The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-03-20
VACCINATION.
Value Of Vaccination in Preventing
Smallpox.
Ne,c York Evening Post.

ministers OF death. Before the dis
covery of vaccination, there were in-
stances Of the destruction of one third
Of communities that it visited, leaving
terrible traces of its power in the sur
yivors. 1t was reckoncd that one
third of all the blind had been made
so through its agency, and Macaulay,
In depicting the melancholy condition
Of England in the early part Of the
eighteenth century, said Smallpox
was always present, filling the church
yards with corpscs, leaving in those
whose Ives it spared the hidcous trace
of its power, turning the babe into
changcling at which its mother shud-
dered, and making the eyes and cheeks
Of the bctrothcd maiden objects of
horror to her lover" Even in the
later years OF that century, the recent
ly deceased Mrs. Croasdale testified
that so rare was it to meet a person
who was not pitted he was pointed
out as having Smooth face" just
as now We notice and mention person
whose face is marked with smallpox.
Il is difficult for US. who live sercnely
and safely in protected, i. c. vaccina-
ted communities, to realize that if
that bene6cient precaution were omit
ted we should be just as much at the
mercy of this scourge as people were
two hundred years ago.
About ten years ago a member of
the English Parliament, who was
yacht owner, thought he would like to
make vacation trip to some QUITO
the way place, which had not been cx-
plored and exploited in the newspa-
pers and magazines. He shaped his
course for the considerable town of
Ceara, in Brazil, thousands of miles
from Rio. He saw that the cemetery
looked like u newly ploughed field,
and found that fer more than year
an epidemic of smallpox had been
population of 10000 had died, and
that the survivors had meekly bowed
to visitation Of God," whose pun
ishments they could not comprehend,
and whose supposed DEGREES they
knew not how to defy. The census of
Galveston gave little over 81 900
persons, and It'll rcckoned that 2O, 900
are now in the city, so that the de
struction of life at Ceara was greater,
.hough spread over several months,
instead vf coming in one awful in
slant.
No race or climate is exempt, and it
vas left to the dusky sous of the
Orient or to the more dusky sons of
interior Africa, to discover way of
combating it's ravages, for they learn
cd the mitigating effects of the virus,
if voluntarily inserted under the skin,
IN the operation known as iuoculation
for smallpox, which was one Of the
steps that led up to vaccination. Cot
ton Mather combined the Office of
minister and medical writer (he was
physician) and in bis "Angel Of Be-
thesda' (about 1924 he has a chapter,
"Variolae," in whiehhe says: "There
is wonderful practice lately used in
several parts Of the world, which,
indeed, is not yet become common in
our nation; was first informed of it.
by Garamantee servant (slave) Of my
own, long before l knew that any Eu-
ropeaus Or Asiatics had the least 40
quaintance with it, and some years
before l was enriched with the COM
munication of the learned foreigners,
whose accounts found agreeing with
what l received of my servant, when
he showed mo the scar of the wound
made for che operation; and said that
no person ever died of the smallpox
III their country, that had the conreg-
90 use it. / have since met with
considerable number Of these Afri-
cans, who all agree in one story; that
'in their country great many die of
che smallpox; but now they learn this
Wy, people take juice Of smallpox
ED cutty-skin, and put in q drop;
sren By md by little sicky, sicky;
tren very little things like smallpox,
ID nobody dy of it; and nobody have
nallpox any more Thus in Africa,
where tn poor creatures die Of small
pox, like rotten sheep merciful God
has taught them an infallihle preser-
vative. Tis common practice and
attended with CONSTANT success
Why Mr.. Mather personally had no,
put his knowledge to pr=c:;ca, tes,
in the great epidemic in Boston of
1721, in which thousand persons had
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