Vaccinia in man : a clinical study / by Theodore D. Acland.

  • Theodore Dyke Acland
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1897
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    PREFACE The following pages deal only with the clinical side of vaccinia and vaccination in man. The subject has been dealt with from the pathological point of view by Dr. Copeman, and as a question of state medicine by Mr. Ernest Hart, in the same volume of Dr. Clifford Allbutt’s System of Medicine from which this article has been reprinted. While these pages were passing through the press several valuable contributions to the study of the subject have appeared. Of these the most important are :— 1. The Report of the Royal Commission on Vaccination, a Review of the Dissentients’ Statement. By T. C. McVail, M.D. (Bead before the Epidemiological Society, 19th February 1897.) 2. “ Some Small-pox Statistics.” By Sydney Coupland, M.D. Lancet, 1897, vol. i. pp. 510 and 582. 3. English Vaccination and Small-pox Statistics, with special reference to the Report of the Royal Commission, and to recent Small-pox Epidemics. By Noel A. Humphreys. (Bead before the Statistical Society, 19th February 1897.) 4. Mr. Bicton in the Contemporary Review, 1896, and Mr. Malcolm Morris in the Nineteenth Century, 1896, have discussed the conclusions of the Boyal Commission on Vaccination from opposite points of view. Dr. McVail’s paper exposes the weakness of the position taken up by Mr. Picton and Dr. Collins in their dissent from the final report of the B.C.V., and up to the present time no attempt has been made to reply to it. In Dr. Coupland’s record of his investigations into the outbreaks of small-pox at Gloucester, Dewsbury, and Leicester, the question of the protective influence of vaccination is discussed. His observations were conducted with every safeguard against error, and the facts and conclusions which have been recorded in an admirable and con¬ vincing manner will repay careful study. March, 1897. T. D. A.
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