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1836 Boston Medical and Surgical Journal  
the child recovered its health in a few months. The second, a child of two years of age, naturally delicate, then convalescent from a bowel complaint, pale, extremely feeble, and oppressed in breathing. After having been vaccinated, it immediately recovered its strength and size, and a free and easy respiration. Dr. Sacco* mentions that in vaccinating children afflicted with paralysis or a partial weakness in the arms or lower extremities, with chronic affections of the glands, or with other
more » ... ds of cachexia, he has purposely made a great number of punctures, to the amount of thirty or forty, and that some rapidly convalesced, and others have experienced a sensible amelioration from it.
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