Miscellaneous works. Of the late Robert Willan. Comprising, An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition. And detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications / Edited by Ashby Smith.

  • Robert Willan
Date:
1821
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Credit: Miscellaneous works. Of the late Robert Willan. Comprising, An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition. And detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications / Edited by Ashby Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t 1800.] DISEASES IN LONDON. 405 they lodge, or visit, affected with the Small¬ pox, endeavour to anticipate the disorder by means of inoculation, at the asylum opened to them by public benevolence. But the ap¬ plication is probably too late: some of them have already received the infection, and, be¬ fore the Vaccine pock can reach the end of its second stage, an eruption of Variolous pustules takes place in the usual manner. In attending at the Hospital last summer, while Dr. Woodville was on his mission to Paris, I observed four instances of persons so circum¬ stanced, in whom the eruptions appeared, on different days, between the third and the eighth from inoculation. The pustules were distinct, but large, and full of matter. After their appearance, I thought the tumor, and Erythema, round the Vaccine pock, in one or two patients, did not become quite so con¬ siderable, or extensive, as in unmixed cases of Vaccine inoculation. When the Small-pox and Vaccine disease had been inoculated about the same time, the eruptions were, in all the cases I saw at the Hospital, of the species vulgarly termed Horn-pock, being hard, and semitransparent. They contained little fluid, and, though of long duration, did not maturate, or break by suppuration. Whe¬ ther we should, from these premises, infer