Report of the National Vaccine Establishment [on the occurrence of smallpox after vaccination in the families of Lord Grosvenor and Sir Henry Martin, with other cases].
- National Vaccine Establishment (Great Britain)
- Date:
- [1811]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the National Vaccine Establishment [on the occurrence of smallpox after vaccination in the families of Lord Grosvenor and Sir Henry Martin, with other cases]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![II. The Case of the Son of Sir Henry Martin. Sir Henry Martin’s son, aged eleven years, was Vaccinated by Mr. Tcgart, in the year 1801, and exhibited all the usual marks of that disorder in a complete and satisfactory manner. He still retains on his arm the characteristic scar. ‘ This boy was taken ill on Saturday the 22d da}' of June, 1811; at the period of the attack he was recovering from Hooping Cough. 23d, Continued to be feverish. 24th, Mr. Tegart was sent to. 25th, The fever increased, and at night he became delirious, 26th, An eruption was perceived chiefly about the mouth, at the same time his eyes and throat were slightly inflamed. The fever continued. 27th, or 2d day of the eruption, the pustules increased, so as to aflbid suspicion of the Chicken Pox. Sd day of the eruption, the pustules increased, the fever decreased. 4th. At the close of the fourth day, Dr. Heberden first saw this boy, with a distinct eruption of the most perfect kind of Small Pox, all pretty uniform in size, well filled with a fluid already beginning to grow yellow and surrounded by a rose-coloured mar¬ gin precisely like Small Pox of the fifth day. There were about one hundred pustules on the face, and perha]>s t\Yice a.s many on the limbs, but the trunk](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30366616_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
