An explanation of the causes why vaccination has sometimes failed to prevent small-pox, and also a description of a method ... of obviating such causes / [Edward Leese].

  • Leese, Edward, active 1812-1842.
Date:
1836
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Credit: An explanation of the causes why vaccination has sometimes failed to prevent small-pox, and also a description of a method ... of obviating such causes / [Edward Leese]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and by personal application, I have lately sought out some of the earliest patients, after the commencement in Great Castle Street; and find many have been exposed to Small Pox, by inoculation, as well as by casual infection, who yet have resisted all its powers, twenty-five, and thirty years; giving strong reason for the conclusion that they will continue to be protected the full term of human life. Dr. Jenner s mode of Vaccinating was peculiar. That the fluid he employed might gravitate towards the point of the lancet, he held it as he would a pencil;— he made but one puncture in each arm, and was satisfied, if one only of these pro¬ duced effect; undoubtedly in some con¬ stitutions, the susceptibility to the variolous disease has been removed by such slight vaccination ; in others it has not been so successful: and as Time has held on his course, we have been taught by experience, the propriety of causing a deeper, and more lasting impression, than one or even two vesicles are likely to effectuate: for if the Febricula of Vaccination, i. e. what, in the phraseology of the schools, is