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Small-pox the
Small-poo.-The facts relating to this most contagious
Imperative as the duty is that every soldier and every
most dreaded in-
fection until JEN-
malady are too well understood to need any statement of
person employed in the army should be protected by vacci-
NER'S discovery.
them in this paper. It is the most strongly marked type of
nation, that duty has been and will continue to be so
frequently neglected and so unreliably executed, that officers
The duty of vac-
specific poisons, and the certainty of its contagious quality,
cinating apt to be
and the liability of its infectious diffusion, made it the
in charge of troops-especially if they be recruits freshly
neglected or care
lessly perfo"med.
scourge of the civilized world until Jenner discovered the
from the rural districts-will need to be watchful against
prophylactic power of vaccinia or the cow-pock.
the outbreaks of small-pox, and to be prepared promptly to
Du ies of the
medical officer.
Vaccination: and
The value of vaccination in armies has been lucidly set
institute effectual measures. not only of domestic quarantine
its value in ar-
mies.
forth, and in a very practical manner enforced, in a special
for infected persons and things, but of such thorough re-
report or monograph upon the subject Medical Document,
examination and re-vaccination as may be found necessary
E], by a committee of associate members of the Sanitary
for the permanent protection of all from the variolous in-
Commission. Cordially commending to surgeons and com-
fection. However thorough may have been the previous
Constant watch-
Report of Prof's.
fulness against
Smith and Stillé.
manding officers that valuable embodiment of information
inspections and vaccinations in a given company or corps,
the appearance
of small-pox.
upon the subject of vaccination and the protection it affords,
the possibility of some defects in such duty, as well as the
we will here quote the concluding sentences of that report
probabilities of the presence of new and unprotected persons,
render it expedient to repeat such measures.
To officers in charge of recruits for the army, we earnestly
Importance of
Conclusions of
"1st. That primary vaccination is a positive protection,
early vaccination
that report.
recommend that, at the earliest practicable hour after reach- of
recruits.
within certain limits, against small-pox. 2d. That there is
a period of life when that influence declines, and that the
ing the first place of rendezvous, all men in their care be
history of epidemics teaches that small-pox will attack a
effectually protected by vaccination.
variable proportion of the vaccinated if exposed to its
General sanitary measures, and the isolation or domestic
The necessity
of special sani-
quarantine of patients and their clothing, should apply alike
tary regulations
influence. 3d. That the mere possibility of such a de-
to prevent the
cline renders reprotection necessary. 4th. That in re-vac-
to small-pox, measles, scarlatina, and other febrile conta-
spread of the ex-
anthematous dis-
cination we have an almost infallible restorer of that protec-
gions ; and, notwithstanding the fact that certain epidemic
eases.
tion and preventive of the spread of variolous epidemics.
influences may prevail, it is not the less true that intelli-
Hence, that re-vaccination in all bodies exposed to variolous
gently directed sanitary measures against th e sources of these
contagion is imperatively demanded. 5th. That the opera-
nuisances are sure to be rewarded with good results. The
tions of vaccination and re-vaccination are unattended with
value of such measures against typhus and gangrene are
danger to those subjected to them. The committee would
popularly conceded, and the following cases will serve to
therefore earnestly recommend that the Sanitary Com-
illustrate the importance and utility of specific measures to
Extensive prev-
alence of both
mission make such representation to the proper authorities as
limit the prevalence of exanthematous diseases in camps :
small pox and
measles in a reg-
will secure the re-vaccination of all soldiers who cannot prove
A short time previous to the battle of Chancellorsville, the
iment in the field.
its performance upon them within the previous five years
regiment of Maine volunteers had in hospital and upon
and that arrangements be made by which good vaccine virus
its sick list, upwards of eighty cases of small-pox. The
may be distributed by their agents to the medical officers."
same regiment had thirty men sick with measles at one
[Signed.]
FRANCIS G. SMITH, M.D., Ch'n.
time on its hospital roll at Antietam a few days subsequent
ALFRED STILLE, M.D.
to the great battle there, in September, 1862. Orders for
The results of
transportation, from its first rendezvous, to join the army
neglecting sani-
were received while the measles were beginning to appear
tary measures.
in one company. No timely and effectual measures were
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