The Harvard Classics Volume 38 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 554 pages of information about The Harvard Classics Volume 38.

The Harvard Classics Volume 38 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 554 pages of information about The Harvard Classics Volume 38.

10th:  The spots on the arms have disappeared, but there are three visible in the face.

11th:  Two spots on the face are gone; the other barely perceptible.

13th:  The pustule delineated in the second plate in the Treatise on the Variolae Vaccinae is a correct representation of that on the child’s arm as it appears at this time.

14th:  Two fresh spots appear on the face.  The pustule on the arm nearly converted into a scab.  As long as any fluid remained in it it was limpid.

James Hill, four years old, was inoculated on the same day, and with part of the same matter which infected Stephen Jenner.  It did not appear to have taken effect till the fifth day.

7th:  A perceptible vesicle:  this evening the patient became a little chilly; no pain or tumour discoverable in the axilla.

8th:  Perfectly well.

9th:  The same.

10th:  The vesicle more elevated than I have been accustomed to see it, and assuming more perfectly the variolous character than is common with the cow-pox at this stage.

11th:  Surrounded by an inflammatory redness, about the size of a shilling, studded over with minute vesicles.  The pustule contained a limpid fluid till the fourteenth day, after which it was incrusted over in the usual manner; but this incrustation or scab being accidentally rubbed off, it was slow in healing.

These children were afterwards fully exposed to the smallpox contagion without effect.

Having been requested by my friend, Mr. Henry Hicks, of Eastington, in this county, to inoculate two of his children, and at the same time some of his servants and the people employed in his manufactory, matter was taken from the arm of this boy for the purpose.  The numbers inoculated were eighteen.  They all took the infection, and either on the fifth or sixth day a vesicle was perceptible on the punctured part.  Some of them began to feel a little unwell on the eighth day, but the greater number on the ninth.  Their illness, as in the former cases described, was of short duration, and not sufficient to interrupt, but at very short intervals, the children from their amusements, or the servants and manufacturers from following their ordinary business.

Three of the children whose employment in the manufactory was in some degree laborious had an inflammation on their arms beyond the common boundary about the eleventh or twelfth day, when the feverish symptoms, which before were nearly gone off, again returned, accompanied with increase of axillary tumour.  In these cases (clearly perceiving that the symptoms were governed by the state of the arms) I applied on the inoculated pustules, and renewed the application three or four times within an hour, a pledget of lint, previously soaked in aqua lythargyri acetati [Footnote:  Goulard’s extract of Saturn.] and covered the hot efflorescence surrounding them with cloths dipped in cold water.

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