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Title: Diseases of children
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: McCombs, Robert Shelmerdine, 1880- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Children Pediatric nurses
Publisher: Phialdelphia and London, W. B. Saunders company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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andvillages. Jenner reasoned that cowpox had renderedthese men immune to smallpox; therefore, arbitraryinoculation of individuals with the scabs from affectedcows would produce the same immunity in others. Hewas fortunate in establishing his claims and soon vaccina-tion became a fixed custom. To realize the immense benefit it has been to the humanrace it is only necessary to compare existing conditions withthose of a hundred years ago. Now the pock-markedindividual is the exception and epidemics are controlled.Antivaccination societies reason ignorantly, confuse CONTAGIOUS DISEASES 339 syphilis, sometimes called pox, with vaccination, exhibitingpictures of syphilitic ulcers as the dire results of vaccination,and harp on the few instances of deaths following vaccina-tion which have been reported. A few bad results haveoccurred from improper technic and impure serum. Thisis not the fault of the method, it is due to the carelessnessof the physician who vaccinates or of the manufacturers
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Fig. 98.—Normal vaccination pustule on the sixth day after vaccination (Friihwald and Westcott). in making the serum. The risk at present is practicallynil with modem methods of asepsis. In Prussia, wherecompulsory vaccination has existed since 1874, the deathrate per 100,000 of population has dropped from 24.45per cent., the average previous to 1874, to 1.51 per cent. A child, if healthy, should be vaccinated during thefirst two months of life, as the symptoms are very slight 340 DISEASES OF CHILDREN FOR NURSES at that time. If delicate, wait until the child is in goodcondition and gaining in weight. A successful vaccinationgives immunity for five years. Should the vaccination beunsuccessful, it should be repeated until a result is obtained. Method.—The skin surface is washed clean andrubbed with alcohol. Do not use antiseptic solutions, asthey kill the germ before it enters the system and a nega-tive result follows. The upper layers of the skin arescraped o£f with a sharp bisto

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