Facts decisive in favour of the cow-pock : including an account of the inoculation of the village of Lowther / by Robert John Thornton.

  • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
Date:
1802
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Credit: Facts decisive in favour of the cow-pock : including an account of the inoculation of the village of Lowther / by Robert John Thornton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    On the feventh day, 22. The eye-lids fwell, and are glued together, and the patient has borh the fenfation and apprehenfion of the lofs of fight. On the eighth day, 2J. The aqueous fluid of the puftules is changed into thick pus. 24. And the effluvia now ifluing from the pa- tient is highly noifome and infeftious. 25. Or, inftead of a yellow pus, or matter, only ichor is produced, which erodes deep, and ends in mortification of the parts. 26. Often, purple fpots appear in the fpaces fur- . rounding the eruption, which forebodes the approaching cataftrophe. 27. Often, profufe hfemorrhages of thin cor- rupt blood pafs off by the feveral outlets of the body. 28. The human face divine, bereft of every feature, then exhibits the moft diftreffing fight, being one mafs of corruption; and, at this time, fhould fleep kindly come in to appeafe his miferies, it is difturbed and ihort, and he frequently wakes wich a ftart,, as if roufed by fome dreadful apprehenfion ; but more generally the fleeplefs nights are paflTed in tearing off this mafk of humours, which from a dark brown changes to a black, and each morning prefents a horrid fcene of gore mingled with corruption.
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