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

  • Jordan, Henry J.
Date:
1860
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    must be taken at the proper time from the proper vesicle; it must be taken, that is, on the eighth day after vaccination, from a vesicle which up to this time has passed through the regular stages described. If the lymph has become purulent, it is unfit for vac- cination ; it may produce more active local and general symptoms, but it does not protect the system, like the proper lymph, from the danger of small-pox. In order to ascertain whether or not vaccination is being effectual, Dr. Boyce, of Edinburgh, proposes to perform a second vacci- nation four or five days after the first; for he finds that the pock produced by the second operation hurries through its stages so as to arrive at its acme at the same time as the pock produced by the first operation, if the system is being properly affected by this first operation, the only difference between the two pocks being, that the later one is smaller, and its areola less extensive. At a later period, the impossibility of communicating cow-pox or small-pox by vaccination or inoculation will show clearly that vaccination has succeeded. A good deal of controversy has taken place as to the necessity or non-necessity of re- vaccination. Mr. E. Wilson recommends re-