Vaccination and its relation to animal experimentation / Jay Frank Schamberg.

  • Schamberg, Jay Frank, 1870-1934.
Date:
1909
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Credit: Vaccination and its relation to animal experimentation / Jay Frank Schamberg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    dentlis (population 54,084, of whom 53,645 were vacci- nated). The ages of the patients attacked arc given in Table 1. TABLE 1.—AGE OF SMALLPOX PATIENTS IX WARRINGTON, 177:; AND 1893 Not Vaccinated Vaccinated. Age. 177:: l8!i:_i * Under ] year 40 0 8 1 to - years ■ ■ 84 0 1 2 to :: years :i:i 0 0 :: to 4 years 18 0 ,1 4 to 5 years 15 0 l 5 to ii years 4 0 0 6 in 7 years - 0 0 7 to s years 2 0 0 s to :i years 4 1 1 '.i to 15 years 0 1 I 15 to 20 years 0 1 - uu to 30 years n 1i> 4 ::n in (ill years n -4 r. i Iver 60 years 0 1 0 U11 38 2-i * Under 1 month. In 1773 all of the deaths were under ten years and nine-tenths were under five years of age. in 1893 among the vaccinated not a death occurred under eighi years of age; indeed, not one vaccinated child under eight years of age contracted smallpox. BLINDNESS AFTER SMALLPOX People hold smallpox in great dread with good reason. Not only does this disease destroy life, disfigure and maim, but in the past it has been one of the most com- mon causes of blindness. The early records of the Lon- don Asylum For the Indigent Blind showed that two- thirds ol' the inmates had lost their sight through small- pox.'-' According to Sir William Aitkin. 90 per cent, of the cases of blindness encountered in the bazaars of India arc due to smallpox. Surgeon-General Pinkerton, in the service of the gov- ernment of India, testified before the Royal Commission on Vaccination that blindness after smallpox was so common in India that a new word, Kami, was added to the Scindi language, the word meaning blindness in one eye. Dr. Thomas W. Grimshaw, Registrar General for Ire- land, testified before the commission that the number 0. Blaue, sir Gilbert Med.-Chir. Tr., a. 326.
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