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On Vaccination^ 



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to the vaccinated arm; the scrofulous tumors healed in the course 

 of a month ; the cow-pox continued to suppurate during- three 

 months, and then the cure was complete. 



Since the introduction of vaccinaiion into the department of 

 Mount Blanc, M. Caion, Physician of Annecy, affirms that the 

 number of scrofulous diseases has sensibly diminished, and M. 

 Bacon, physician at Falaise, that in the hospital for children, 

 formerly filled with scrofulous cases, no such disease is now to 

 be found. Four observers sent varii>us observations^ five of which 

 are very detailed, and have for their objects cases of rickets, not 

 indeed cured, but modified in a remarkable manner, and the 

 progress of which was either stopped, or sensibly retarded, by 

 vaccination. The power of walking recovered, strength in- 

 creased, and the solidity of station re-established, were the most 

 sensible effects that resulted ; and in these cases the numerous 

 punctures along the spines were the means by which they flat- 

 tered themselves with having obtained success. Three observers 

 have spoken of the tinea capitis. One of the observations is 

 detailed, and gives an account of a tinea of a yellow colour, 

 yielding a copious yellow humour, of the consistence of honey. 

 Twelve punctures were made upon the head itself. When the 

 vaccinal crusts fell olf, the crusts of the tinea dried up, fell o% 

 and the cure was complete. Five observes furnish numerous 

 facts respecting vaccination performed on patients labouring 

 under nervous disorders. Five of these are detailed. A megrim 

 which continually tortured a young man of 14 years of age, for 

 several years, vanished after the suppuration of the cow-pox. 

 Daily convulsions, during ten months, in a child of 20 months, 

 which had not been alleviated by medicine, became less violent 

 during the progress of vaccination, and afterwards disappeared 

 altogether. Vaiious convulsive diseases, three of which were 

 epileptic, were suspended during the progress of the Cow-pox. 

 Afterwards they continued to recur, but at longer intervals. 

 Three of them, one of which was hereditary, ceased altogether. 

 In one that had convulsions every day, tl>e vaccination was per- 

 formed during sleep, because it would have brought on a fit if 

 the patient had been awake. The epilepsy disappeared the ninth 

 day after the vaccination. In him, who was afflicted with an 

 hereditary epilepsy, and who was cured, vaccination was per- 

 formed by incision, and the pustules were converted into an 

 ulcer. Ten observers furnish various observations, four of which 

 are detailed, and relate to periodical and obstinate fevers, such 

 as quartans, double tertians, and quotidians. They were cured 

 by vaccination. Two quotidians, with which young men of 28 

 were afflicted, had lasted for ten months ; a double tertian, in a 

 child of three years, had lasted three m.onths. They ceased 

 after vaccination. In four persons afflicted with iotermittents^ 



