Paragould soliphone., 1921-08-12
Origin of Vaccination Bv H R Partow County School Superintendent.

was practiced by the Chinese 1000
 years before Christ and even among
 1 the Indians it was practiced by the
 Brahmins at a more remote time 4 than that given for the Chinese,
 so let us be cautious in thinking
 | that inoculation or vaccination is a recent or a new thing conjured 1 by the modern medical man for a
 reward of filthy lucre.
 We often speak of Edward Jenner
 as the originator of the theory of
 prevention by the use of vaccination,
 but of course this is not true, but
 1T shall now speak of Jenner's work
 in the field of the study of inocula-
 tion from a scientific standpoint. lit may be said in some instances
 previous or early vaccination, es-
 pecially among the Indians, was at tended with certain religious rites. | The philosophy of the matter was left to Edward Jenner, one of the
 most ingenious workers in the his tory of early medicine. Jenner,
 on the 14th day of May, 1796, just j125 years ago, took vaccine matter
 from the hand of a dairy maid and inserted it into the arm of healthy
 boy of eight. The boy went through
 an attack of cowpox in regular fash ion; then, two months later, Jenner inoculated him with regular small ,pox pus, but with no deleterious re- suits. Jenner made a report of ] this experiment. in his characteristic style, of which he was direct and l forceful He said, after this experi- ment, that the deviation of man l from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seemed l to have proved to him a prolific source of disease. From the love of splendor, from the indulgence of l luxury, and from his fondness for amusement he has familiarized him. self with great number of animals. which may not originally been intended for his associates. The wolf, disarmed of his ferocity, is now pillowed in the lady's lap. The cat, the little tiger of our island, whose natural home is the forest, is equally domesticated and caressed. The cow the hog. the
 sheep and the horse are all, for a variety of purposes, brought under his care and dominion"
 .'There is disease to which the horse, from his state of domestica-
 ton, is frequently subject. The farriers have called it the grease. II is an inflammation and swelling of the heel, from which issues mat ter possessing properties of very of generating disease in the human body which bears astrong relation to smallpox that 1 think it highly probable that it may be the source of the disease. It is un- necessary to quote further from Dr. Jenner inasmuch as he traces the transfer of the disease from one animal to another and ultimately to man but it might not be amiss just here to take Dr. Jenner's final statement, as follows: 'The very general investigation that is now taking place, chiefly through inocu- lation, must soon place the vaccine disease in it's just point of view, The result of my trials with the virus Of the human subject has been uniform. In every instance i the patient who has felt it's in- 1 fluence has completely lost his sus- ceptibility for the various conta- zion and as these instances are now becoming numerous, l conceive that, joined to the observation in | the former part of this paper, they sufficiently preclude me from the necessity of entering into contro- versies with those who have cir culated reports adverse to my asser- tions. on no other evidence on what
 has been casually collected"
 ! In these closing remarks of Jen- | ned it will be seen that vaccina- tion or the theory of preventive was fought by those who had made no study of the matter, but happy for posterity Jenner was born fight .Sn