On the protective and modifying powers of vaccination

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T. Richards, 1857 - 26 páginas
 

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Página 23 - Marson, in the performance of 50,000 vaccinations and more, " has never seen other diseases communicated with the vaccine disease, nor does he believe in the popular reports that they are so communicated.
Página 2 - Duly and efficiently performed, it will protect the constitution from subsequent attacks of small-pox as much as that disease itself will. I never expected it would do more ; and it will not, I believe, do less.
Página 23 - Knighton, Herefordshire, who, with his predecessor in practice, has kept an accurate register of all vaccinations performed by them, from the year 1805 downwards, in 5439 vaccinations never met with anything of the kind ; and observes, that in a country district — such as that in which Mr. Marshall practises — it is scarcely possible that any anomaly should have occurred without his being acquainted with it. Our own direct experience would entitle us to go only to the extent of...
Página 26 - Ought really never to occnr ; and that which it specially imports the public thoroughly to understand is, that they are not the results of the due performance of vaccination, but the result of its improper performance, that they are perfectly avoidable, and that they constitute therefore a reason for care in the performance of vaccination, but no objection whatever to the operation itself.
Página 23 - ), that Mr. Marshall, late of Knighton, Herefordshire, who, with his predecessor in practice, has kept an accurate register of all vaccinations performed by them, from the year 1805 downwards, in 5439 vaccinations never met with anything of the kind ; and observes, that in a country district — such as that in which Mr. Marshall practises — it is scarcely possible that any anomaly should have occurred without his being acquainted with it. Our own direct experience would entitle us to go...
Página 1 - In his first treatise, entitled An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolce Vaccines, published in 1798, Jenner gave a lucid account of the disease popularly known as the cow-pox...
Página 6 - Thus, it appears that throughout the navy the cases of smallpox have averaged only 115 and the deaths 10 in every 100,000 men. Considering the manner in which sailors are necessarily crowded on shipboard, and the consequent difficulty of separating the healthy from the sick, their exemption from a disease of so highly contagious a nature affords convincing evidence of the value of vaccination. In the West African squadron, in particular, they...
Página 10 - It is a confirmation of this, that, during seventeen years, not one of the servants or nurses of the Small-Pox Hospital has been attacked by small-pox, though vaccination has been the only protection of many of them.

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