The wreck of the Preussen : a critical examination of the statistics of smallpox on the voyage of the S.S. Preussen, 1886-7 / by Alfred Milnes.
- Alfred Milnes
- Date:
- 1890
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The wreck of the Preussen : a critical examination of the statistics of smallpox on the voyage of the S.S. Preussen, 1886-7 / by Alfred Milnes. 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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![second time before going to sea; vaccinated a third time with glycerine-diluted lymph on De- cember 9th ; vaccinated a fourth time at Mel- bourne with the calf-lymph there obtained. In five out of the six cases the scars of vaccination are described as characteristic, of good foveation and sufficient area. Sir John Simon declares that the vaccinated cannot betray any remnant of susceptibility to infection, yet here are six cases, in the crew alone, of persons vaccinated up to the eyes and still persisting in taking the complaint, ihe doctors attendant was one of those attacked, and suffered severely; and, though it is not so stated, it is almost inconceivable that his was not another case of revaccination before sailing Here, then, we have in this crew a body of men upon whom vaccination had been carried out ad nauseam, and that vaccination calmly disregarded by the disease in its onset. Mr. Thorne may well have forgotten the crew. y Turn we now to the 312 passengers. Here we frofrma,de+I°Ut,Which is l,lausible on the l£LT]f k!nd of case whicb fails not to illumine the official mind with a holy iov There were sixty-five cases with twelve deaths! Of the twelve deaths nine were unvaccinated What more can mortal man reauire P D,,*T i tether, we ^ of tbl S deaths no less than five were of lif-flo *1^1 unvaccinated death counts one , 6 an compare the e ■ ,e‘ wben we information given enables S ? WeU ™ the persons ,wentj](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22447982_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
