Good vaccine lymph : an inquiry as to what extent it is desirable to employ heifer vaccination, with details of that method / by John Greene.

  • Greene, John.
Date:
1871
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    primary lymph, by this means the use of matter of long descent is everywhere avoided. It is not desired here to discuss the question as to ■whether it be advisable for the Government to introduce • the Belgian practice of vaccination from heifer to arm into this country, or whether it would be weU to do so in part; in a certain sense this has been answered in the affirmative by individual effort, and perhaps it will be well to leave it there and allow the system to find its own level; for the question, whether a certain minority, whose confidence in human vaccination has from various causes been shaken, shall be allowed the privilege of choice between the new and old method, is really of secondary importance. The main point is, that our vaccine administration shall ascertain and carry out some practical plan by which the vaccine virus employed both in public and private vaccinations, shall be uniform- ly active, and of tolerably recent origin; by leaving the event to the happy-go-lucky principle, it is conceivable that in some hands the vaccine vesicle would scarcely show any deviation for years, whilst in others it would rapidly do so, and that from a variety of circumstances over which there may be no control; this inequality would, to a great extent, be avoided by a yearly distribution of new virus. As evidence that the goodness of vaccination does