Vaccination impartially reviewed : being one of the prize essays sent in to the Ladies' Sanitary Association / by Ferdinand E. Jencken.

  • Jencken, Ferdinand Edward, 1823-1881.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Vaccination impartially reviewed : being one of the prize essays sent in to the Ladies' Sanitary Association / by Ferdinand E. Jencken. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    its efficacy is generally admitted to extend from over seven to one and twenty years; but where vaccination has been performed upon both arms, and a sufficient number of pustules, say from four to five, have been developed, of which two or three have been allowed to remain undisturbed, its power of retention may be extended over a much longer period, and even through a whole lifetime. Where, however, these precautions have not been adopted, the epidemic of smallpox is of an unusually severe character, and the patient of an apprehensive timorous disposition, I am in the habit of recom- mending a second, though rarely a third, vaccination. In schools, barracks, prisons, asylums, &c., where the infection is likely to spread over a great number of individuals accumulated in the same building, re- vaccination should on no account be neglected, the objections to its employment being incomparably less than the evils that would arise from the dis- carding of so simple a measure. This is fully confirmed by the recent report of M. Danet, physician to the Ministere de l’lnterieur, made to the Academy of Medicine at Paris, though I do not hold with the necessity of re-vaccination after an attack of smallpox. But there are minor reasons why vaccination sometimes fails to be successful,