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

  • Warlomont, Evariste, 1820-1891.
Date:
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 Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    If general science progresses incessantly, why should not a practice based upon daily examples counted by millions, also progress? Jenner’s method was scarcely fifty years old when Bousquet prepared his immortal work; it is now nearly twice as old. Then, the lymph posed as the chief problem, the question of the length of protection obtained by its use, perhaps the influence of its action upon the public health ; perhaps, still further, even its prophylactic power. Thirty-five years more could but bring forward powerful facts for the elucidation of these various questions, and have indeed done so. During the same time other advances have changed utterly the points of vantage whence, until then, one had viewed the prevention of small-pox. The labours of Chauveau and the discoveries of Pasteur have given substance to theories until then doubtful, and have similarly upset others. Yaccinology has benefited greatly by the improvements worked by science in the way of modern scientific positivism. Then, a new method has come to take its place beside the traditional practice: lymph, termed animal, is put forward as the successor to Jennerian vaccine. It is chiefly to bring this last method prominently for- ward that I have written my book. The discussion which I have given to questions relating to vaccination in general are only, so to speak, the framework of the picture—a framework become necessary by reason of the extreme importance given to the study of the prevention of infectious diseases, and especially of small-pox, by the knowledge recently acquired in the mode of attenuation and culture of germs. These developments have been favourably received, and in evidence I will quote the following letter, which, on the appearance of my work,