An account of the eruptive diseases which have lately appeared in the military hospitals of Edinburgh, both naturally and after inoculation : as they have affected children and adults, some of whom had previously had small-pox, some who had been previously subjected to the cow-pox, and others who never had either of these diseases / by John Hennen.

  • Hennen, John, 1779-1828.
Date:
1818
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Credit: An account of the eruptive diseases which have lately appeared in the military hospitals of Edinburgh, both naturally and after inoculation : as they have affected children and adults, some of whom had previously had small-pox, some who had been previously subjected to the cow-pox, and others who never had either of these diseases / by John Hennen. 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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    ]gth. Most of the horny scabs came off in the bath last night, leaving fleshy looking tubercles on the skin ; the other pustules have discharged their contents, leaving the thin cuticle as a loose bag be- hind them. Adeat bain, calid. Omitt. anodyn. 20th.—Bowels are costive, and he passed rather a sleepless night, but in other respects he has no complaint. No alteration since yes- terday in the appearance of theeruption. Sutnat olei ricini §j. Repet. anoilyn. h. s. From this period this man gradually recovered, and he now, August 10th, exhibits numerous pits of the recent disease, which are very easily distinguishable from those left by his original variolous at- tack. Case V.—Had I entertained the most remote idea of the interest which the following case would have excited, it should have been kept with the most scrupulous minuteness. But neither Dr Thom- son, who is in the constant habit of seeing my family, nor myself, considered it as any thing else than a severe case of chicken ppx, and some other medical gentlemen who saw the boy, were of the same opinion. I can undertake, however, to assert with perfect confidence, that the general outline, and the more minute particu- lars as far as they go, are perfectly correct; for although the facts were not noted day by day at the bedside, they have been taken while the impressiohs were yet recent in the recollection of a fond mother, accustomed to the diseases of children, assist- ed by the memoranda made by myself, and compared with the observations of others. 1 he original account was at Dr Mon- ro’s request, transmitted to him, on the 18th of June, only nine days after the first attack of the disease, and I shall transcribe the very words in which it was conveyed to him. My Dear Sir,—l am sorry that I was from home, on pub- lic duty, on Sunday last, when you and Mr Bryce called at my house. I only returned from Northumberland last night, aud 1 lose no time in giving you the particulars of my son’s case. On Tuesday the 9th instant, he returned from school about four o clock in the afternoon, complaining of an intense headach and pain in his right side, liis pulse was nearly 1()0, hard and bounding - is skin hot, dry, and rough to the touch, and somewhat inclined °to redness; his eyes suffused, and his cheeks very much flushed • his tongue was moist, and rather redder than usual, particularly in the cemre; the pain of his right side was considerably increased bv pres- re, but I was not sensible of any enlargement of the liver, and at sch „.I M?Ut hf,skcomljlai,,t to a blow on that part by some of hi# Were m» l0WSr0* h,S °WaRC’ (ilbout eleven,) particularly as there were marks of tears on his cheeks. I found on examination, how.