A Poser for the Vaccinists.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 249, 24 March 1888, Page 6

A Poser for the Vaccinists.

11 Vanity Fair " says : " The vaccinists aresoroty perplexed. Smnll-pox his brokeu out with especial violence in the most vaccinated parts of Yorkshire, and particularly at and around Sheffield. ' It is spreading southwards, and the " Times " has sounded the alarm for London — singling out, with something like triumphant unction, the occurrence of a fe^Y cases in unvaocinated Leicester, with the gleeful assumption — hitherto happily bolied— that "there, afa any rate, it will burst into a blaze. " It is a cry for more compulsory vaccination — as if we were not already overdone with it. As to the .iflected contempt of the "Times "for all dissentients from Jennerism, on the ground that they are so many "ignorant) biggots," it need only be said that the opponents of vaccination number most of the first-rate physiologists of the day, unobtrusive though they be ; and that it is to impro v ed hygiene and precautions, and not to vaccination, that is due the less frequency and virulence of small-pox, as are the extinction of the plague and the restricted area of cholera epidemics. Without penetrating its character, Jenner himself was alarmed at 'the original specific vaccinal ulcer, which many years later startled Bousquet also, and ho was only lulled into a deceptive reassurance by the less pronounced but more insidious effects of Woodville's attenuated vaccine, which has been progressively spreading cancerous disease evor since."

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