A comprehensive view of the small pox, cow pox, and chicken pox : with a concise history of their different stages and terminations, proving that the real small pox never have occurred more than once in the same person, nor ever after the cow pox / By James Sanders, M.D.

  • Sanders, James, 1777-1843
Date:
1813
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Credit: A comprehensive view of the small pox, cow pox, and chicken pox : with a concise history of their different stages and terminations, proving that the real small pox never have occurred more than once in the same person, nor ever after the cow pox / By James Sanders, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Burserius was certainly correct in considering such assertions as premature; for no man, after reflection, could call those cases benign, which were attended with the most violent symptoms ;_ and he who believed the spurious Small Pox to be not only mild, but short, could not consistent- ly call those affections spurious, which were both severe and long; and that De Haén formed this notion from some similarity in the eruptions, ap- pears from his own words, “ That he saw them terminate without inconvenience and danger ; but the crystalline or watery eruptions occurring both in the legitimate and the spurious Small Pox, might have undeceived him. And if Burserius had attended to the fact, which he often mentions, that fever, particularly in the fourth stage, was characteristic at least of the legitimate confluent species, he might have hesitated to place, among the legitimate Smal] Pox, that species of the intermediate, which is changed into an eruption of a completely benign de- scription, and from which recovery may ensue with- out secondary fever.
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