Vaccininum
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
The lymph from the "cow-pox." Preparation , Triturations.
Authorities.
1 , Schuklitsch, A. H. Z., 4, p. 12, vaccinated a child with the 4th dil.; 2 , Richard Kanstätt, Yearbook, 1847 (A. H. Z., 45, p. 373), effects on children from sucking vaccine pustules in other children; 3 , Le Normand, Hygea, 10, p. 68 (ibid.), a child æt. ten months, took for eight days in succession some pellets of 12th dil.; 4 , Dr. Hencke, A. H. Z., 45, 373, gave a child, æt. eight months, a drop of lymph from a healthy vaccination, diluted with 100 drops distilled water, and well shaken; 5 , W. R. Power, M.D. Philad. Journ. of Hom., vol. i, 1852-3, p. 493, had had small-pox by inoculation in infancy and at the age of twenty had vaccinated himself, from which he had twenty or more vaccine pustules, fever, etc.; on July 12, while attending upon a severe case of small-pox, began taking 2 or 3 grains 3d dec. trit. of Vaccinin in the morning, the same an hour before or after dinner, and again on going to bed; 6 , L. W. Berridge, Am. Journ. of Hom. Mat. Med., vol. viii (new ser. iv), p. 126, an unvaccinated baby took a dose of 1600 (Fincke), twice afterwards was inoculated in the arm with 1600, on every occasion had the same eruption.
MIND
- Ill-humor with restless sleep (second day), 1.
HEAD
- Slight frontal headache (sixth day); much increased (seventh, eighth, and ninth days), 5.
MOUTH
- Dry mouth and tongue (fifth day); much increased (sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth days), 5.
STOMACH
- Appetite gone, and disgust to taste, smell, and appearance of food (ninth day), 5.
HEART AND PULSE
- More activity of arterial action (ninth day), 5.
- More actual manifestation of febrile action of heart and arteries than on any of the preceding days (eighth day), 5.
BACK
- Backache (sixth day); much increased (seventh, eighth, and ninth days), 5.
EXTREMITIES
- Slight but distinctly marked soreness of the lower extremities, as if heated or overexerted (sixth day); aching of the lower extremities, amounting to an almost unfitness to get about in the performance of my daily avocation, and which cannot be better described than by the appellation of a breakbone sensation, i. e. , my legs ached immoderately, and to the aching was conjoined a sensation as if the bones were under-going the process of comminution (seventh day), 5.
GENERALITIES
- Restlessness, 3. [10.]
- A slight but definite feeling of general "malaise" (third day); increase of the feelings of yesterday (fourth day); oppressive increase (fifth day), 5.
- Some languor, lassitude, and restlessness (fifth day); much increased (sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth days), 5.
SKIN
- A general eruption similar to cow-pox, from which other children were successfully vaccinated, 2.
- Small pimples developed at the point of vaccination (ordinary vaccination, after six weeks, was unsuccessful), 1.
- Red pimples or blotches on various parts, most evident when warm (after two or three days), 6.
- On the fourth day there developed on the face small bright-red pimples, which on the following day formed vesicles of a pearly look, with depressed tips, and surrounded by red areolæ; on the eighth day the child was very restless, screamed and cried, and would not be quiet, wished to be carried constantly; was sleepless, with febrile heat, rapid pulse, thirst, desire to nurse constantly without taking much; constipation, high-colored urine; the pocks were elastic, tense, hard, pearly; with inflamed redness and swelling of the rest of the face; on the tenth day the inflammation and swelling of the face disappeared, the child became quiet, and the fever diminished; on the forehead and nose the pocks became confluent, looked turbid, were filled with purulent liquid, and somewhat shrivelled; on the eleventh day the pustules burst and discharged a purulent matter, which formed yellowish-brown scabs, which afterwards became dark; these suppurated and exuded for a long time, gradually healed in about fourteen days; the whole course was like that of crusta lactea; the child was very well afterwards, but still had on the forehead and cheeks some small, very white spots without scars; subsequently repeated vaccinations at six months' intervals were ineffectual, 4.
- Small red pimples in various parts of the skin (subsequently repeated vaccination was ineffectual), 3.
- A tingling burning sensation in the skin, over the whole body, similar to the sensation of an eruption of fever blisters on the lips, nose, cheek, etc., the sensation being very and most intense in the skin of the forehead, and of the lower and anterior portion of the hairy scalp, which, on examination in a mirror, revealed the fact that those portions of the skin were "tinged with a scarlet blush, or efflorescence, precisely similar in appearance to that which I have always seen as the most immediate precursor and certain sign of an immediate variolous eruption" (ninth day), 5.