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Title: Contagious and infectious disease: measures for their prevention and arrest; small pox (variola); modified small pox (varioloid); chicken pox (varicella); cow pox (variolæ vaccinaæ); vaccination, spurious vaccination
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Jones, Joseph, 1833-1896 Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823 Pearson, George, 1751-1828 Woodville, William, 1752-1805
Subjects: Smallpox Smallpox Vaccine Variola virus Chickenpox Cowpox Vaccination Gangrene American Civil War
Publisher: Baton Rouge : L. Jastremski
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t per-fect liberty to make use of it for that purpose. With much respect, I remain, very truly, your obedient servant, S. E. HABERSHAM.Report on Spurious Vaccination in the Confederate Army. By S. E. Habersham, M. D.,Surgeon in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States: Chimborazo Hospital, Division No. 2, November, 1863.To Surgeon W. A. Carrington, Medical Director: Sir—I have the honor to inform you that, in accordance with your order of the twenty-ninth June, 1863,1 have received all the patients sent into this Division, with a peculiareruptive disease, supposed to be the consequence of vaccination, and herewith forwardyou the results of my investigation in this anomalous affection. In compliance with an order issued from the Surgeon Generals office, in the month ofNovember, 1862, general vaccination was practiced upon all soldiers as soon as they wereadmitted in this Division, and in order to insure the full protective influence of vaccina- > HOSPITAL GANGRENE. PLATE 24.
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Fig. 93- Hand of Confederate Soldier, pois-oned by prick of pin—** dressing Hospital Gan-grene. W. J. Black, C. S.A., October 3d,1864. -MlNEW ORLEANS LITH.C? 10 0«I0« ST From Nature by JOSEPH JONES, M. D. Spurious Vaccination: Joseph Jones, M. D. 279 tion (not anticipating any evil consequences therefrom), the order was strictly obeyed,and ah the patients, even those having recent scars upon them, were re-vaccinated. Afew days after the insertion of the virus, and, in many cases, within twenty-four hours,the seat of punctnre became very much inflamed, with a deep inflammatory blush aroundit, which gradually implicated, iu the severe cases, nearly the whole of the affectedlimb. A pustule rapidly formed, instead of a vesicle, which very soon discharged an ich-orous fluid. This fluid was, in the course of forty-eight hours, converted into a dark,mahogany-colored irregularly-shaped scab, prominent, and firmly attached at its base.A nark-red areola of several lines in diameter, measuri

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