The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-06
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test. On the 9th day of Junel721 DR..
/ Zabdiel Boylston of Boston inoculated his
/ only son for smallpox, and in spite o. a
bitter opposition, in which Boylston was
mobbed and Mather had hand-grenade
| thrown in at mis- window. 200 persons ven
| tured on the experiment
] The knowledge Of the Oriental practice
had been brought to England from TUr-
! key by Lady Wortley Montague; and
/ it contained the germs Of a mighty amel-
! iOrat:on Of disease, but it required more
! than fifty years for its general adcution,
and not till fifteen members of the va
/ rieus royal families in Europe mad per-
4 ished within a year were the authorities
/ induced to try the experiment on prison.
! ers condemned TO death. who were to
/ have their sentences committed If they
would submit to the process. III freer
America the practice made It's way much
more rapidly. but still had to struggle
against much opposition. When person
was inocuated for smallpox he gave it
to others as readily as if he had ac-
CURED it in the natural way; and thrifty
physicians set up "inoculauon houses, ="
many towns refusing a license, for fear
of infection to the surrounding country
In the Revolutionary army the ravases
of smallpox were tremendous. In July,
1776. four thousand of our soldiers were
i'll Of smallpox at Crown Point, and John
Adams wrote home to his friends inn
ploring them to tolerate and encourage
incubation. Many people confound this
process with vaccination, which had not
then been thought Of; a recent irteili-
gent writer. for instance, saying OF
Jonathan Edwards: sc left Stock bridge
in January. 175S, *and died
in the succeeding month Of incubation to
prevent smallpox, or vaccination"
Enough has been said to show what a
deliverance was wrought by Jenner's
great discovery. The average death rate
in England was so great that if applied
to the present population 1t would give
5000 a year In London, before 1900,
there were 2.01S deaths in million; in
1899. in a population of four millions.
there was just one death. In 1886 there
was not one death in Massachusetts,,
thanks to rigid school and factory inspec-
ton, and In 1899 there We're but three
cases IN the state of Connecticut, as no
unvaccinated person can enter a school.
Seeing the safety Of the public where
vaccination is thoroughly practiced, one
realizes the merits Of thee decision Of
Justice Clarke Of the supreme court of
North aCrolina He begins with sails
popuu suprema lex" C'The public vel
fare is the highest law'D, and follows
thus: There is an implied assent on the
own individual welfare shall in cases of
necessity yield to that of the community.
and that his property. liberty and life
shall under certain circumstances be
placed in jeopardy or even sacrificed for
tho public good. II a PEOPLE can
draft or conscrpt its citizens to defend
its borders from invasion. it can protect
itself from the deadly pestilence that
walketh by MONDAY by such measures
as medical science has found eficacious
for that purpose"
Tt was Just at the period Of the Amer
scan revolution that elmer in England
already a distinguished naturalist and
physician-had had his attention arrest
"a by the remark of a milkmaid that "she
couldn't have the SMALLPOX as She had
fascinating Of the fairy stories of science
how ne persevered against many and
great discouraeements. till in 17a6-twertv-
i've wears after the first thought came
to him. ''Can this virus be Inserted vol
UNFAIRLY In the human suhject2"-he was
able triumphantlv 10 answer the question
hv taking lymph from the hand of a milk
maid and inserting IT bv two incisions in
the arms OF James PhipDs. a healthy bow
eff e.ght. and then demonstrating its pro-
tecting power by iuoculafing with the
virus. Of smallpox I'm several incisions.
alter scientific researches have demon
strate5 that cowpoX IS the smallpox IN the
COW. but how the virus becomes mod
fed in the tissues 81 the COW SO as 10
produce this harmless protection is one
of natures mysteries, vet the process
itself is the cornerstone OF ali Pasteur's
work I'm producing "attenuated'' viruses
and I'm his original explanations to the
French Academy. he saws. Il asked my
SELF Can Jenner.ze this lymph 80
Now as to the p-eju5ice asainst this
benefceut measure Bactersal0gy has
given as the key 20 the circumstances
from which it arose. There are diseases
nicrablan in origin. which. once planted
sin the human organism. the most skirful
specialist knows only Too wen how power
less he is 10 eradicate and he sees them
60 down tron parent 10 child. "even 20
the third ana fourth generation There (
were undoubtedly seeds OF these diseases I
in some cases planted IN the 'crusts" (
from which vaccine virus was taken N
the only way then known-the arm-to- /
arm vaccination and a few melancholy /
instances OF srest harm developed. which /
We're at once bounced upon By the fanat- +
icaI critics who hans upon the skirts OF 1
every great advance. Among these was
a no5'eman Of great wealth who printed 4
q book 6ued with oolored caricatares /
that out-erod the worst polit ratlacciv /