Substance of a correspondence between the directors of the Cow Pock Institution, Sackville-Street, Dublin, and their subscribers, or other general practitioners ...
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- 1818
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Credit: Substance of a correspondence between the directors of the Cow Pock Institution, Sackville-Street, Dublin, and their subscribers, or other general practitioners ... Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![:]$ remained out four days, and on the extremities five or six days. The patient had a very happy regular recovery.— Doctor Stewart has known of some who died, and others were marked, who took Small Pox after alleged Cow Pock, but lie believes they luvd not been properly vaccinated. SIMPSON, Charles, Esq. Surgeon, Infirmary, Roscom- mon.—Has had recourse to Vaccination, since its commence- ment in Ireland, and in extensive private and hospital prac- tice. lie has not seen a case of Small Pox occurring after Cow Pock, where the Vaccine symptom. have been regular and well marked, and the appearances been examined at the pro- per distinguishing stages. He has inoculated with confluent Variolous matter, after Cow Pock ; and at the same time a child who had had neither—the former resisted, the latter took the infection. In one case, it appeared to inflame, but suddenly faded, without any characteristic Variolous change in the constitution, tie has seen many children in poor families who had previously gone through the regular Cow Pock, sleeping in the same bed with others, in bad confluent Small Pox, without injury. This season it has been very bad, rife and destructive; yet those in that neighbourhood who were vaccinated, escaped it. About six months ago, he vac- cinated a number of poor children, about five miles from Ros- common, and it being afterwards mentioned to him that some of them had taken the Small Pox, he went to see them, and found them in the commencing eruptive stage of Meades.— That an insulated case of Small Pox may occur after Cow Pock is not improbable. Mr. Simpson has seen formerly, and not unfrequently, Small Pox occur after Variolous Inocula- tion, and he believes Cow Pock to be as great a security against natural Small Pox, as Inoculation for that disease.— Where very cautious observation has not been bestowed, he has known Varicella and other eruptive complaints, mistaken for Small Pox. SAYERS, Dr. Limerick.—No case of Small Pox has super- vened to Cow Pock in his own practice. Ihree instances occurred in 1815, in that neighbourhood, all which patients were supposed to have gone regularly through the Cow Pock, but none of them had been seen, after the operation, by a physician, and the operation was, in every instance, performed without any regard to the state of the skin—none of these cases terminated fatally. Doctor Sayers has had a case of true Small Pox, in the same person a second time, and who, between the attacks, had Chicken Pock. STOPFOItD, Rev. Dr. Killybeggs—Has not heard of any of the children inoculated with the Cow Pock, in the parish](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21978463_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
