Annals of Medical Practice Volume 9. Ernest Watson Cushing
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Author: Ernest Watson Cushing
Page Count: 380 pages
Published Date: 06 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130440768
Download Link: Annals of Medical Practice Volume 9
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...loathsome disease of much of its horror. Personally, we look upon vaccination as the best means we have of fighting small-pox. and as a means which we should consequently make use of until we can discover a better. The supporters of both sides of the argument would do well to read a very excellent and complete study of the complications of vaccination by Dr. Louis Frank, of Milwaukee, which appeared in the Journal of Cutaneous and Genitourinary Diseases, for April, 1895. The conclusions at which Dr. Frank arrives are as follows, and we have in some measure tabulated them for the sake of brevity and clearness: 1. That a study of ordinary anti-vaceinationist literature would lead one to think that leprosy, syphilis and paralysis are the only complications, whereas, as established by careful and unbiased observers, they occupy a most modest place in the list. 2. That the complications of vaccination are: (a) Those due to the virus itself, (b) those due to mixed inoculation, and (c) the sequalre of vaccination. Under the first heading come nine different eruptions, including dermatitis, vaccina herpetica, erythema and urticaria; none of these are particularly serious. 3. Of the complications due to mixed inoculation, the most common is erysipelas, while the most serious and most rare are tuberculosis, leprosy and syphilis. That the anti-vaccinationists make most noise over these particular affections and consider them to be relatively frequent. Of tuberculosis communicated by vaccination only three cases are on record, and these are of doubtful value. 5. With regard to leprosy, it is not to be denied that such inoculation may be possible, but it may be said that we have, at present, no clear and indisputable facts proving that leprosy has been spread by means o...
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