Vaccination and small pox.

Date:
[1819?]
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Credit: Vaccination and small pox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    pox which affords no protection. It may take effect in the in- oculated part, may advance for several days, making a vesicle of considerable size, and often a very sore arm, and, after all, be merely an affection of the arm, without entering the constitution, and consequently without protecting against small pox. Hence the important distinction of cow pox into constitutional and local; and the affection, we repeat, may be confined to the local vesicle, , though the most genuine matter has been employed, and insert- ed in the most careful manner. The difference depends upon circumstances in the constitution of the patient, which it would be foreign to our present purpose to detail; but wre can assure the public, that this local affection is by no means an unfrequent occurrence, and that it often requires much attention, and con- siderable experience, to discriminate betwixt it and the regularf constitutional cow pox. III. Finally, to make the practice of vaccination perfectly se- cure and satisfactory, we take the liberty of most respectfully re-, - commending to the gentlemen of the profession, the general adoption of Mr. Bryce’s test. This beautiful discovery certainly places die name of Mr. Bryce, in the history of vaccination, next to that of Jenner, and has given to the practice a stability and a security which it did not possess before, and which, we conceive-' make nothing farther requisite for securing it a title to ui limited confidence.