Skin diseases and their remedies / by Robert J. Jordan.

  • Jordan, Henry J.
Date:
1860
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    every reason to regard small-pox and cliicken- pox as perfectly distinct diseases. Inoculated small-pox is also, as a rule, mucli milder than small-pox contracted in the ordinary way by contagion. As a proof of this, Dr. Gregory relates a striking instance, in which small-pox broke out at sea in a man-of- war. The crew was, almost to a man, unpro- tected by vaccination, or by a previous attack of small-pox, and no vaccine matter was to be had. Sixteen of the men took the disease in the ordinary way, and nine died. The surgeon then wisely inoculated the remainder—363 in number, and of these not one died. The same thing is also told statistically : thus, the morta- lity of natural small-pox, according to Mr. Marson of the London Small-pox Hospital, is 33 per cent.; the mortality of inoculated small- pox, according to Dr. Gregory, is -33 per cent. All honour then to Lady Mary Wortley Mon- tague ; for it was no small service which she did, when she introduced into the West the Eastern practice of disarming small-pox of some of its terrors hv inoculation ! In the papular stage, variola may be mistaken for measles and febrile lichen ; in the vesicular