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. 1906 Excerpt: ... the English Local Government Board, I was able to be present at the re-vaccination of some seventy school children from a Wiesbaden elementary school. The vaccinator was Dr. August Strieker, to whom I have been indebted for much information on the practical aspects of medical inspection. The children, on this occasion ...
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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. 1906 Excerpt: ... the English Local Government Board, I was able to be present at the re-vaccination of some seventy school children from a Wiesbaden elementary school. The vaccinator was Dr. August Strieker, to whom I have been indebted for much information on the practical aspects of medical inspection. The children, on this occasion girls only, were assembled in a room of the Municipal Buildings. They were in charge of a teacher, who directed the necessary exposure of the arms. There was also in attendance a Nursing Sister, who cleansed with ether the arms to be vaccinated. The cleansing was done immediately before the operation, and, as the ether evaporates in a few seconds, no trace of antiseptic was left to disturb the effect of the lymph. Meanwhile, the two clerks had prepared a complete list of the children. Forms of certificate were at hand and partly filled in, ready for signature. Then the doctor appeared. He took from his case a conserve of calf lymph and emptied it into a small glass saucer. He next opened a piece of aseptic gauze, which contained about one hundred small lancets. The lancet deserves a word of description. It was made by a firm of steel-pen makers at Bonn. It consisted of a flat piece of steel, two inches long, about half an inch broad at one end, tapered to an arrow-head shape at the other. The edges of the arrow-head are thinned, but not sharp. The whole is kept rigid by a depression round the margin and passing right to the tip. This lancet can be used for superficial scratching with the edge of the arrowhead or for puncture with the point. All these lancets had been sterilised. A lancet was provided for each child. Each lancet after use was thrown into an antiseptic solution, and would be afterwards cleaned for future use. The method of vacc...
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