Vaccination impartially reviewed : being one of the prize essays sent in to the Ladies' Sanitary Association / by Ferdinand E. Jencken.

  • Jencken, Ferdinand Edward, 1823-1881.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Vaccination impartially reviewed : being one of the prize essays sent in to the Ladies' Sanitary Association / by Ferdinand E. Jencken. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    vious, therefore, that, in order that the health and well-being of the organism should be established, an uninterrupted and normal relation of the skin to the outer and inner world should subsist; and hence it is that during the earlier period of life the cuta- neous surface has to become habituated to so many- unkindly influences, giving rise to the numerous eruptions to which children are so commonly ob- noxious. But, besides the action of the atmosphere, or that of heat, cold, moisture, electricity, &c., there are other more subtle elements of which we know no more than that they seem to constitute a neces- sary condition in the air, and to which it is requisite that the skin should become befriended if the course of its development is to continue uninterrupted; hence their invasion is invariably followed by a con- stitutional disturbance or sickness, which, when over, leaves the system, and the skin in particular, in so altered and modified a condition as to be able to endure their presence without any further ill-effect. Such are the eruptive diseases of childhood, as measles, scarlatina, smallpox, &c., and also hooping- cough, which is by many regarded as an exanthem of the respiratory organs. The immunity afforded by these maladies is indeed truly remarkable, and can only be explained upon the supposition that, as they are evils necessarily to be endured for the fuller
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