C A S E S.
CASE I.
Nov.
23d.
A very strong, fat, middle-aged man was inoculated with fluid matter, from a person pretty full of the natural small-pox, and near the crisis.
26th. He came to me, that I might inspect the arm, which then appeared to be certainly infected, and very forward.
28th. He came to the house, and informed me he had been taken very ill on the 26th in the evening, and continued so all the next day. His complaints had been, great pains in his head and back, with heat, thirst, and restlessness. He was at this time, however, pretty well; but on inspecting the arms, they appeared much inflamed for a considerable space round the incision, and the erysipelatous appearance gradually extended itself over the greatest part of the arms between the elbow and shoulder. He now complained only of slight flying pains in his head and limbs, but without the least degree of fever: after a bad night’s rest several eruptions were discovered on the hips, and one on the neck. Some of these maturated, others dried away; and, upon the whole, the procedure was such as would not by any have been called variolous, if unattended with other circumstances.
CASE II.
Nov. 23d.] A healthy strong man, inoculated at the same time, and from the same person, with the last, accompanied him also on the 26th, when the arm of this patient appeared in a very doubtful state respecting the infection.
On the 28th, when he came to the house, the skin at the incision was discoloured, felt hard, seemed thickened, did not appear inflamed; nor did he allow it had itched, or that he had perceived any alteration in his health.