Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1877 — Reraccination. [ARTICLE]

Reraccination.

There is no evidence to show that revaccination, once efficiently performed at or after puberty, need ever be repeated. On the other hand, the frequent repetitioh of revaccination, which has become com mon during alarms of small-pox, is distinctly to be deprecated. Such lepetitions are, as a rule, futile; they are wasteful of vaccine lymph when lymph is most precious; they tend to unsettle the minds of people regarding some of the best established facts as to the preservative power of vaccination, and they are unnecesssn*. The official memorandum of the Local Government Board on revaccination says: •* Revaccination once properly and successfully performed does not appear ever to require repetition.” The nurses and other servants of the London Small-Pox Hospital, when they enter the service, are invariably submitted to vaccination, which in their case is generally rcvaccination, and is never afterward repeated; and so perfect is the protection, that, though the nurses live in the closest and most constant attendance on smallpox patients, and though also the other servants are In various ways exposed to special chances of infection, the resident surgeon of the hospital, during his fbrtvone years of office there, has never known small-pox to affect any of these nurses or servants —London Lancet.