Disasters from vaccination / reprinted, from a prize essay on vaccination by Edward Ballard.

  • Edward Ballard
Date:
1873
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Credit: Disasters from vaccination / reprinted, from a prize essay on vaccination by Edward Ballard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Dry lymph from prefecture at Vannes, Mahe, vaccinated, . De Norcy, vaccinated, infected (?). infected (?). Marie F. Easnaro, remainedj healthy. I Boulaire, vaccinated, 40 other children, Anna Andran, vaccinated infected. vaccinated, infected. infected. I I 17 other children at least, vaccinated, infected. 1. The Rivalta series.—This series was not, indeed, the first in point of date, but it was the first to attract public attention by the magnitude of the disaster. The particulars were first furnished by M. Cerisse,* whose information has since been supplemented by a commission of inquiry instituted by the Government. I will abridge the account as it may be gathered from the various sources at our disposal as much as is consistent with perspicuity. On May 24th, 1861, a child, residing with his parents at Rivalta, named Giovanni Chiabrera, was vaccinated by a surgeon named Cagiola with lymph preserved in a tube sent to him from Acqui. He was eleven months old. His previous his- tory is that two or three months before his vaccination he had been used to draw the breast of a woman unquestionably affected with syphilis. His father, although said to have been the Don Juan of his village, containing a population of about 2000 souls, presented no trace of any recent or former syphilitic infection. Indeed, according to the account given, syphilis was a disease unknown up to this time in the place. That the child's mother was not syphilitic is shown by the fact that at a later period she was infected from her owner some other child. Chiabrera, then, was most probably infected with syphilis to start with. The *' L' Union Medicale'; November, 1861, p. 259, to February 21st, 1862.
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