A history of the variolous epidemic which occurred in Norwich in the year 1819 and destroyed 530 individuals; with an estimate of the protection afforded by vaccination, and a review of past and present opinions upon chicken-pox and modified smallpox / by John Cross.

  • John Green Crosse
Date:
1820
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A history of the variolous epidemic which occurred in Norwich in the year 1819 and destroyed 530 individuals; with an estimate of the protection afforded by vaccination, and a review of past and present opinions upon chicken-pox and modified smallpox / by John Cross. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

    89/320 page 69
    shape, containing half a pint of dark-green ropy fluid, and its inner surface was beset with petechia] spots quite as numerously as the ex- ternal skin ; yet there were no petechise in the lining membrane of the oesophagus, nor of the lanre and small intestines. It is probable that the internal eruption is not always found in petechial fever, any more than in small-pox. It often happens, that in the worst cases of the latter disease, no traces of the eruption are found, on dissec- tion, upon any of the internal mucous surfaces. Mr. Hull, however, dissected in June a child, a year and half old, which died on the sixth day of the variolous eruption, and found the rectum, colon and ileum, marked with circular patches, distinct, white, and having an appear- ance of indentation in the centre. They were Dissection after death and from smaiu pox. were situated beneath the mucous coat, resem- bling in figure and diameter of surface the cutaneous eruption, of which they seemed, as Mr. Hull himself well expresses it, to be faint imitations. White patches were also observable in the jejunum, but neither circular nor indent- ed. The cesophagus, stomach and duodenum presented none of these appearances. The situation of the petechial and variolous eruptions may hence be contrasted both as to here and there congregated into clusters, i
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3