Compulsory vaccination : an inquiry into the present unsatisfactory condition of vaccine lymph, and remedy proposed.

  • Blanc, Henry Jules, Sir, 1831-1911.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Compulsory vaccination : an inquiry into the present unsatisfactory condition of vaccine lymph, and remedy proposed. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    very clearly sums up the advantages of animal vacci- nation. In my opinion/' he says, animal vaccina- tion possesses not only the advantages of rendering impossible the transmission of syphilis, but it will renew our vaccine lymph, giving it fresh youth and strength. That which, after mature reflection, makes me adhere all the more firmly to the cause of animal vaccination, is the belief that, if undertaken on a sufficiently large scale, it will cause vaccination to be so generally accepted, that in a short time an unvaccinated person will be a very rare exception. H. B. 9, Bedford Street, Bedford Square, September 6, 1869.