VACCINATION EXTRAORDINARY.
A ghastly • announcement. vonsJios us* from Thessaly, where in the village ot Ivanditra (?Kardltsa), in the absence ot ' a-medical'man, the priest undertook to vaccinate all requiring the operation ;is a; prophylactic. The 'papao' (or holy father) with a zeal which was" not by any means according to knowledge did not use tho vaccine lymph of regular practice, hut the actual virus of < small-pox. Jn thlw X' way he actually injected vnriolous r>u» directly into the bodies of healthy sub! .lects (mostly peasants) to the number of forty/ nearly all of whom have since died. ' The- dismay of the medical man oll;, his x,ret.ui:n m,ay b§ imagined. Mean while the 'papao' is awaiting his trial' 2 the-local prison.-'The Lancet.' .77^ ' - ■■- »->';..-ii , V•. i ~ v , ;.. ■,--..':■■.■■•—■.-»■ «4n . ■. -. _■■.;■■ v':; '• • -;■ ■■W:. • -
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 101, 30 April 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)
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