Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-01

she hesitated.
ON. mother. what shall l do" the
girl pleaded.
Get vaccinated on the arm, my
dear the dame replied. II you carry
out your first resolution, why-why
John can't sit on your lap for a whole
MONTH"
That settled it. The girl was vac
cinated on the arm.
Vaccination is just as successful when
applied to the leg as the arm. Although
DR.. Bryant recommends that the latter
limb be selected, by reason Of the fact
that the wound is less exposed to an
noyances III wearing apparel rubbing
against it. he rarely suggests such
choice to the patient, leaving it to the
individuals sweet will. Sensible wom-
en. however, have nominated that part
Of their anatomy for vaccination, be-
cause Of Tess danger from irritation.
and a speedier healing OF the wound
is the result Of such choice.
Several times the conversation be-
tween the doctor and reporter was in
terrupted BY telephone calls from the
pest house. At another time a special
officer came in to tell him that a raid
had been made on the French cribs on
Ga!ena street, and all the girls would
be up at the city hall at 4 o'clock
for vaccination. Another visitor in
formed the doctor that a special meet
ing of the board of health had been
called to meet with the county commits
sloners, because the pest house was
full IF patients, and ways and means
would have to be devised to enlarge
the present building or erect an add
ton.
Tho how nf A ~ .rt n,-t..a -
dial Of the courthouse clock. Dr.. Bry-
ant grabbed his box Of lymph tubes.
ana in ten minutes thereafter he was
holding a vaccination matinee with the
French denizens of the Tenderioin.
1T FEELS LIKE THIS.
Invasion Of smallpox is ushered in by
a Chill. which is, as a rule, violent, with
rise of temperature to 103 degrees F..
on the first day. Prostration may be
pronounced from the start. The pa
tlent is put 10 bed, or, if on his feet,
staggsrs as ii drunk. Anorexia. vom-
lung. Jactitation, insomnia and severe
headache, with sore throat. set in at
once. Above all other signs, pain in
the loins assume prominence. 1t ac-
companies the fever from the start, and
subsidies only with it's fall at the APP
pearance of the eruption on the third
lay. Persistent pain in the back, pc
culiar in it's intensity, constitutes the
most characteristic symptoms of this
stage: unfortunately 1T is present in
but little more than one-half of all
cases.
Smallpox is a very uniform disease.
In modified form, however. it presents
many Irregularities. Varioloid distin-
guishes itself by abnormalities In every
stage of the disease. AS most of the
cases are due to incomplete protection
by vaccination, the various irregularities
are mentioned by Morrow when he says
that vaccination denaturalizes small
poX, deranges the original order of the
disease. and effaces it's most distinctive
features
! TIL true eruption of smallpox appears
upon the third day after the initial Chill.
1t is maculated, not p%unctate like that of
scarlatina, but darker than the scarlet of
scarlatina and lighter thar the dusky
hue of measles. 1t is seen first upon the
scalp and upper part of the face, spread
ing downward regularly and rapidly; 1t
does not spare the nose or region Of the
mouth. 1t yields a peculiar feeling Of
hardness as OF shot under the skin. Ele-
walton into papules occurs during the
first day.
Vaccination, if it could be rigidly en-
forced, would render superfluous all 9TH
er prophylaXis, including isolation, ac-
cording to DR.. Whitaker, professor in
the medical college of Ohio at Cincinnati.
'Inoculation. which it substitutes, has
only historical interest. Vaccination
and revaccination. if they could be made
compulsory, would eventually eradicate
the disease: thus but a single case of
smallpox has occurred in the German
army during the past fifteen years"
These words We're written by DIR. Whit
taker in a treatise on vaccination in 1893.
HISTORY or THE PLAGUE.
James T. Whitaker mentioned above,
is an eminent physician who has devoted
much study to smallpox and v~aecinating.
He contributed, in 1898, essays on these
subjects in a work entitled An Ameri-
can Hand Book of the Theory and Prac-
tice of Medicine" edited by William Pep
per, NJ. D., L.. l.. D. Running through
the pages of this excellent and accurate
work, We learn that smallpox has existed
from time immemorial in India. where
temples were built and goddesses wor-
shipped, and where. more to the purpose
the Brahmins practiced incubation il
protection against it. Accounts of it in
AiIlca GATE also from the most remote
antiquity, and the great susceptibility oil
the negro race lends color to the view
that the disease may have originated ir
those lands.
Smallpox entered England in 1241, Ice
land in 1906, but did not reach Germany
and Sweden until toward the close Of the
hfteeenth century. 1t was imported tC
America first to the West Indies in 1907
eYtermilatinp whole "a oaS IF pn,iuas,
next by Spanish troops into Mexico ir
1920, where it carried off three and a hall
millions of people. In the United States
1t reached Boston from Europe in 1649
and, though decimating the Indians ir
every direction, made lLlt slow progress
and limited ravages Nnong the white
races because of the introduction of vac.
cination in 1888, the period of
ing western migration. Thus it did no