Vaccine papers : published under the sanction of the Berks and Bucks Vaccine Institution; being an account of the rise, progress and actual state of vaccination. No. 1.

  • Goolden, Richard.
Date:
1815
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Credit: Vaccine papers : published under the sanction of the Berks and Bucks Vaccine Institution; being an account of the rise, progress and actual state of vaccination. No. 1. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of this truth is now universally extended; but, strange to say, Vaccination is more generally prac- ticed in every other country than in this where it was. first discovered. In France it was propagated with great zeal, and all the energies of government were called forth in support of the practice. In Russia, it is calculated by Dr. Crighton (the Em- peror's physician), that upwards of one hundred thousand lives have been saved since the year 1804. In India upwards of eight hundred thousand indi- viduals have been vaccinated in one year. In the Islands of Ceylon and Bourbon it has been received with no less avidity, and been practiced with an ef- fect no less beneficial; From the United States of America the testimonies in favor of Vaccination and the expressions of grateful admiration at the discovery are ardent and unequivocal. In the British settlements, and amongst the Indians partU years afterwards she was inoculated with other children, and had a repetition of the small pox with violent symptoms.—Subsequent to this, Dr. S. vaccinated his youngest daughter, and was himself satisfied that the disease had gone through its regular stages, as was Dr., npw Sir William, Knighton, who took matter from her arm and inserted it in one of his own patients, which produced the disease in a satisfactory manner. —-Two years afterwards she was inoculated with small pox, which she took, and the disease ran through its stages with more than usual rapidity, though its effects are spoken of as inconsiderable Ten years af'erwards this young ladv was attacked with natural small pox, which was clearly traced to the children <>t her female servant who at that time labored under the disease. The eruptive fever was severe; she had a plentiful crop- and on the eleventh day the disease turned; accompanied with fever and delirium She was seen by many medical men of eminence, none of whom entertained a doubt of the disorder being the small pox.