A new compendium of the principles and practice of medicine : embracing the most recent improvements in the science / by Abrm. Livezey and J. Emerson Kent.

  • Livezey, Abraham, 1821-1896
Date:
1853
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Credit: A new compendium of the principles and practice of medicine : embracing the most recent improvements in the science / by Abrm. Livezey and J. Emerson Kent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is a trae eruptive fever, partaking of the form, and sub- missive to the laws which mark the whole class : they sel- dom affect the individual but once, and leave the system intact against all future invasion of the disorders known as exanthematous. The only plausible exposition of the fact under notice, is that derived from my friend and colleague, Dr. Kent, whose opinion may be thus expressed : The vaccine de- velopment is not indigenous or natural to man ; it is to the bovine, what small pox is to the human—and hence it is never capable of fully permeating, and thereby perma- nently controlling the system, in the changes of its atoms which are constantly occurring. Hence its prophylactic power is gradually reduced, until, by the constant change of its atoms, it no longer remains influential in the system. This view is strengthened from facts of almost daily oc- currence ;—thus re-vaccination may be attempted in any given case to-day, and fail—up to this time, therefore, the subject is safe from the inception of small pox. But a year or two hence, upon the same subject, re-vaccination is attempted and it succeeds—now that man would have been open to the invasion of small pox had he been ex- posed thereto. Dr. Kent is further of opinion that the influence of vaccination is not permanent, like that of inoculation, be- cause the bovine in its motor and sensor forces, is far be- low man in the scale of animal life. The dog is much more nearly related to man in the scale of motor and sensor force, and he thinks it is from this relation that the violence and intensity of transmitted hydrophobia arises. But the subject is one which demands the close attention of every intelligent and philosophical practitioner. In the
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