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Credit: Vaccination : its place and power / by Thomas M. Dolan. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the profession. Dr. Seaton assures us that duly and efficiently performed, the power of vaccination in inHuencing small-pox is almost absolute, but that it acts, not invarial)l)' by preventing, but sometimes only by controlling the disease. The vast majority of those Froiecu the who have gone regularly through the vaccine process, '=^J'>'- are saved thereby from any future attack, however modified or slight, of small-pox. In the minority, who have not been rendered by-Modifies it completely proof against the influence of the small- tiTe^niinMity. pox poison, the action of that virus on the economy is yet so modified by it that the small-pox, as a rule, is deprived of all danger to life, and does not leave behind it those disfigurino- traces which are not the least of the terrors of unmodified small-pox. This is the position of the medical profession. There is no subject on which medical testimony is more unanimous than on the power of vaccination in conferring complete immunity from small-pox on the large majority success- fully vaccinated. The evidence is very strong on this The evidence, point. Vaccinated persons, children or grown up, have lived in crowded and ill-ventilated dwellings in which small-pox prevailed ; they have occupied the same rooms and slept in the same bed with small-pox cases, mothers have nursed their babies who were suffering from the disease ; and yet they themselves remained entirely unscathed. The following instances from my own personal ex- instances from perience are examples of the protective power of p^J;^''] vaccination, and the folly of neglecting it. In the epidemic of 1872, a male patient was admitted from a house where all the inmates except himself had been re-vaccinated. He refused to have it done. All the family escaped. A sharp attack of confluent small- pox has converted him to a belief in vaccination. The following is a striking case taken from the official case-book of the Halifax Borough Hospital. The patients were under my own care. In February, 1882, Thomas and George Kirkland were admitted I](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21362117_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
