Facts decisive in favour of the cow-pock: including the history of its rise ... and the evidence given before ... the Committee of the House of Commons, with their report ... / [Robert John Thornton].

  • Robert John Thornton
Date:
1803
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Credit: Facts decisive in favour of the cow-pock: including the history of its rise ... and the evidence given before ... the Committee of the House of Commons, with their report ... / [Robert John Thornton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fufferers, ftretched out, and covered with one ‘con- tinued fore; threatened with fuffocation, uttering the agonies he feels, by piercingly heart-wounding groans.——Obferve how his mouth foams; liften to the grinding of his teeth; fee how he thrufts his little trembling tongue betwixt them, and how pite-+ oufly it 1s wotnced!—Look ! how he is agitated with the moft dreadful convulfions! his feeble limbs are’ twifted and conterted, and threaten dif- location; his frame bends backwards, is lifted up and thrown down again!—-Thefe fits now increafe,— then ceafe;—-alas! only to return with redoubled violence.—-Mifery calls aloud for help, help;—but calls in vain. —New convulfions fucceed; - he foams, —ftrugg] es, gafps,—galps again,—and expires!” © If at fcenes hke thefe your heart would bleed, what muft be the feelings of a fond parent, when this deftroying ee nips in the bud the faireft bloffom of his oF ee ‘‘ 4th, Old.a ag Although aap period cannot be alledged as equally unfavourable as. either of the foregoing, it is one a practitioner would not prefer; and it feems cruel to fubject a perfon on the verge of the grave to the chance of a diicafe that poffibly may prove extremely fevere. sth. Pregnancy was a fituation in which inocula tion generally produced abortion, and the death of the individual. - | 7 Cafes
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