Vaccination and vaccine virus.

  • Martin, Henry A. (Henry Austin), 1824-1884.
Date:
[1861?]
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Credit: Vaccination and vaccine virus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in America — the few good ones here before having been imported from Edin- burgh and Germany. Notwithstanding their fragility they can be safely sent by mail, no accident having happened to any of those which I have sent, though some of them have gone as far as Georgia, Texas, and Havana. I have, after trying every other method of vaccinating, adopted and partially invented a mode of performing that operation which has been extensively followed in this neighborhood, and which I know, when properly done, to be perfectly painless, taking less time, to be less troublesome, and vastly more certain than any other.* Instructions for vaccinating in this mode accompany each parcel of lymph. Another trifling contrivance, is that of a neat, flat, metallic box, in which the lymph, whether on quill* or in crusts or tubes, can be safely packed and sent by mail, and in which the virus can bi very conveniently carried, either in the pocket or pocket-book. * See article How to Vaccinate, in Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, March 22, I860. COMMENDATORY REMARKS, &c. From Letters of Correspondents. It is no slight or agreeable task to collate a vast heap of old letters. If I thought it necessary, I could, by doing so, obtain ten times as many extracts as follow. I hope that those I have collected will be sufficient. I would again state that in no instance were these compliments solicited. Also, that they are not confined to any particularly lucky season, but extend over the whole time that I have been engaged in the business. The 7th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 16th, 17th, 20th, and 26th Extracts demand particu- lar attention. (1.) From Dr. W. B. Fifikld, Weymouth, Mass. Sept. 25, 18,59. * * * * 0ne person aged 70, who had a fine scar of previous vaccination, done perhaps fifty years ago, was vaccinated with one of the scabs you gave me. I have never seen a finer vesicle, even on a young child, than was produced. (2.) From Dr. F. A. Howe, Newburyport, Mass., Oct. 15, 1859. » « * * '<The quills you sent me a few months since, approved good.