Exit Dr. Jenner : a speech at the Annual Meeting of the National Anti-Vaccination League in Caxton Hall, Westminster, on 27th February, 1906 / by C. Creighton.

  • Charles Creighton
Date:
1906
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Credit: Exit Dr. Jenner : a speech at the Annual Meeting of the National Anti-Vaccination League in Caxton Hall, Westminster, on 27th February, 1906 / by C. Creighton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    who wrote to The Lancet a short time ago, pointed out that if you were to follow all the directions of the contract for asepsis and the like you were taking the very means to have no#scars at all. Such “ vaccination ” leaves but a red stain of the skin, which fades after two or three weeks and finally disappears. I don’t say that applies to every child’s arm in the country. Especially in Scotland at the present time there are plenty of the old cowpox marks to be seen, because they have never adopted a supply of glycerinated calf lymph there, and do not want it. But in England the- kind of matter supplied to the public vaccinators does not- produce the old marks, and I say these marks are the real test of cowpox, and the other kinds of marks, or no marks, are the proofs of smallpox. That is a fair indication of what is going on. Then it so happens—you cannot always get illustrative cases, you cannot always get proof to the point —but a strange thing happened two or three years ago at a public school not a hundred miles from Godaiming, of which the name is not allowed to be mentioned. Batches- of tubes were sent down, 48 tubes in a batch or 24 tubes, and two boys were re-vaccinated from each tube. Nothing went wrong among them all except in the case of a boy aged 15 who belonged to the North. He left for the Christmas holidays on the 16th December, having been re-vaccinated on the 5th. He happened to be suffering from mumps about the time he left for his home. After his arrival he was for several days recovering from an attack of mumps, which had been epidemic in the school. On Christmas Eve, 19 days from his re-vaccination, he broke out in an eruption of smallpox. There was no doubt about the diagnosis ; it was a fairly mild attack of smallpox, although the eruption seems to have been copious. It was two months before he
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