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28 Document No. 19. [Session
He told me he had been to Lynchburg, Va., for two or three
weeks, but there was no small-pox there. I told him to go
immediately home and not leave the house. He had a genu-ine
case of discrete small-pox ; father, mother, seven or eight
brothers and sisters had it. Other cases, mild in type, were
developed. There was no case that could have been mistaken
for anything else than small-pox. He had secondary fever.
We had Dr. Henry Long from Statesville, the small-pox
expert. Dr. Anderson is, in my opinion, mistaken. I vacci-nated
the First North Carolina Regiment three times. I
have seen the worst sort of arms, sores nearly to the bone,
and yet the vaccination had not taken.
Dk. Macon : I would like to know if this disease which is
spreading in North Carolina is not small-pox, what is it ? It
is a disagreeable disease, and if it is not small-pox I think the
people of the community should be quarantined anyhow.
They may be used to scratching in the eastern part of North
Carolina from the mosquitoes, but we people in our high,
healthy mountains do not love to be scratching so much.
What is the opinion of the expert wrorth if it is not to be
regarded ? If he proclaims small-pox, what are you going to
do about it? If there is no law behind him backing him,
take him out of the field and save the expense, and if there is
a law let him enforce it.
It is the business man that objects to small-pox ; he pats
the doctor on the shoulder and says y„ou will ruin our town.
Take a stand promptly against these business people and they
will be the first to come over and help you out. All discrete
forms of small-pox do not have secondary fever. This dis-ease
should be exterminated from North Carolina, and it can
be done.
Dk. Anderson : I want to say I had fourteen to sixteen
placards of "Small-pox" nailed up all over the town for three
months. I wTrote the Secretary I did not think it was small-pox,
but was doing it because the expert said so.
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| Full Text | 28 Document No. 19. [Session He told me he had been to Lynchburg, Va., for two or three weeks, but there was no small-pox there. I told him to go immediately home and not leave the house. He had a genu-ine case of discrete small-pox ; father, mother, seven or eight brothers and sisters had it. Other cases, mild in type, were developed. There was no case that could have been mistaken for anything else than small-pox. He had secondary fever. We had Dr. Henry Long from Statesville, the small-pox expert. Dr. Anderson is, in my opinion, mistaken. I vacci-nated the First North Carolina Regiment three times. I have seen the worst sort of arms, sores nearly to the bone, and yet the vaccination had not taken. Dk. Macon : I would like to know if this disease which is spreading in North Carolina is not small-pox, what is it ? It is a disagreeable disease, and if it is not small-pox I think the people of the community should be quarantined anyhow. They may be used to scratching in the eastern part of North Carolina from the mosquitoes, but we people in our high, healthy mountains do not love to be scratching so much. What is the opinion of the expert wrorth if it is not to be regarded ? If he proclaims small-pox, what are you going to do about it? If there is no law behind him backing him, take him out of the field and save the expense, and if there is a law let him enforce it. It is the business man that objects to small-pox ; he pats the doctor on the shoulder and says y„ou will ruin our town. Take a stand promptly against these business people and they will be the first to come over and help you out. All discrete forms of small-pox do not have secondary fever. This dis-ease should be exterminated from North Carolina, and it can be done. Dk. Anderson : I want to say I had fourteen to sixteen placards of "Small-pox" nailed up all over the town for three months. I wTrote the Secretary I did not think it was small-pox, but was doing it because the expert said so. |
