Observations on contagion / by Whitley Stokes.

  • Whitley Stokes
Date:
1818
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Credit: Observations on contagion / by Whitley Stokes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    it having suffered the disease before, either after birth, in so slight a manner as not to attract atten- tion, or even in the womb, of w’hich a few instances have been observed in each of the above mentioned diseases. The exemption from Contagion is sometimes tem- porary, depending in some cases on the state of the atmosphere. Thus, in the South of Italy, dry winds seem to suspend the activity of the variolous virus ; but this temporary exemption seems oftener to de- pend upon the state of the individual. 5. Contagion seems to produce less severe effects when gradually communicated. They who have inhabited a city from the commencement of a par- ticular Epidemic, appear to suffer less severely than those who have arrived from other places. In this particular. Contagion is analogous to many poisons, ^vhich lose their effect which applied gradually.' 6. Many Contagions seem scarcely ever to affect the human constitution a second time. This circum- stance is most distinctly to be observed in the Con- tagious of Small-pox. Measles, and Hooping Cough. It is, however, of great importance to know, that this exemption from the recurrence of Small-pox, although almost universal, is by no means absolutely so. The want of attention to this circumstance pro- duced much embarrassment and unnecessary discus- sion, during a few years after the publication of Dr. Jeiiner’s Observations on Cow-pox. Plague seldom
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