Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1888 — Vaccination. [ARTICLE]

Vaccination.

St. Louis Physician. Every parson ought to be vaccinated once in seven year?, for it is well established, notwithstanding aims popular prejudices about disease! being transmitted in vaccine, that the sufferings from smallpox are greatly ameliorated by the presence of the subtle sub3tauce. At the City Dispensary we have been vaccinating from fifteen to twenty- five persons a day with virus that we obtain from farm cows in the vicinity of Kirksville, on the Missouri Pac fi:. Formerly we used a lance, but that was unnecessary and scared children. New we use a quill sharpened at one end containing the vaccine liquefied. We jnst scrape off the outer cuticle until blood appears, and with the other put on the virus. A bloody quill is not a safe one. Home of the children that we vaccinate are only 3 months old. lam a believer in the theory that vaccination is proper at any age. The sore may be located on any part of the body, but the arm is most used, being most convenient for the child. When several children gretO~be vaccinated it Is best to take the larger ones first, as the babies as a rale do the loudest bawling and scare the others who are to follow.Vaccination as a practice iB growing larger year by year.