Anti-typhoid vaccination / by Sir Lauder Brunton, Bart., M.D., F.R.S.

  • Brunton, T. Lauder (Thomas Lauder), 1844-1916
Date:
[1915?]
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Credit: Anti-typhoid vaccination / by Sir Lauder Brunton, Bart., M.D., F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hagberg Wright states in a letter to the Times of 15th January that amongst British soldiers in India systematic anti-typhoid vaccination has reduced the death-rate in the eight years 1903 to 1911, from 4 per 1000 to 0.33 per 1000—a reductior of 97 per cent. If seems incredible, that in face of these facts a certain number of faddists should try to deprive our soldiers of the safeguard of anti-typhoid inoculation, or, as it ought perhaps to be called, anti-typhoid vaccination. There is no cow in question, so it is often called inoculation ; but it resembles vaccination rather than inoculation for smallpox in this respect, that, while it may cause temporary discomfort and feelings ol illness, it never produces a fatal form of the disease against which it is employed as a protection. If our soldiers only understood that anti-typhoid vaccina- tion enormously increases their chances, not only of avoiding death, but of doing their duty efficiently, and of helping instead of hindering their comrades—as they would do if they were ill— and very greatly lessens the chance of their infecting others with the disease, no objection would be raised against vaccina¬ tion, and they would one and all gladly and thankfully submit to it. PRINTED BY OLIVER AND BOYD, EDINBURGH