The inoculation, propagation and preservation of the virus of animal vaccine. With a description of the appearances of kine pox, and demonstration of the vaccine vesicle upon heifers / By S.C. Martin.

  • Martin, S.C.
Date:
1885
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Credit: The inoculation, propagation and preservation of the virus of animal vaccine. With a description of the appearances of kine pox, and demonstration of the vaccine vesicle upon heifers / By S.C. Martin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that from certain causes it is capable of becoming the very reverse of a reform. The Board of Health of Louisiana writes. May 16, 1882:— ^ Failure with bovine points during the present sea- son has been the rule rather than the exception. The Secretary of the State Board of Health of Arkansas writes, April 28, 1882 : — The trouble in tliis State has been not so much from the bad effects derived from bovine virus, but rather, from obtaining no effects at all. Reports have reached me from all parts of the State in regard to the wwrthless character of much of the bovine virus employed. The Secretary of the Medical Association of Ala- bama, writes, April 30, 1882 : — To sum U23 the whole in brief, the profession here to a man, ^irefer humanized virus to the bovine lymph in any form, and have long since abandoned it. The State Board of Health of Minnesota, writes, April 28, 1882 : — There has been much complaint in all directions. Dr. E. L. Griffin, of Fond du Lac, Mich., an intelli- gent and able i^ropagator of virus, writes, February 8, 1882 : — I fully sympathize with your views on what is being done during the boom to supjjly the demand, and greatly fear that animal vaccination will get a bad set-back from the experience of this season. The same gentleman writes, March 6, 1882 : — Those infernal ' cones ' have done infinite mischief, I believe, in the West. The other day I got a sharp letter from the Secretary of the Board of Health of a neighboring city, upbraiding me on the quality of my virus, saying that it did not give typical developments of pock, but produced enormous sloughs and sore arms,