Acute contagious diseases / By William M. Welch ... and Jay F. Schamberg ... Illustrated with 109 engravings and 61 full-page plates.
- Welch, William Miller, 1837-
- Date:
- 1905
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Acute contagious diseases / By William M. Welch ... and Jay F. Schamberg ... Illustrated with 109 engravings and 61 full-page plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![considerable advances in geology, ami in llic knowlerlge of organic remains; he amended several pharmacciilicjil j^rocesses; he was an accurate anatoinist and pathologist; he ex[)lained the cause of one of the most painrui Jiircctions of the heart/ and advanced far in his inves- tigations respecting the diseases of the lymphatic system, and the most numerous and extensive disorganizations lo which animals are liable. Jenner died of an a])oplectic attack on .January 20, 1S2.':}. Twelve days before he expired he wrote: ''My opinion of vaccinatum is prcrisdy as it was when I first promvlrjatcd the discovery. It is not in the least strengthened by any event that has happened, for it could r/ain no strength; it is not in the least weakened, for if the failures you speak of had not happened, the truth of my assertions respecting those coincidences which occasioned them would not Jiave hccn made oid. The Early Practice of Vaccination in Other Countries. Franch.—The practice of vaccination had traversed the wide expanse of the Atlantic and was in vogue in America before it was employed in the French capital. Valentin and Desoteux were the first French writers to call attention to the subject. CoUadon, of Geneva, visited Paris on his return from England, and vaccinated some patients at the Salpetriere. These vaccinations were unsuccessful. The failures were, however, unable to stem the growing tide of popularity of the new inoculation. Dr. Aubert was sent to London in 1800, as the representative of the National Institute and School of Medicine, to obtain all possible informa- tion and to secure virus. In the mean time, Liancourt commenced a subscription to establish a vaccine institute, and secured the moral and financial support of Lucien Bonaparte, then Secretary of the Interior. In January, 1800, Dr. Jenner's publication was translated into French by Count de la Roque. Five years later Napoleon demonstrated his confidence in vaccination by ordering all soldiers to be vaccinated who had not passed through smallpox. Spain.—In the year 1800 the practice of vaccination reached Spain, through the eflForts of Don Francesco Piguilem, who performed the first successful vaccinations in December of that year. Dr. Jenner's In- quiry was translated into Spanish in the early part of 1801. Spanish colonies were supplied with lymph through repeated arm-to-arm vac- cinations of children on board ships. India.—Jenner endeavored to spread the benefits of his discovery into Asia and Africa. He sent his publications and large supplies of virus to India, but the boat carrying these was lost at sea. He was about to start a subscription to send another vessel when he received the tidings that Dr. De Carro, who had introduced vaccination into 1 Jenner refrained from publishing his ideas on the subject of angina pectoris and the causative underlying pathology which he believed to be calcification of the coronary arteries, because his friend John Hunter was beginning to present symptoms of this disease. Jenner communicated his views on the subject to Mr. Cline and Mr. Home, but these gentlemen did not seem to think much of them. When Hunter died, Home wrote to Jenner and told him that the autopsy proved his view to be correct.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2120441x_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
