Professional opinion adverse to vaccination : British / [W.J. Furnival].

  • Furnival, W. J. (William James)
Date:
1906
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    of those affected, during the whole progress of the disease, as well as during the convalescence from it, or until all powers of infecting others is past. (3) The surrounding of the sick with nurses and attendants who are themselves non-conductors or incapable of being affected, inasmuch as they are known to be protected against the disease, by having already passed through cow-pox or small-pox. (4) The due purification during and after the disease, by water, chlorine, carbolic acid, sulphurous acid, &c., of the rooms, beds, clothes, &c., used by the sick and their attendants, and the disinfection of their own persons The measures which I have suggested would probably, in my opinion, stamp out small-pox in Great Britain within six months or a year.”—{II. I'., Fourth Ueport, ])p. 40 and 42.) Dr. James Copland ;— “ What was then predicted has since been so generally fulfilled, that re-vaccination has been adopted in many places, and has often failed, natural small-pox having notwithstanding appeared in the re-vaccinated, both in those in whom the measure appeared to have succeeded, and in those in whom it failed.”-—[London Medical, llepodtonj, 1828.) “ At the time of my writing this, just half-a- century has elapsed since the discovery and intro- duction of vaccination, and after a quarter-of-a-century of most transcendental laudation of the measure, with merely occasional whisperings of doubt, and after another quarter-of-a-century of reverberated encomiums from well-paid Vaccination Boards, raised wdth a view of overbearing the increasing murmurings of disbelief among those who obsei've and think for themselves, the middle of the 19th century finds the majority of the profession, in all latitudes and