Remarks on the treatment of small-pox & elephantiasis / by P.D. Anthonisz.

  • Anthonisz, Peter Daniel.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Remarks on the treatment of small-pox & elephantiasis / by P.D. Anthonisz. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    had the disease, and are not likely to take it again. This is one great source of spreading the contagion in villages and crowded localities. 5. —The vaccination should be from arm to arm, the lymph being taken from healthy subjects, the offspring of healthy parents. If animal or calf lymph is to be had, this should be preferred. 6. —It being the practice for natives to carry copper and other coins in their waist almost next to the skin, in case of any coins being found in the possession of a small-pox patient they should be washed in boiling water, disinfected, and cleaned before they are cir- culated. 7. —It has been found that if a person affected with small- pox be carefully vaccinated every 2nd day after the appearance of the eruption, the disease subsides on the 8th day, and that the vesicles do not become pus- tulous, or turn into matter, but dry and scab, leaving little or no marks, and an entire absence of pitting of the skin. In severe cases the vaccination has to be done daily, and in mild cases every 2nd day ; so that a mild case will require four vaccinations, and a severe one eight. This must be left to the judgment of the medical attendant according to the progress of the disease. 8. —The popular opinion that vaccination is hurtful when small pox exists, and that it leads to an attack of small-pox, is entirely erroneous. 9. _The opinion of the profession some time ago was that unless a person was vaccinated within three days after being exposed to the contagion of small-pox, the