Skin diseases and their remedies / by Robert J. Jordan.

  • Jordan, Henry J.
Date:
1860
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    symptoms, is not equally preservative against small-pox, as cow-pox communicated in its vesicular stage. It is also certain that small-pox may occur a second time in the same person, and prove fatal. Therefore, it is no valid objection to the efficacy of cow-pox, as preservative against small-pox, that the latter affection may now and then occur after vaccination. In a word, it may he regarded as an established fact that small-pox scarcely ever occurs after vacci- nation, if the pock have gone through the regular stages which have been described, and that the pock resulting from effectual vaccination is equivalent, so far as protection from small-pox is concerned, to an attack of small-pox or to small-pox communicated by inoculation. Hence vaccination ought to supersede inoculation ; for though the small-pox produced by inocula- tion is, as we have already seen, very mild as compared with small-pox contracted in the ordinary way, it is never so mild as to he in- capable of propagating the disease by contagion to unprotected persons. Hence, inoculated small-pox, though attended with little danger to the person inoculated, is a source of danger to all around. In order to effectual vaccination, the lymph