Vaccination : its place and power / by Thomas M. Dolan.

  • Dolan, Thomas M. (Thomas Michael), 1844-1907.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Vaccination : its place and power / by Thomas M. Dolan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    already passed through the human subject; this was done to satisfy doubts, fears, imputations, and perhaps prejudices. The Local Government Board have now Animal vacci- taken premises at 95, Lambs Conduit Street, London, ,y Loraiovn- where animal vaccination is carried on side by side with '^''''^^^^^1^^ arm to arm vaccination. Calves are vaccinated weekly conduiiTt.,'^ with the. lymph derived primarily from a case of natural London, cow-pox. There can be no objection now as to the character of the lymph, and if humanized lymph is objected to, calf lyniph can be obtained. For the past three years I have been in the habit of \ accinating my private patients with animal vaccine. In every case it has given satisfaction, producing well marked characteristic vesicles, the only objection to it has been, it has been more expensive to my patients. I adopted animal vaccination not because I had any doubt as to the efficacy or purity of the lymph I could obtain, but as a concession to the feelings of those who object to lymph or vaccine which has passed through the human subject. I have vaccinated my own children with humanized lymph, and you may take it that 1 would not have introduced into the white plump arms of my own little ones anything which would be likely to harm them, or expose them to any danger of blood contamination. I have never had occasion to regret having done so. The vast majority of medical men—999 out of every 1,000—vaccinate their own children. Do you suppose that they would expose their own flesh and blood to the risk of blood poi.soning, if vaccination were, as it is said to be, the introduction of impure corruptible matter ? Can you for one instant imagine that we are so lost to all sense of paternal love, as to imperil the lives of our own off- spring in order to bolster up a compulsory system of vaccination ? If names be of any value, put in the scales of reason the action of the medical practitioners of the town who have vaccinated their own children, and the solitary example of the practitioner who refuses to do so, and weigh the evidence derived from this.