Annual Report of the City Inspector, of the City of New York, ...

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Pàgina 417 - Have you any reason to believe or suspect that lymph, from a true Jennerian vesicle, has ever been a vehicle of syphilitic, scrofulous, or other constitutional infection to the vaccinated person ; or that unintentional inoculation with some other disease, instead of the proposed Vaccination, has occurred in the hands of a duly educated medical 'practitioner ? IV.
Pàgina 436 - The author described a good vaccine cicatrix as distinct, foveated, dotted, or indented, in some instances radiated, and having a well, or tolerably well, defined edge.
Pàgina 334 - Among the numerous shocking cases of cowpox which I have heard of, I know not if the most horrible of all has yet been published, viz. of a child at Peckham, who, after being inoculated with the cowpox, had its former natural disposition absolutely changed to the brutal ; so that it ran upon all fours like a BEAST, bellowing like a cow, and butting with its head like a bull.
Pàgina 448 - That, as a matter of safety, it is well for all persons who were vaccinated in infancy to be revaccinated at puberty, this measure being more especially requisite for those who were either indifferently or doubtfully vaccinated in infancy, and still more especially necceseary for those who, though vaccinated, have no cicatrix remaining.
Pàgina 384 - Empty houses and unburied corpses, some within and some without the depopulated houses," are described; and "in one island they found only one girl, with the small-pox upon her, and her three little brothers ; the father, having first buried all the people in the place, had laid himself and his smallest sick child in a grave," raised with stone, and ordered the girl to cover him.
Pàgina 334 - A lady complained that since her daughter was vaccinated she coughed like a cow, and had grown hairy all over her body ; and in one country district vaccination had to be discontinued, because it was asserted that those who had been inoculated in that manner bellowed like bulls.
Pàgina 364 - Although by many it is maintained that the blood of individuals affected with secondary syphilis can serve as a vehicle for this specific contagion, even this theory (if it could be proved) would not exercise any influence on the practice of vaccination ; for both experiments made on purpose (Heim) and accidental vaccinations have taught that without considering the quality of the vaccine lymph, that taken from syphilitic subjects may have been used upon healthy persons, and the contrary, viz., from...
Pàgina 421 - ... these circumstances the author thought that the causes of this remarkable difference might be sought for among the antecedents in respect to the vaccination of each individual admitted, with a view to explain the extreme 'mildness of some cases — the danger, unmitigated course, and even death of others. Smallpox in the unprotected remains to this day as virulent as it ever was. Vaccination, when performed in infancy, affords almost complete security against the fatality of smallpox up to the...
Pàgina 336 - Have you any doubt that successful vaccination confers on persons subject to its influence a very large exemption from attacks of small-pox, and almost absolute security against death by that disease...
Pàgina 431 - The pustules are of unequal size, some shrivelling and dying off, while others are maturing. There is no secondary fever, and no pitting. These are examples of mild natural smallpox, such as have occurred, no doubt, at all periods, to a few favored individuals, and in which, fortunately for the objects attacked, the disease leaves no trace behind.

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