Contagious and Infectious Diseases: Measures for Their Prevention and Arrest; Small Pox (variola) Modified Small Pox (varioloid) Chicken Pox (varicella) Cow Pox (variolae Vaccinaae) Vaccination, Spurious Vaccination. Prepared for the Guidance of the Quarantine Officers and Sanitary Inspectors of the Board of Health of the State of Louisiana

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L. Jastremski, state printer, 1884 - 410 pagina's
 

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Pagina 170 - have erased from the calendar of human afflictions one of its greatest. Yours is the comfortable reflection that mankind can never forget that you have lived; future nations will know by history only that the loathsome, small-pox has existed, and by
Pagina 22 - was carefully inserted, but no disease followed. The same appearances were observable on the arms as we commonly see when a patient has had variolous matter applied, after having either the cow-pox or the small pox. Several months afterwards he was again inoculated with variolous matter, but no sensible effect was produced on the constitution.
Pagina 55 - these realms. The numbers who have partaken of its benefits throughout Europe, and other parts of the globe, are incalculable ; and it now becomes too manifest to admit of controversy, that the annihilation of the smallpox, the most dreadful scourge of the human species, must be the final result of this
Pagina 14 - It appears on the nipples of the cows in the form of irregular pustules. At their first appearance they are commonly of a palish blue, or rather of a color somewhat approaching to livid, and are surrounded by an inflammation. These pustules, unless a timely remedy be applied, frequently degenerate into
Pagina 15 - pulse is quickened; shiverings, succeeded by heat, general lassitude and pains about the loins and limbs, with vomiting, come on. The head is painful, and the patient is now and then affected with delirium.* These symptoms, varying in their degrees of violence, generally continue from one day to three or
Pagina 55 - arrived. The first experiment was made upon a lad of the name of Phipps, in whose arm a little vaccine virus was inserted, taken from the hand of a young woman who had been accidentally infected by a cow. Notwithstanding the resemblance which the pustule, thus excited on the boy's arm, bore to
Pagina 83 - This disease has obtained the name of cowpox. It appears on the nipples of the cows, in the form of irregular pustules. At their first appearance they are commonly of a palish blue, or rather of a color somewhat approaching to livid, and
Pagina 279 - On the Varieties and Modifications, of the Vaccine Pustule occasioned by an herpetic state of the skin," he says, '• I shall here just observe that the most careful testimonies now lie before me supporting my opinion that the herpetic, and some other irritative eruptions, are capable of rendering variolous inoculation imperfect, as well as the vaccine.
Pagina 22 - Several months afterwards he was again inoculated with variolous matter, but no sensible effect was produced on the constitution. The appearance of the incisions in their progress to a state of maturation were much the same as when produced in a similar manner by
Pagina 340 - Have you any reason to believe or suspect (a) that lymph from a true Je,nuerian vesicle has ever been a vehicle of syphilitic, scrofulous or other constitutional infection to the vaccinated person ; (b) or that unintentional inoculation with some other disease, instead of the proposed vaccination, has occurred in the hands of a duly educated medical

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