ONE-MARK VACCINATION.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 70, 4 October 1884, Page 7

ONE-MARK VACCI NATION.

Am >ng the best .ascertained points in the matter of vaccination is the fact that the protection afforded is in proportion to the number and size of the vesicles product, wliic'i leave pitted cic." trices. T.iis beinj so, the parents of childten wlio wish to have them well vaccinated should desire their medical men not to vaccinate in less than four places. The Germans vaccinate in six or eight, and, by so much, more efficiently than we do. Medical men should disabuse patients of the exploded idea tlmt one successful insertion is efficient vaccination. It is only the next thing 1 to beiti" 1 un vaccinated, and is a condition full of risk to the welfare of the patient and to the credit of the practitioner Where unfortunately, onlj <>ne <■>)• two insestions succeed, the parent- 1 .should he advised to have the operation repeated in a few years, especially when small-pox is about. We fear there are some practitioners who hold so the em'ci.'ney of one- mark vaccination. We are told t*iat in one provincial town auti-vaecinationiMst ike their children to a practitioner w!io vaccunt.'-i inasolitin place. We thought fiat such practitioners could not be found. They mibt be too tender in theii feelings. Bui they should reuiem ier tuat they suv discharging a very responsible and public duty unfaithfully and inefficiently, :unl, to avoid giving a moineui's scratch, are exposing their patients to the ris!< ol misery and injury resulting from an attack of small pox ft-iti^'actory vaccination means such vaccination as '' takes" well in four places. — Lancet.