CASE XII.
A gentlewoman turned of 50, of a corpulent habit and clear complexion, was inoculated about noon. On the following morning she informed me that the inoculated parts, and more especially one arm, had smarted very much, and felt benumbed up to the shoulder, and had been sufficiently troublesome to disturb her rest: upon inspecting the parts, they were found much inflamed, and a little elevated. These kinds of feelings were complained of that whole day, and towards night her head ached; but she had no increase of heat, or alteration in the pulse. On the third morning there was a flushing on the skin round the puncture on each arm, nearly the breadth of a sixpence; on applying the finger, it felt hard about the middle; and upon the whole, the appearances of infection were as evident as are usually observable on the 9th or 10th day. I therefore ventured to assure her, that the disease would pass over in a very slight manner, and most probably without any eruption; and the event justified my prognostic.
She complained a little of pain in her head for several evenings, and the inflammation on her arm increased; but on the 6th day it began to turn to a yellowish brown, and every inflammatory appearance wore off: she remained perfectly well, living with those who had the distemper, and in an infected house, without any illness.