. Contagious and infectious disease: measures for their prevention and arrest; small pox (variola); modified small pox (varioloid); chicken pox (varicella); cow pox (variolæ vaccinaæ); vaccination, spurious vaccination . considerably. On the fourth day the inflammation was evidently subsiding, andon the sixth it was scarcely perceptible. No symptom of indisposition followed. To convince myself that the variolous matter made use of was in a perfect state, Iat the same time inoculated a patient with some of it who had never gone through thecow-pox, and it produced the small-pox in the usual regu
. Contagious and infectious disease: measures for their prevention and arrest; small pox (variola); modified small pox (varioloid); chicken pox (varicella); cow pox (variolæ vaccinaæ); vaccination, spurious vaccination . considerably. On the fourth day the inflammation was evidently subsiding, andon the sixth it was scarcely perceptible. No symptom of indisposition followed. To convince myself that the variolous matter made use of was in a perfect state, Iat the same time inoculated a patient with some of it who had never gone through thecow-pox, and it produced the small-pox in the usual regular manner. These experiments afforded nie much satisfaction ; they proved that the matter, inpassing from one human subject to another, through five gradations, lost none of its *This was not done intentionally, but from the accidental touch of the lancet, one puncture being alwayssufficient. tPerhapa a few touches with the lapis septicus would have proved equally efficacious. IWhat effect would a similar treatment produce in inoculation for the small-pox 1 ||The subsequent part of this treatise will sufficiently show the proper practice in cases of inflammationof the inoculated arm. VARIOL^E VACCINAE. PLATE Fig. 77/ Arm of JohnBaker; VaccinatedMarch 16, 1798. Plate %Case XVIII. Inquiry,Edward Jenner. Fig. 78/ Arm of William %Pead. CaseXX. Plate*.Inquiry, Edward Jenner
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