Researches upon "spurious vaccination", or the abnormal phenomena accompanying and following vaccination in the Confederate army, during the recent American Civil War, 1861-1865 / by Joseph Jones.

  • Jones, Joseph, 1833-1896.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Researches upon "spurious vaccination", or the abnormal phenomena accompanying and following vaccination in the Confederate army, during the recent American Civil War, 1861-1865 / by Joseph Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    witnesses asserted that the vaccine pustules had not been pro- perly developed, and were followed by tedious ulcerations. Moreover, nine grown-up persons were asserted to have been re- infected by the children tainted through the vacine pustule. The judgment was commuted in consequence of the opinions expressed by Messrs. Heyfelder and Pauli, two distinguished medical men of Rhenish Bavaria, whose judgment had been sup- ported by that of Ricord and Cullerier, who utterly denied the possibility of communicating the syphilitic poison by the agency of vaccine lymph—(B. & F.Med. Chirurg. Rev., Oct., 1855, from Bull. Gen. de Therap., July, 1855.) M. Viennois* has collected many cases of the transmission of Syphilis by vaccination, and has summed up his conclusions from the data on hand. From his observations and researches it would appear that Syphilis cannot be communicated by vaccine virus taken from a subject affected with the disease unless a por- tion of the blood of the individual is also inoculated. Thus he says : When the vaccine virus of a syphilitic subject, pure and unmixed with blood, is inoculated on a healthy individual, a simple vaccine pustule is obtained, without any near or remote syphilitic complications being produced. On the contrary, if, with the vaccine virus of a syphilitic individual who either has or has not at the time constitutional accidents, a healthy person is vaccinated, and the point of the lancet be charged with a little blood at the same time as with the vaccine virus, both diseases may be transmitted by the one operation—the vaccine disease with the vaccine virus, and Syph- ilis with the syphilitic disease. M. Viennois also concludes that in such cases the vaccine vesi- cle is developed first, and that after undergoing its incubatory period the syphilitic, ulcer, with all the characteristics of a true chancre, appears. The following are the conclusions of-M. Viennois. 1. Syphilis has in many instances been observed to follow vac- *De la Transmission de la Syphilis par la Vaccjnation. Archiv. Gen. de Med. Juin, Juiliet, et Septembre, 1860.