolish Stories We're Told About the Eff
fects of Observation-Disclosures at Last
and Honored by al Epitaph of Praise.
Vaccination. as performed at the
present day. is an operation of compar-
arively recent origin. Preventive in
oculating with smallpox virus, how
ever, was known for many years pre-
vious TO the discovery of vaccination.
For several centuries smallpox was con
sidered more than any other pestilence
the foe of mankind. statistics showing
that about one-sixth of those attacked
died. and hat many survivors We're left
blind, deaf and disfigured.
When Edward Montagu was appoint
ed English ambassador TO Turkey. in
l1ls. his wife. Lady Mary, called at
tention. in one IF her letters. written in
1711, to the custom Of ''ingraftinr'
smallpox. Upon her return to Eng
land she at once undertook the intro
suction OF the art into that country
showing her absolute faith in the oper-
alton by having her young daughter in
oculated. In 1921. scientists having
questioned The ezpedie4cy of the oper
alton, the government extended remis-
sion to several prisoners under SEN
tence of death on the condition that
they would submit t. incubation. The
experiment proved successful, and the
prisoners Were released. Upon the
strength OF this experiment the opera
flon was received with royal favor, the
Princess of Wales having two of her
daughters infected" after the Turk
ssh method.
The efficiency Of the operation in nit
lgating the severity of smallpox was
great. the mortality averaging but three
IN 1000. But there was one drawback
which was considered fatal. However
light the migrated disease might be. it
was still smallpox, and the more it was
conveyed III this way the more Were cen
tiers of infection multiplied from which
those not protected We're liable to con
Tract the disease in its most virulen:
form.
Or, Edward ,Tenner was the son ct
an English clergyman. born III Nay.
i749. at Berkeley. u village in Glouc :.
ter The confident -. zion g.. a yoara
country Woman thai laHias he'd 'cues
pox she WAS pFant agsiast elaaIlpeS
made a lasting l1ai5er .an III Iii, mind
In his tr4ntv-tirst year h. went l.
london to finish his medical education
under DR.. john Eunta1 +. tnral-a.t
ar two years. he tagan practice IN il>
native village of Berkeley Dn reuggr
ing his acquaintance with the dairy
people OF the district, the Eeilef oi Hn
existing a~ntagoriSm between coWllus
and smallpox WAS again brought To his
attention. BY degrees he accumulated
sufficient evidence 10 convince him that
there was something III il. On May IL,
1896. Jenner made his first vaccination
on a boy ot : Years. named James
Phipps. Several weeks afterward tn.
boy was inaculated with smallpox mat
Ter. and. a. Jenner had predicted, no
result followed. Within one year from
the first announcement Of the discovery
20 Of the leading physicians Of London
signed & declaration Of their absolute
confidence III it.
I'm spite Of this the discovery was not
generally accepted without much oppo-
sitIon. Jenuer. his system and all who
adopted 1t were made the butts Of at
tacks hardly eqgaled i'll extravaganza
by any III the history Of medicine.
When he persisted in pressing the con
slderatlon OF vaccination OF a medical
society Of which he was a member, he
was threatened with expulsion. Jenner
and his followers We're denounced as
quacks. The SO called school of ortho-
doxy consisted Of those practitioners
who still adhered to incubation.
4 mother complained that since her
daughter had been vaccinated she
coughed like a COW and that hair had
grown all over her body. 1t is also
said that vaccination had been discon-
tinued in Il country district, because
those who had been i~noculated with
vaccine virus beloved like bulls"
In 800 the practice was introduced
into this country, and six years after it
was first made public the knowledge
and practice of this operation had
spread over the entire world. In Russia
the empress gave the name Of "tacci-
nof, 10 the first child v~accinated and
made its education a public charge.
Many honOrs We're conferred on Jenner
by foreign courts. The anniversary
OF his birth and that of his first vacci-
nation were for many years celebrated
ID Germany as feast days. In 8 o par
lament voted him $50, 900, and 1--we
years later 800. 900 more. He died of
apoplexy in 1928, and his remains were
laid in the parish church of Berkeley
The following epitaph is inscribed On
his tomb:
Within this tomb hath found a resting place.
The great Pill ysician of the human race
Immortal Jenner, whose gigantic mind
Brought life and health to more than half
mankind
Let rescued infancy his worth proclaim
And lisp out blessings On his honored name.
I'D radiant BEAUTY drop one grateful! Tear,
For beauty truest friend lies buried here.
Nowadays the old fashioned method
ut arm to arm Is no longer