A manual of animal vaccination : preceded by considerations on vaccination in general / by E. Warlomont ; translated and edited by Arthur J. Harries.

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1885
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Credit: A manual of animal vaccination : preceded by considerations on vaccination in general / by E. Warlomont ; translated and edited by Arthur J. Harries. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE. I PUBLISHED, in 1883, a Treatise on Vaccine and Vacci- nation, Human and Animal,* in which I discussed all the aspects of this important question, which engages to so great an extent those who concern themselves with the progress of hygiene in its relations to human prophylaxis. In my preface, I justified as follows my interference in this matter:— For eighteen years, placed at the head of various institutions, official or otherwise, established for the purpose of animal vaccination in Belgium since the year 1865, I have vaccinated every year at least seven or eight hundred children, and distributed, at home and abroad, large quantities of lymph, animal and humanized, the destinies of which I have often been able to trace. So much for experience. My position and duties are recited on the title-^age. As for my age, the century was but twenty years old when I was born. This commencement, all personal as it is, is suggested to me by those words that Bousquet, whose name I shall frequently quote, has written in the preface to the second edition of his memorable work :— In medicine, it IS as a rule desirable to understand thoroughly the position and character of an author. His position, shows us the possibility of his having seen all he describes; his character, vouches for the fideUty of his narration. * One Yolurne 8vo, with a Lithogi-aphed Plate. Paris • J B Bailhfire et Fils. Brussels: Mme. Manceaux. 1883.