Rocky Ford enterprise., 1902-03-14

uut ~ ntuktV CAtHF oA ki' eA"Tst''s .. ssssNs
iioas-s ui,iy tho unsacciusi"i h'c,nosfs
ot the f.inilir. cau..nt the discai-s'. -.
II. fritcIiati. II. -.
-!Ns to tho cihi... thai vaccination does
not prui-ct a.;ss,i,st all ssri-i.ra "s -sii ALL
t-ua, .ricli claiin n aiiauni WHEN roa,ih. !.
ir.,n u ni-sio-f of tue pgvfcesi.'a a. tn,
vvr.siiy nud enthusiastically pn,,-cissd az
III. inrrnu-is al the u,riic,i pn,.'s~rion
i.:.:c b-vn by vaccination. Onc hundsss'l
thousand doctors have probably bcru -x'
posed to smallpox va this country durin,.
ihc pa.t two Year,. ansi thu-c contr.,ctins.
the disease wouid probably no, punos
"a dozen. .-E. II. Martin. ~. ID.
..Ihc qrirrtion Tor dinrursion IL: What
can he aonr. Sc Hr- puscicsliy .i
.xrvrI Tint rniaIip pox prevails throns ncu'
tic conntry suL that it can be prevented
10 ~ c.,-.-s out ot iUJ by succs~slui vac
c.nation. Therefore. j tniiik thc question
i,rforc us ": What ~ Ia. Dcr, cJurfc Z.
putruc To yet aII Ot tBr u -upi, ia ilis
coautty vac,iiiutcl?"-C. l.. - .ishi. NJ
-.
Tue following resolution uas adopted
at III. i.st u.c.,,iu.: uf tic American t''d'
icui i,r-JcintiuD:
.l;-roIy.u, iSy tho Joint Scc,ions Oh
l'r..ciic. of Mcdicin. aud IL, sirue aud
sat,itary Scir,iv,., fiiat tile DISC ,ss nov
pr.vhii.ug III tns Cnit,-i states aud
called Ia some Instances pseudo small.
IpoN' is gcuuiuc smallpox auL snv,,id b..
,r-nie,i as sncii WIN vaccination and
qanraus,nc by iii bc.,iin .auinpr''ics.'
"Chick.n I'ox is u disease vf childhood
aud ATTACKS by Prctcr-acs young chit
dieii aMnii even suck linSs siu cuitirca
over ten years Of Hssr ATTACKS ar, inirs-
l,isni, anu 4 never SAM an ndnlt .s,iif-riu,s
,Iom chicken pvx. .Eruptions rescino'il.;
cliluil-ii pox IN adults always iuIicst,r
SMALLPOX. -Zeinsscus C!ciopedia u
Me,iiciiiv. tf r
"Ch,cSen pox is essentially n disease
of EARL iii,,, occurring almost exclusively
in iui.,n,s and .o,ii,s, cuiiLfcn. -Pcp-
pers System of Medicinc.
"Chickcn rox Is II disease OF childhood,
aud rarely attacks any auJv. tea years
OF uge.r Practice of Mcdicine, Inr-
tho!omew. 'f- Osf sHn
Supplementary oI .uc above, DIR. Sig
man Illus referred the Euterprise to nn
article III the Saturday Evening Post OF
March $. by Joseph MuFdrh,nd. NJ, d..
Professor of Pathology III tue Mtdicp
Cbirurgical College, Philadelphia, very
high medical authority. In TINS article,
which will wei! repay reading by those
Interested i'll the subject oi vaccination,
the matter Is tualiy summed up as fol-
lows: f.tl ,t M
From these facts we must arrive ut
the conclusion that vaccination is based
upon strictly scicn,iii. principles. and
that the phcnoincn, attending 1t are In
strict nccor,itncs with tiiOsc uf cvory
ether infectious disc ise; that Vaccination
produces immunity against smallpox;
that some persons possess TINS Immunity
naturally aud are, therefore, unaided by
vaccination; that II few persons possess
the natural immunity to vaccinia and
cannot be vaccinated, but that the great
majority of persons hre susceptible to
both discusses and eau be vaccinated aud
repeatedly vaccnated, and are thereby
protected against smallpox; that the oc-
curIence oi occisiouul dccluents through
the operation Of vaccination Is inevitable,
but that such accidents are rare cousid-
eriny the total number of persons vacci-
mated. and that at the present time many
uf them ARE entirely nexcusablc aud de-
pend upon the carelessness of the opera
tor or lie patient