Vaccination : its natural history and pathology : being the Milroy lectures for 1898 delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London / by S. Monckton Copeman.

  • Copeman, S. Monckton (Sydney Monckton), 1862-
Date:
1899
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Credit: Vaccination : its natural history and pathology : being the Milroy lectures for 1898 delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London / by S. Monckton Copeman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Buchanan states that the principal misgivings of the Commission appointed to inquire into the outbreak had concern with the glycerine, but adds that several points in the circumstantial evidence, however, suggest that the Stettin mixture, before glycerine had been added, may have been responsible for some irritation. He further says, however, “ I do not know of any experience in England of inoculation with thymol or thymol and glycerine, but I have heard of dilutions of lymph with glycerine, always from people complaining of the lymph.” In giving evidence before the Royal Commission on Vaccination in 1893,1 was asked whether this statement did not condemn my suggested use of glycerine in connection with lymph supplies. I pointed out, how- ever, that, in the first place, dilution of lymph with an in- definite quantity of “glycerine” of unknown composition just before employing the mixture for vaccination, was a very different matter from storing lymph with chemically pure glycerine in definite amount and of definite strength, the whole being protected from light and air for a length of time before use, and that, in addition, what at the time of the outbreak in question may have been termed glycerinum purissimum, would in all probability at the present day be considered by no means deserving of that term. This latter statement I made on the authority of Messrs. Price, the chief manufacturers of glycerine in this country, whose manager, at the request of the directors, was good enough to put at my disposal his extensive practical knowledge of the details and the literature of this