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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    an indefinite term. The Hanoverian Vaccinators take a small bit of English chappie, which you call, I believe, dry tint. The quantity must be, of course, equal to the concavity of the glass. The pustule then is punctured by a circular or half-circular incision with the lancet, so as to open a greater number of the cells forming the vaccine pustule covered with the same pellicle. The lint is applied upon the pus- tule on the most wooly side, so as to act better as a syphon. It pumps in a very short time a sufficient quantity of vaccine fluid to saturate it as completely as if it had been dipped in a glass of water, particularly if the lint is now and then gently pressed with the point or back of the lancet. When it is quite full you take it with the lancet, and place it carefully in the cavity of the glass ; you put a drop of oil, or a little mucilage upon the internal surface of the glasses; you make the flat bit of glass slide upon the charpie, so as to exclude the air as much as possible; you tie the two bits with thread, and seal the edges. To prevent the access of light, I commonly fold it in a black paper, and when I was desired to send it to Bagdad, I took the precaution of going to a wax-chandler's, and surrounded the sealed-up glasses with so much wax as to make balls. With this careful manner, it arrived still fluid on the banks of the Tigris. Life of Edward Jenner, vol. i., pp. 420, 430. The method so extensively employed in America, of preserv- ing the entire scab after it seperates from the arm, by enclosing it in wax, is not only less reliable than the method practiced by Drs. Jenner and De Carro and others, but it is attended with greater danger, from the changes induced by heat and moisture. Shortly after the introduction of vaccinatoin into the United States, by Dr. Waterhouse, ignorant persons, in New England, not of the Medical Profession, who were stimulated by avarice to carry on a traffic in vaccine matter, obtained the shirt-sleeves of patients which had been stiffened by the purulent discharge from an ulcer consequent on vaccination. These they cut into strips, and sold about the country as impregnated with the true vaccine virus. Several hundred persons are said to have been in- oculated with this poison, which in some cases produced great constitutional disturbance. SECTION V. The Mingling of the Vaccine Virus with that of the Small-Pox ; Matter taken from those who were vac- cinated WHILE THEY WERE LABORING UNDER THE ACTION of the Poison of Small-Pox, was capable of producing a modified Variola, and comparatively mild Disease in