Good vaccine lymph : an inquiry as to what extent it is desirable to employ heifer vaccination, with details of that method / by John Greene.

  • Greene, John
Date:
1871
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    tion rooms have been crowded, day after day, with persons for re-vaccination, and I have performed many hundreds, : scarcely ever failing to produce some effect, and in many, very many, instances the vesicles have been all but ] perfect, like the vesicles of a first vaccination. I have lately supplied a large quantity of lymph to I medical men for re-vaccinations, and they report that it >almost always succeeds. During the month of April, I re-vaccinated 30 fadults, in 2 there was no effect; they had been vacci- mated successfully seven years ago; in 3 there were (only slight pimples; 25 succeeded, that is to say, an Babortive vesicle of some sort was formed in the least fsuccessful cases, whilst in others the vesicle proceeded 1 till it closely approached to the character of one produced iin a primary vaccination with old lymph. Mr. Marson, at the small pox Hospital, has several ttimes superseded his old lymph by new, and no doubt with his skill and opportunity of selection is enabled to ikeep it a long time without change; but, according to his Dwn showing, the day will come when the results will be iess satisfactory, and he will again need a new stock; )Dut long before there is any very marked deviation it is ^probable that the lymph has commenced to deteriorate, or if the deviation is marked tlie opportunity of a new