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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
Contributing Library: Emory University, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
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of death amongst prisoners in both sections were not ma-terially different, with this exception, that the heat of the Southern Stateswas balanced by the effects of severe cold upon ieeble scorbutic men withinsufficient clothing. We have dwelt thus long upon this subject, because we have consideredits discussion of paramount interest m the history of vaccination, and ofthe medical profession in America. In many cases, occurring in the Confederate Army, the deleterious effectsof vaccination were clearly referable to the condition of the forces, and theconstitution of the blood of the patients, for it was observed in a numberof instances that the same lymph from a healthy infant, inoculated upondifferent individuals, produced results corresponding to the state of thesystem ; in those who were well-fed and robust, producing no ill effects,whilst in the soldiers who had been subjected to incessant fatigue, expos-ure and poor diet, the gravest results followed. HOSPITAL GANGRENE. PLATE 22.
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Fig. 91/ Arm of Federal Pris-oner. Hospital Gangrene. At-tacked, small abrasion near elbow.Amputation—Death. Ander-sonville, Georgia, September 2Q,1864. From Nature by JOSEPH JONES, M. D. TME NEW ORLEANS UTM.C? 10 UNION ST. Spurious Vaccination: Joseph Jones, M. D. 275 As this subject is of vast importance in its relations to the theory andpractice of vaccination, and in its bearing upon the fair name and honor ofthe American Medical Profession, we have substantiated the statements bythe following illustrations, drawn from nature: Plate 22, Figure 91—Arm of Federal prisoner, attacked by hospital grangene, inthe military prison, and transferred to the military prison hospital. The gangrene at-tacked a small abrasion or scratch near elbow joint. The arm was amputated aboutmidway between the elbow and shoulder joints. Hospital gaugrene attacked the ampu-tation, and death resulted from exhaustion and septic poisoning. The following is the official reportof my testimony, with reference

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