Reports on a series of innoculations for the variolæ vaccinæ, or cow-pox : with remarks and observations on this disease, considered as a substitute for the small-pox / By William Woodville.

  • Woodville, William, 1752-1805.
Date:
1799
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Credit: Reports on a series of innoculations for the variolæ vaccinæ, or cow-pox : with remarks and observations on this disease, considered as a substitute for the small-pox / By William Woodville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wliat were called inward convulfions, and had vomited two or three times. On examination,- the heat of her flcin, and the frequency of her pulfe, indicated the prefence of fome degree of fever. 8th day. I learned that the febrile ftate had continued, more or lefs, till this morning; nor was it then wholly gone off. The inoculated part, I judged from its appear- ance, had not entirely ceafed from diforder^ ing the conftitution. i ith day. The rednefs of the tumour is fubfiding, and its general appearance refembles the effects of inocula- tion with variolous matter when the eruption is completed, and the maturation proceeding favourably. The patient’s mother now thinks her as well as ufual. She was this day inocu- lated with variolous matter. 13th day. She ma- nifefts no f gns of indifpofition. The rednefs about the tumour is gone off,,and the mat- ter is forming a fcab. The fecond inoculation c 2 produces