The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-01-06

claimed as an explanation, that Il
was not cowpox. but some other dis
ease he had transferred from the COW;
in the case of one boy who died, Jen-
nsr said II was the fever" in an
other he said IT was the contagious
fever" aud in one very grave ease.
but not fatal, he said II was erysipe-
las; but when a person who he had
vaccinated, successfully, had a severe
or fatal case OF smallpox, then Jen-
ner had no explanation; one OF
these was Lord Grosvenor's children.
who took smallpox severely, after
having been vaccinated by Jenner. OF
all of Jenner's Work in vaccination 1t
seems he was able to exhibit only
one case, james Phipps, who was
vaccinated by Jenner and afterwards
pus was taken from smallpox pus-
tule and inserted into the boy and no
disease followed, and this was taxi
en- as proof conclusive, that cowpox
vaccination was protection against
smallpox, when it should have been
known and remembered that from
time immemorial, II had been the
practice Of the common people to
vaccinate persons with cowpox pus
and with pus from the pustule Of
person with smallpox and that, in
either case, it often happened that no
disease followed. Jenner's doctrine
was not different from the peasants
of his country. II seems that nothing
was done to clean up the stables
where cows and horses were kept
and 1t appears that in Jenner's time
cleanliness was thought to be unim-
portant or unknown; in fact from the
place picked on the COW to get the pus
Il seems to me the more filthy the
better they thought 1t to be. Before
Jenner's time the peasants methods
OF Inserting the pus was by rubbing
II on with their hands, with Ian
Get or knife or by putting 1t in the
nose: Jerner used a lancet and IL ap-
pears that there is no record in
evidence of his knowing any thing
Of blood-poisoning or the nature OF
smallpox and he made no improve
ment, whatever. over the doctrine OF
the common peasants of his day;
he made repeated and extra efforts
to get the Endorsement of physicians,
but failed completely; but 1t seems
that from Jenner's popularity the
physicians remained silent, except
zone, Dr. Ingenhousz, celebrated
physician and man of science, who
said publicly, that vaccination was
a useless and dangerous practice; but
Jenner was most popular and he had
one advocate in the House of Parlia-
ment. which enabled him to obtain
grants. amounting in the aggregate,
to 10000 pound sterling, a sum
equal to s1s3,600 of u. s. coin; he
claimed to have studied medicine and
had the oxford University to confer
the degree of NJ. D. in 1913; bsliev-
ing this would enable him to obtain
some practice, but this failed; fail
to find any record OF his attendance
of any medical school and he refused
to be examined for degree OF M. d.
Parliament refused to recommend
his doctrine and this so mortified
Jenner that he went home to Berke-
ley. where he was elected magistrate
which position he held till his death
in 1923. From this so called, Or
Edward Jenner's Great Discovery"
the practice of vaccination. has ex-
tended, / suppose, over the entire
world
In 1900 vaccination was first in
troduced in the United States at
Cambridge, Mass. BY DR.. Waterhouse
and at Baltimore. Md. by DR.. James
Smith; these and other doctors took
an active interest in advocating the
doctrine and practicing it, with only
a few fatal cases and all went rea-
sonably well until in 1886 at Attic
borough, Mass. when about 90 per-
sons were vaccinated and 1t led to
disaster; the result was an epidemic
OF. smallpox, panic and the suspen-
sion of business; this was great set
back to the doctrine and practice oil
vaccination and it was considerable
time before il survived the blow, The
cause Of the disaster, | think, was
those deluded people were lead to
depend on a false security (vaccina-
tion) in the place of depending on
isolation and quarantine, and clean
illness.
This wholesale distribution OF
smallpox and other loathsome dis
eases, resulting in the cause of many
lingering deat\s, greatly retarded the
progress of the business, but the
huev doctors finally worked IL back