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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    cination, ever since the introduction of that operation, and by authors worthy of credit, French, English, German, Italian, &c. 2. When a syphilitic subject is vaccinated, in whom the dis- ease is in a latent state, syphilitic symptoms may be developed by the vaccine influence ; these symptoms often consist in. general eruptions of a papular, vesicular, or pustular character, but a chancre never forms at the seat of the~vaccinal puncture. 3. On the contrary, if a healthy subject be vaccinated with vaccine virus taken from a syphilitic subject, and the lancet be charged at the same time with a little blood, as well as vaccine matter, the two diseases may be conveyed by the same puncture— the vaccine with the vaccine matter, and Syphilis with_the syph- ilitic blood. 4. In these cases, of which a number are on record, vaccina- tion is first developed because its period of incubation is shortest, and its evolution more rapid than that of Syphilis. The latter appears subsequently, and manifests itself by its characteristic lesion at the inoculated spot. 5. The initial lesion, then, by which Syphilis, following the vaccinal pustule, manifests itself, is an indurated ulcer, with adenitis ; in a word, all the phenomena of primitive syphilitic chancre. The great law announced by M. Eollet, that Syphilis always commences by a chancre, even when' it results from sec- ondary symptoms, or even from syphilitic blood, is thus fully confirmed. 6. After the primary chancre is developed at the inoculated spot, and in the usual period, secondary Syphilis occurs, and runs the usual course, as if transmitted in any other way. 7. When the mixture of virus does not take place accidentally, but is affected intentionally, (as practiced by MM. Spereno and Daumes, by mixing the vaccine matter with the pus of chancre,) the result is the same ; one virus does not destroy the other, but each runs its separate course. S. The vaccine matter thus acts as a simple vehicle for the virus contained in the syphilitic blood, which it divides and dilutes, as a drop of water would do, without at all modifying its properties or its effects.