Exposition of a method of preserving vaccine lymph fluid and active : with hints for the more efficient performance of public vaccination / by William Husband.

  • Husband, William, 1822-1901.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Exposition of a method of preserving vaccine lymph fluid and active : with hints for the more efficient performance of public vaccination / by William Husband. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    connected, in 1848, with the Royal Public Dispensary here, and have conducted the vaccinations at that institution ever since, with the exception of an interval of two years and a half, during which Dr Gilchrist occupied my place. Before proceeding to describe the instrument farther, let me observe that it is incorrect to speak of the tube method, as if there were only one such. There are at least three, than which no three things passing under the same name can be more unlike in all essential respects; and, as much misapprehension has arisen from confounding them toge¬ ther, I cannot better introduce the description of the third, than by shortly describing, in the first instance, the other two. I. The first is a method which long enjoyed considerable reputation in France. It was invented by M. Bretonneau of Tours, and was for a number of years extensively used and recommended by the “ Comite central de vaccine,” and afterwards, subsequently to 1823, by the French Royal Academy of Medicine. M. Bousquet describes these tubes as being “longs de huit a dix lignes, legerement renfles dans le milieu et termines par deux extremites infiniment deliees.” * According to the Dictionnaire des Sciences Medicates, they are only six lines long, and one-third of a line in diameter at the thickest part. In other words, they are fusiform, tapering to a very minute point at either extre¬ mity, and are from half an inch to three quarters of an inch long. No one can read the French accounts of the mode * Nouveau traite de la vaccine et des eruptions varioleuses, par J. B. Bousquet, de l’academie nationale de medecine. Ouvrage couronne par l’acaderaie des sciences. Paris, 1848.