Practical observations on the small pox, apoplexy, and dropsy. In a series of letters to ... Albert Haller / [S.A.D. Tissot].

  • Samuel-Auguste Tissot
Date:
1772
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Credit: Practical observations on the small pox, apoplexy, and dropsy. In a series of letters to ... Albert Haller / [S.A.D. Tissot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    then, firft, to explain briefly my opinion of the Small Pox. It has been long univerfally agreed that the Small Pox is not a difeafe that arifes from various errors in diet, nor have a few obfer- vations to the contrary the lead: weight with any one. This diftemper then proceeds from a virusfuigeneris, with which the air is often infected, and being received into the human fluids, imperceptibly contaminates them. Health is impaired for fome days, until na¬ ture, irritated by the acrimonious ftimulus, excites a fever, generally an inflammatory one, but that varies according to the different conftitution and regimen of the patient, and ftate of the atmofphere ; and is at length apr peafed when the virus,t received into and ge¬ nerated in the conftitution, is thrown on the flein, defiling it with phlegmonous puftules, at firft very fmall, but which by degrees grow as. large as peas, and at length fuppu- rate. If the whole of the virus is depofited on the fkin, and the puftules are not very numerous after the eruption is completed, the diftemper is terminated; the puftules pafiing through their different ftages without;, occafioning any difturbance, at length dry A 4 away. *