Prevention Of Smallpox Research Articles

Mr. Bernard Shaw on Small-Pox Prevention

Mr. Bernard Shaw on Small-Pox Prevention

PROGRESS OF THE ANTIVACCINATION MOVEMENT.

The English politicians probably did not realize how far-reaching would be the influence of their action when they passed a vaccination bill with a conscience clause. No doubt, emboldened by this compromise measure, antivaccinists elsewhere are assuming the offensive and we may look for a widespread agitation attacking the utility and the efficacy of vaccination as a protective measure in the prevention of smallpox. Already a bill has been introduced into the Pennsylvania Legislature directed toward the repeal of the present vaccination law, which requires every applicant for instruction in the public schools to present a certificate issued by a physician that the child has been successfully vaccinated before it can be received as a pupil. It is admitted by those who are best informed that no single measure has been more potent in preventing disease than has vaccination in the prevention of smallpox; and it would be no less

Professor Crookshank on the prevention of smallpox

Professor Crookshank on the prevention of smallpox

VACCINATION AND RE-VACCINATION.Read in the Section on State Medicine at the Forty-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at San Francisco, June 5-8. 1894.

Vaccination for the prevention of smallpox was the first indication that an animal disease could supervene a human disease; that one disease could modify or prevent another, and that a great plague could possibly be abolished from the earth. It is not our plan just now to outline, even in brief, the marvelous historical record, or the clinical facts as to it for the last hundred years, but only to specify and briefly note changes of view that have modified what we may call the Jenner impression as to it. 1. We have probably come to know that more than one animal disease has the power by inoculation of modifying smallpox. Jenner thought that it was the disease known as grease in horses, modified by passage through the cow, and again in man so as to prevent smallpox. Now it is probable that there are two or three forms of

The Prevention and Mitigation of Small-Pox

The Prevention and Mitigation of Small-Pox

The prevention of small-pox

The prevention of small-pox

Recent Literature Essentials of Vaccination; a Compilation of Facts relating to Vaccine Inoculation, and its Influence in the Prevention of Small-Pox . By W. A. Hardaway, M. D., Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co. 1882.

Recent Literature Essentials of Vaccination; a Compilation of Facts relating to Vaccine Inoculation, and its Influence in the Prevention of Small-Pox . By W. A. Hardaway, M. D., Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co. 1882.