Remarks on cattle plague vaccination / Translated from the French of Dr. C. Pigeon ... With an appendix on the inoculation of goats with the virus of pleuro-pneumonia [by William Young].

  • Pigeon, Charles.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Remarks on cattle plague vaccination / Translated from the French of Dr. C. Pigeon ... With an appendix on the inoculation of goats with the virus of pleuro-pneumonia [by William Young]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    breastbone, turn the goat over and pour out all the fluid contained in the chest into a wide basin or bucket, after which cut out the diseased lung or lungs, cut the diseased portions into very thin slices, then express the whole of the fluid through a coarse piece of cloth or sacking, then re-strain it through finer cloth, and use it as soon after as possible. For a first inoculation, inject about five minims of this virus under the skin of the tail of each goat, as near the point of the tail as possible. If the flock arc still exposed to the contagion, in about a month after, re-inoculate, using about eight minims of the virus. - But- even with this super-refined virus re-inoculated at an interval of one month, certain immunity was not guaran- teed, for exclaims the professor, p. 45 :— As I said before, it cannot be depended upon to stamp the disease out, and I unhesitatiugly state that if the disease should again occur, or if it should re-appear in any flock where it has formerly been, immediate slaughter of the flock should be carried out, as being the only safe and certain mode of eradicating the disease. The foregoing narrative demonstrates in an unmistakeable manner the supreme folly of either Legislatures or individuals giving heed to mere hypothesists and charlatans, who pretend to have discovered that the diseases of men and animals may be prevented or combated, not by the removal of their causes and by the culture of the sole antagonistic force to disease— Health, but by a resort to the injection into the blood of the viruses of the diseases themselves. We are told that Truth is the child of Time, not of Autho- rity. As variolous inoculation, after a trial of 80 years, was