As to vaccination and smallpox : supplement to "A vaccination creed".
- Chicago (Ill.). Department of Health
- Date:
- 1902
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: As to vaccination and smallpox : supplement to "A vaccination creed". Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![There can be no infection of any kind or severe inflam. matory action if these precautions are observed. The vaccination thus indicated will— if the person be susceptible to smallpox at the time — always ‘‘take’’ and always leave the characteristic or typical scar which, as stated in the Third Article of the VACCINATION CREED, is the permanent and only conclusive evidence of a successful and thoroughly protective vaccination. WITH some persons one vaccination may be protective against smallpox for a lifetime; two vaccinations — one in infancy, another when about 15 years of age — protect most people for life; in comparatively few will vaccination ‘‘take” a third time. The protection of vaccination against smallpox may be positively determined for each individual by repeating the operation from time to time. If the vaccination is still protective, a revaccination will not “take.’’ If it does ‘‘take,’’ it is proof positive that the person could have contracted smallpox if exposed to its contagion. The rule is— REPEAT VACCINATION UNTIL THE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO VACCINE IS EXHAUSTED. When this is done it is impossible to contract smallpox. This is the protection given the employes of the DEPART- MENT OF HEALTH who handle and nurse smallpox patients and bury the dead from the disease, and in no instance, among the hundreds so employed, has any one of them ever contracted smallpox. THE vaccine lymph used by the Chicago DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH is always tested as to its purity and efficacy before it is distributed. The old-time suppurating sore arms, inflamed glands and other evidences of infection never follow the use of this lymph when the operation is performed and cared for in the manner herein advised. During its six years of use by competent vaccinators it has been demonstrated to cause no serious amount of dis- comfort, pain or soreness. Vaccination is thus no longer to be feared, but rather sought for as the only SAFE, posi- tively HARMLESS and absolutely CERTAIN safeguarc against a loathsome pestilence. Chicago, December 1901. [ovER]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32184086_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
