This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...His relatives and friends all advised him to get this boy vaccinated, but his prejudice was so great as to cause him to hesitate in the acceptance of this advice, till, alas, the little fellow was carried away by the epidemic. This great trial was not, however, sufficient to remove from him his ignorance about the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...His relatives and friends all advised him to get this boy vaccinated, but his prejudice was so great as to cause him to hesitate in the acceptance of this advice, till, alas, the little fellow was carried away by the epidemic. This great trial was not, however, sufficient to remove from him his ignorance about the matter, even until the time of his death. Such was the firmly established predjudice against vaccination among the physicians of his class. If I remember correctly, the first man who dared to introduce vaccination into the City of Tokiyo was the prince of Sakura. He was a man of broad intellect, and impressed beyond all other princes with the superiority of European learning over our own. He sent some of his kerai to Nagasaki to study the "new medicine," and early became convinced of the necessity of introducing vaccination to prevent small-pox from carrying its devastations among so many of our countrymen. To convince his followers of the efficacy of the inoculation, he compelled one of his maids to be vaccinated; and indeed, the experiment succeeded ao well as to set at rest all anxiety concerning her during the epidemic. He then tried it on several others, his near relatives, and children of his own followers, who were compelled to he innoculated hy the " dangerous poison," as they thought it, and sometimes the "master's whip" was necessary to force them to submit to the experiment. Singularly enough, I myself was under the motherly care of the above mentioned lady for about a year, and I heard the story from her own lips. Some of the history of vaccination since that period will be found, I think, in the report of the Tokiyo University for the 10th year of Meiji.08 attending physician, being assisted by Matsumoto ...
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