An address to parents on the present state of vaccination in this country : with an impartial estimate of the protection which it is calculated to afford against the small-pox / by a candid observer [i.e. John Conolly].

  • John Conolly
Date:
1822
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Credit: An address to parents on the present state of vaccination in this country : with an impartial estimate of the protection which it is calculated to afford against the small-pox / by a candid observer [i.e. John Conolly]. 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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    chance of taking it in after-life, or of escaping it, as make sure of it while he is young. There is no reason whatever for believing that the inoculated small-pox, after vaccination, is at all milder than the casual small-pox so occurring. A case in point may be found in Dr. Stokes's pamphlet, page 44. Two boys, who had been vaccin- ated in India, were afterwards tested in Ireland, by inoculation with small-pox mat- ter. The elder boy, of good constitution, resisted, though there was considerable local inflammation. The younger, who was of a delicate habit, took the disease, but it ran a course precisely similar to that of the common modified small-pox. The only way then, that can be relied on, of increasing the security of vaccination, is the adoption of means whereby the diffu- sion of small-pox contagion may be lessen- ed. We are to look upon small-pox as they do in Edinburgh upon typhus fever, and in all European countries upon the plague. We are to lessen the chance of exposure to contagion, by the encourage- ment of hospitals expressly appropriated
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