Vaccination and its relation to animal experimentation / Jay Frank Schamberg.
- Schamberg, Jay Frank, 1870-1934.
- Date:
- 1911
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Vaccination and its relation to animal experimentation / Jay Frank Schamberg. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![VACCINATION AND ITS DELATION TO ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION JAY FRANK SCHAMBERG, M.D. PHILADELPHIA [Editorial Xote—The choice of Dr. Schamberg to write this pamphlet is a most fitting one. Through his connection with the Municipal Hospital of Philadelphia he has had an unus- ually extensive experience with smallpox and has had the opportunity of observing vaccinated and unvaccinated persons after they have been exposed to this disease. He is the author of works on skin diseases and of many articles on the subject in medical periodicals. He is Chairman of the Vacci- nation Committee of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, holds professorial positions in several medical schools, and is recognized as one of the most earnest students of vaccination in this country.] VACCINATION Thomas Jefferson, writing in 1806 to Edward Jenner, the discoverer of vaccination, said: Future nations will know by history only that the loathsome smallpox has existed and by you has been extirpated. The pre- diction of this sagacious statesman would ere this have been fulfilled if vaccination and revaccination had been universally practiced. Despite one hundred years of incontrovertible testimony of the efficacy of adequate' vaccination as a safeguard against smallpox, and de- spite an almost complete unanimity of opinion among scientific medical men of the century, there still remain some laymen and a few physicians who dissent from the generally accepted view. In writing, therefore, on the increase of our knowl- edge of vaccination and smallpox in its relation to ani- mal experimentation and research, it will be desirable to preface the same by a discussion of the efficacy of vac- cination as a prophylactic measure against smallpox. In order to appreciate the importance of Jenner's dis- covery of vaccination, it is necessary to comprehend how extensive and fatal was smallpox in the prevaccination period.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21005047_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
