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A history of the variolous epidemic which occurred in Norwich in the year 1819 and destroyed 530 individuals; with an estimate of the protection afforded by vaccination, and a review of past and present opinions upon chicken-pox and modified smallpox / By John Cross [i.e. John Green Crosse].

  • Cross, John, 1790-1850.
Date:
1820
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Credit: A history of the variolous epidemic which occurred in Norwich in the year 1819 and destroyed 530 individuals; with an estimate of the protection afforded by vaccination, and a review of past and present opinions upon chicken-pox and modified smallpox / By John Cross [i.e. John Green Crosse]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX, No. I. Containing a translation of Dr. Heim’s paper upon the diagnosis between Variola and Varicella. A Physician having reported that he saw small-pox three years after vaccination, which declined suddenly and scab- been varicella ; and this dispute seems to have produced the paper in waeikion: Dr. Fieim’s observations on the diagnosis between these two diseases were published in Horn’s Archiv + for 1809 ; but they have lately been diffused afresh in a post- humous work} of the celebrated Professor Richter of Goét- tingen, from which source I have made the following transla- tion. “This disease is chiefly of importance in diagnosis, being “in fact mistaken very easily for the small-pox. From a “‘ proper diagnosis between these two diseases, we have to “« determine whether an individual has already had the small- ‘pox, whether this disease may occur twice, and whether “it be possible to produce it in a person who has gone re- “gularly through the cow-pox. There is no doubt, that “when inoculation for the small-pox was much practised “ the Surgeon, in many cases, used matter taken from a sub- «« ject who had only chicken-pox, and thus produced a spurious SS cEEEeeneeeeemee + Archiv fur Medizinische Erfahrung, B. 5. H. 2. ¢ Die Specielle Therapie nach den hinterlassenen a ees ie verstorbenen A. G. Richter, B. 2. p. 342—1817, Ss sis.