An Estimate of the True Value of Vaccination as a Security Against Small PoxGreenhow, T. M. (Thomas Michael)
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An Estimate of the True Value of Vaccination as a Security Against Small Pox
Greenhow, T. M. (Thomas Michael)
Smallpox -- Vaccination; Smallpox vaccine
In a late number of the London Medical Repository, Dr. Carter, of
Canterbury, gives the details of a case of secondary Small Pox
occurring in a girl, which proved fatal. And a young lady (a family
connection of my own), who had satisfactorily passed through the
disease, from inoculation, when young, had a second attack of Small
Pox, when on a visit at Liverpool, to which she very nearly fell a
sacrifice. To this mass of evidence I shall add the case to which I
have before alluded, as having come under my own notice. In this young
woman the eruption was confined to the shoulders and face, and was not
numerous, but it was preceded for several days by considerable
feverishness and head-ache; and although it did not proceed beyond the
fourth or fifth day, I consider the nature of the disorder as quite
unequivocal; if what I conceive to be the only true test of this be
admitted, namely, that it was produced by Small Pox infection, and was
capable of communicating it to others. Fortunately this test was left
incomplete in this instance, no other individuals having become
infected in consequence; but the following facts which have since come
to my knowledge, seem to warrant the inference, that this might have
happened had any unprotected persons been allowed to have communication
with the patient.
A lady, residing at Gateshead, who passed through inoculated Small Pox
many years ago, became lately (during her confinement) affected a
second time with this disease. And notwithstanding that it was of the
same mild character as in the last case, and that the eruption turned
on the eighth day, her infant caught the infection. The eruption in the
child was of the confluent kind, and occasioned its death eight days
after the appearance of the disease.
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