Description of the distinct, confluent, and inoculated small pox, varioloid disease, cow pox, and chicken pox / by John D. Fisher.

  • John Dix Fisher
Date:
1829
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Credit: Description of the distinct, confluent, and inoculated small pox, varioloid disease, cow pox, and chicken pox / by John D. Fisher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    EXPLANATION OF PLATES I. II. III. IV. In the Portraits contained in these four plates, is represented the natural distinct Small Pox eruption as it appeared on the face and hand of a male child, on the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth day after it hroke out. This little boy had never been vaccinated, and after an exposure to the small pox, in consequence of being in the Hopital des Enfans Malades at Paris, where this disease existed, he became sick on the 16th of August, 1826, and after three or four days of severe fever, he began to break out with the eruption. A few hours previous to the appearance of the pimples, an efflorescence, the characters of which are well delineated on the hand, plate I., arose on the face and different parts of the body. Soon after the appearance of this efflorescence, numerous small, hard, moveable and well defined pimples were seen rising up out of it as from a red ground. These increased in number and size for about two days, when the face, body and extremities were thickly studded with them. Towards the end of the second day, and at the period when the eruption was nearly completed, a portrait of the child with a part of the eruption was painted, of which that in plate 1, is an engraved copy. A small part only of the pocks which existed on the face and hand, were painted, but particular care was taken to select such of them as would convey to the eye the best picture of the eruption, as it exhibits itself during the first two days of its existence. The pocks which are represented at a, a, &c. had but just made their appearance when the painting was made ; those which are delineated at b, b, &c. had been a number of hours developed ; while those represented at c, c, &c. were about one day old when painted, those again which are represented at d, d, &c.
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