Reasons why the vaccination law should not be repealed : a consideration of some of the arguments of the anti-vaccinationists / published by the Committee on Vaccination Connecticut State Medical Society.

  • Connecticut State Medical Society.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Reasons why the vaccination law should not be repealed : a consideration of some of the arguments of the anti-vaccinationists / published by the Committee on Vaccination Connecticut State Medical Society. 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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    not exist ill the calf and cannot be transmitted to cattle. It follows then that in using animal vaccine syphilis cannot be transmitted by vaccination. The same may be said of tuberculosis, as every calf from which virus is obtained at the present time, in the best conducted vaccine farms, is first tested with tuberculin and none but those found to be en- tirely free from tuberculosis are used to produce vaccine. Recently a large number of tetanus cases complicating vaccination have been noted. Fifty-three cases occurred at Camden, N. J. A very careful and thorough investigation of the subject was instituted. As a result of the investiga- tion by a capable bacteriologist, it was found that the virus was free from any deleterious material and could not have caused the disease. The incubation period of tetanus is about eight days, whereas the Camden cases appeared after fourteen days, indicating a secondary in- fection through the neglected wound and that there could have been no introduction of tetanus germs at the time the vaccination was performed. It is a wellknown fact that in certain localities tetanus germs are very abundant and readily gain access to wounds, even of a trivial nature. Erysipelas is caused by the introduction of various germs into the body. The calf is insusceptible to erysipelas there- fore vaccination erysipelas cannot develop from properly prepared animal virus. It can only be derived from some failure in technic during the process of vaccination or from the improper after-care of the vaccination wound. This can also be said of all other infectious processes which have been reported as occurring in connection with vaccination. With modern methods of vaccination the following figures are quoted: In the report of a series of 100,000 vaccina- tions performed during the past five years there occurred three cases of abscess formation, one of boils, two of ery- sipelas and five of ulceration, with one death. In 5,000 vaccinations in New York City but one ab-