Volume 3
Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, & medical science / by John Coakley Lettsom.
- John Coakley Lettsom
- Date:
- 1801
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, & medical science / by John Coakley Lettsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![fmall reddifh eminence is vifible; this creafesin fize, becomes hard, and by the fixth day acquires a bluilh, or light crimfon circle about half an inch in diameter, with a difeo- loured fpeck, puftule, or rather veficle, in the centre, fomewhat lefs than a pea ; this circle, or areola, progrefsively increafes till the eleventh or twelfth day; after which it gra- dually vaniflies. About the eighth day, a flight fenfation of pain in the inoculated part, and arm-pit, takes place, with a little Ihiverlng, head-ach, and feverllhnefs. Thefe ufually fubfide fponta- neoufly in a day or two, little or no confine- ment or reflraint being requifite; and indeed, in general, very little indifpofition whatever is obfervable. The pains, however, in the inocu- lated part is fometlmes troublefome, with con- fiderable inflammation, whilft the puftular or veficular part is furrounded with a broad circular margin; which, with the preceding fymptoms, indicate, that the fyftem is affedled by the vaccine matter.' Soon after this period, that is, about the ]l2th or 13th day, the fluid 5](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28522084_0003_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
