Bibliothek des Niederrheinischen Vereins für öffentliche Gesundheitspflege / On vaccination

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On vaccination : its value and alleged dangers ; a prize essay / by Edward Ballard. London : Longmans, Green, 1868

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PDF 37ACTUAL VALUE OF VACCINATION.

PDF 38THE PRACTICE OF VACCINATION IS WORTHY OF CONFIDENCE AS A PROTECTION AGAINST ATTACKS OF SMALLPOX.
PDF 57Statistical Argument in favour of Popular Vaccination.
PDF 75Is there any reason to believe that the practice of vaccination, while lessening the ravages of smallpox, has had the effect of promoting the occurrence of other fatal maladies?
PDF 94THE PROTECTION AFFORDED AGAINST SMALLPOX BY VACCINATION IS NEITHER UNCONDITIONAL NOR CONSTANTLY UNLIMITED; BUT MANY OF THE CONDITIONS UPON WHICH IT DEPENDS ARE UNDER THE CONTROL OF MANKIND.
PDF 113Upon what does the perfection of protective power in the vaccine disease depend?
PDF 134How soon after the performance of Vaccination may the subject of it be considered protected against Smallpox?
PDF 153Is the protection against smallpox afforded by vaccination limited in duration?
PDF 179To what causes, inherent or otherwise, can the occasional return of receptivity for the contagion of smallpox, and the frequent return of the capacity for developing the virus in the system, be referred? How far is it in our power to obviate them, to control their operation, or to counteract their results?
PDF 205Is there any satisfactory evidence that vaccine virus, in its transmission through successive human generations, loses any of its activity or becomes less effectual, when developed in the system, as a protection against smallpox?
PDF 240Are there any means which can be adopted for ensuring the most complete protection that the vaccine disease is capable of imparting, or of remedying the defective protection arising in after-life, either from natural causes or in consequence of the imperfection of the primary vaccination?

PDF 267PART II. ''THE DANGERS OF VACCINATION FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF OTHER DISEASES INTO THE ORGANISM, AND THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE VALUE OF VACCINATION IS REDUCED BY SUCH DANGERS.''