Vaccination creed / Arthur R. Reynolds, Heman Spalding.

  • Reynolds, Arthur R.
Date:
1903
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Credit: Vaccination creed / Arthur R. Reynolds, Heman Spalding. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    22502807184 SUPPLENENT TO ““VACCINATION CREED”’ OT one of the 727 cases of smallpox discovered in Chicago within the last four years was found vaccinated as defined in the VACCINATION CREED. Of the total number, 662 never had been ‘vacci- nated at all, though most of them claimed that they had. Examination of the arms proved that these attempts at vaccination were failures; there was no scar and the patients finally admitted that the vaccina- tions when performed did not “take.” A ‘failure’? is not a vaccination; therefore, these 662 cases had never been vaccinated. Of the remaining 65 cases, 56 had old, irregular and doubtful sears said to be the result of vaccination; but these were not characteristic; they were more like the scars from infected sores or wounds than those from vaccine. Only nine had typical (characteristic) scars; but these also were the results of vaccination made many years before and never repeated. In no single case of the 727 had the terms of the First Article of the VACCINATION CREED been com- plied with—vaccination had NOT been repeated until it would no longer “‘take.’’ If it had been they could not have contracted smallpox. These 727 persons are examples of thousands of 2
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