Vaccination impartially reviewed : being one of the prize essays sent in to the Ladies' Sanitary Association / by Ferdinand E. Jencken.

  • Jencken, Ferdinand Edward, 1823-1881.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Vaccination impartially reviewed : being one of the prize essays sent in to the Ladies' Sanitary Association / by Ferdinand E. Jencken. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the system in an impure form; sad instances of this kind frequently come under the notice of the phy- sician, and many a constitution, originally sound, has been blighted or altogether undermined by the presence of an unrecognised virus, with which the lymph has happened to have been tainted. Of all diseases which may be communicated to the subject by vaccination, syphilis is the most to be dreaded, partly from its exceeding prevalence in every form and variety, being even extended to subsequent generations by inheritance, and partly from the facility with which it joins to other morbific agents, and the insidious manner in which it is developed in the constitution when thus introduced, A very dis- tressing accident of the kind only recently occurred in France, where, according to the remarkable report made by MM. Depaul and Roger, an outbreak of vac- cinal syphilis was witnessed among sixty-two infants (see ‘ Medical Times and Gazette,’ March 2nd, 1867, page 231), a statement in the correctness of which I have not the least doubt, as I have occa- sionally observed the development of an unmis- takable syphiloid eruption subsequent to vaccination. Whether the germs of psora and other eruptive diseases are transmitted from one organism to the other by vaccinia, or whether a subsequent tendency to tubercular, cancerous, and other similar deposits