Volume 1

History and pathology of vaccination / by Edgar M. Crookshank.

  • Crookshank, Edgar M. (Edgar March), 1858-1928.
Date:
1889
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Credit: History and pathology of vaccination / by Edgar M. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    during the long period of forty years, 1 was exceedingly anxious to procure some fresh from the cow, for the purpose of having my own children revaccinated.” And, again, speaking of his experiences up to 1845, Badcock wrote :— “From whatever cause it may arise, the fact has been of late years already ascertained, that the ordinary vaccine virus has lost a great deal of its protective power against Small Pox. A greater number of cases in which that disease has occurred after vaccination are met with than formerl}^ and in some instances those are very severe, and occasionally even terminate fatally.” In fact, an alteration in the quality of the lymph had now become one of the stock apologetics for Cow Pox failures, and the profession was still persuaded to believe in “that most precious boon of Jenner to a suffering world.” According to Badcock,^ similar experiences were met with abroad. Out of 547,646 vaccinated, 11,773 were attacked with Small Pox, 1,294 became disfigured or infirm, and 1,379 died in consequence of the disease. Indeed, in France, vaccination was credited with havina: no effect over malignant Small Pox; while in England, when a less malignant variety attacked the vaccinated, the argument was used that if it had not been for vaccination the attack might have been v^^orse. Even Ceely,' one of the most accurate obervers. ' Vol. ii., p. 517. - Vol. ii., p. 565.