A treatise on the cow-pox; containing ... the principal facts in the history of that disease, etc / [George Bell].

  • Bell, George
Date:
1815
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Credit: A treatise on the cow-pox; containing ... the principal facts in the history of that disease, etc / [George Bell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    seen by any of the gentlemen belonging to that establish- ment after that period. The scar of the Cow-pox pus- tule was seen on the arm. This child was taken ill on 9th of May, 1807; on the 11th an eruption took place on her skin, and I saw her on the 12th. The eruption was numerous, and the skin of a red colour in the interstices. 13th, Eruption con- sists of numerous distinctly-marked pustules, but the skin is less red—her eyes are watery, and a good deal in- flamed—the fever is not considerable. 14th, Pustules advancing, and in some places are confluent—eyes much affected. i5th, Pustules advancing; face and extremi- ties somewhat swelled. 16tli, Carried Mr James Russel], Professor of Clinical Surgery, to see her, who declared the disease to be unequivocally Small-pox, and not far- ther advanced than common at this period of the dis- ease. 17th, Face so much swelled as to shut the eyes —matter is contained in the pustules. 18th, Swelling of the face greatly abated—eyes open—the pustules on the face are beginning to scab—those on the rest of the body contain matter, but have little or no inflammation around their bases—the child takes food. 19th, The pustules are scabbing over the whole body, and the child is quite at her ease, taking food as usual. The respectable authority from which this case of Small-pox after vaccination is reported, would not allow me to entertain any doubt of the failure of vaccination in this particular instance, were it not that there is still some ground for suspecting, that the child might not have had the genuine Cow-pox. Mr Bryce, with whom