Identifier: medicaldiagnosi00gree (find matches)
Title: Medical diagnosis for the student and practitioner
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Greene, Charles Lyman, 1862-
Subjects: Diagnosis
Publisher: Philadelphia, Blakiston
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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proved its efficacy on May 14,1796. As a result of his brilliant workmillions of lives have been saved, and smallpox has lost its terrors in everyintelligent and civilized country. Few remain who deny the efficacy ofvaccination, but they are of the type who would insist that the sun movesaround a stationary earth. Wherever vaccination is required and enforcedby law, smallpox is a negligible factor. Extent and Duration of the Protective Influence.—It should be clearlyunderstood that to be effective and efficient vaccination must be repeated atcertain intervals. First performed in infancy, it should be repeated at the ageof puberty, and always in the presence of any especial liability to exposure* * In the old days the greatest mortality occurred in infants and young children, butowing to the general practice of early vaccination they are now the best protected of theage groups. Pitting.Suspects. Initial rashes. Fever. Cardinal pointsin differentia-tion. A boon. IIOO MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS
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VACCINATION IOI The experience of every physician shows almost absolute immunity to be theresult of intelligent and repeated vaccination however direct the exposure.Furthermore, the disease if contracted by a vaccinated person is almost invariablythe mildest possible (varioloid). The false idea that one vaccination in infancyor childhood is absolutely or approximately protective throughout life is alto-gether too widespread among the laity and much of the prejudice against vac-cination, aside from that depending upon pure ignorance, obstinacy, or more orless ingenious misrepresentation, is the result of the vaccination of the earlierdays when the virus was usually taken from the vaccinated human being,and the operation performed with scant regard for the danger of septic infec-tion. The antivaccinationists still talk of the transmission of syphilis as- ifan innocent heifer could acquire and transmit a disease of this peculiarnature. It should be remembered that even though a person ha

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