From the Richmond Dispatch, 1/23/1863, p. 1, c. 6

A Warning to the Vaccinated. – An inmate of the Prison Hospital, who had been vaccinated for small-pox, was seized yesterday with gangrene in the arm that was operated on and the limb will have to be taken off by the Surgeon. He had caught cold in the arm after the operation was performed.

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