A Century of Vaccination and What It Teaches by Trung Nguyen

Author:Trung Nguyen
Language: eng
Format: epub

"In another case, a young man, lodging in a house near to where smallpox had been for some time, was taken with a moderately severe attack of the disease, and came under my care as a dispensary patient on Good Friday last. The old woman of the house, who nursed and looked after the patient, was bringing up by hand an illegitimate infant, then ten weeks old, which had been put out to nurse with her. This infant had not been vaccinated; and, though in constant contact with the nurse, and sleeping with her in the room next to the smallpox patient, did not take the disease, and through the neglect of the woman to take it to the public vaccinator, it remained unvaccinated. About five weeks after the recovery of the young man, the nurse child died of general debility. I kept it under my observation until its death, and know that it had not smallpox.

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