Vaccination and its relation to animal experimentation / Jay Frank Schamberg.

  • Schamberg, Jay Frank, 1870-
Date:
1909
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Credit: Vaccination and its relation to animal experimentation / Jay Frank Schamberg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1901 to 1904 between 900 and .1,000 students visited the smallpox pavilions and spent one or two hours among scores of virulent smallpox cases. One of the require- ments was that each student had to show evidence of protection, either by having been recently successfully vaccinated or by not responding to vaccination after two or three careful trials. Of the entire number but one contracted smallpox, and it was subsequently found that not onfy had he never been successfully vaccinated, but that he came from an antivaccination family and was opposed to this prophylactic measure. Fig. 5.—Destruction of the eyeball from smallpox ; it was neces- sary later to remove the eye. During the epidemic of 1901-1904 about 200 persons, including physicians, nurses, ward-maids, cooks, laun- dresses, and the like, were employed in the smallpox department, and not one contracted the disease; all, of course, had been vaccinated or revaccinated before going on duty. Dr. William M. Wrelch, of Philadelphia, says: “In every epidemic of smallpox that has occurred in Philadelphia within the past thirty years, instances have been observed of whole families being removed to the