Cases of small pox, subsequent to vaccination : with facts and observations, read before the Medical Society, at Portsmouth, March 29th, 1804. Addressed to the director of the Vaccine Institution.

Goldson, William

Date:: 1804

Credit: Cases of small pox, subsequent to vaccination : with facts and observations, read before the Medical Society, at Portsmouth, March 29th, 1804. Addressed to the director of the Vaccine Institution. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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$It was always Mr. Grant's intention, that both fhould be fubmitted to the influence of variolous infeftion at the fame time. They were accordingly inoculated, on Monday the 19th of December, eighteen hundred and three. Wednesday 21ft. Their arms were inflamed nearly the fame. Thursday 22c]. There was an appearance of fuppuration in both. But the inflammati- on was greater in that of the eldeft, than in the arm of the other. Friday 23d. I found the arm of the eldeft had been rubbed in the night, and had dif- charged fome lymph on the linen. But the inflammation was confiderably more than yeflerday, and the fuppuration was extended to the fize of a fmall vefch. The inflammati- on on the arm of the other was lefs percepti- ble, and from this time it gradually fubfided. In three or four days there was only the ap- pearance of a dry lcab remaining. The child at no time fuffeied any inconvenience \ whatever.$