Vaccination : with a view to make it more effectual and free from objection / by Dennis de Berdt Hovell.

  • Hovell, Dennis de Berdt.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Vaccination : with a view to make it more effectual and free from objection / by Dennis de Berdt Hovell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Saturday, on the following Thursday, and so on. But, as on the one hand, lymph, or rather matter, taken from a vesicle after the areola has formed, generates a vesicle in which the areola will form abnormally early in an increasing degree, so on the other hand, lymph taken from a vesicle before the areola has formed, will generate a vesicle in which the areola will be delayed till the normal period, and even in some cases beyond it. I am not aware that this point has been before recorded, even if it has been observed; but it is one of very great interest and importance, and cannot be too widely known and acted on. I may say in conclusion, I am not aware that any other than a modified form of Variola or Small Pox has occurred to any patient vaccinated by me. This is undoubtedly true as far as my own experience is concerned, but many of my patients have necessarily gone beyond my own ken. If Vaccination has so far not actually stamped out .Small Pox, it has at least materially neutralized its intensity and tended to reduce it from a virulent plague to a mild disorder. That it is capable of reducing it to the unknown condition of The Plague, there can be no doubt. Note.—I have often thought that the exhibition of photographs of Vaccination side hy side with cases of Small Pox in its several Stages, would do more to convince those who object to Vaccination than volumes of oral or written persuasion.
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