Vaccination, its natural history and pathology.

  • Copeman, S. Monckton (Sydney Monckton), 1862-
Date:
1899
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Credit: Vaccination, its natural history and pathology. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    hardly any one escapes it, or who has disposed the modes of treatment in their right places. Now the smallpox arises when the blood putrefies and ferments, so that the superfluous vapours are thrown out of it, and it is changed from the blood of infants, which is like must, into the blood of young men, which is like wine perfectly ripened; and the smallpox itself may be compared to the fermentation and the hissing noise which takes place in must at that time. And this is the reason why children, especially males, rarely escape being seized with this disease. The smallpox arises from a fermentation that takes place in the blood, when it is undergoing the change from that of an infant to that of a young man ; and it is accompanied by great heat and a disagreeable odour ; and this is when the patient is of a hot tempera- ment. The disease sometimes happens twice or even three times to the same individual, but generally once, especially to males, for the blood of infants must necessarily undergo this change. I am now to mention the seasons of the year in which the smallpox is most prevalent: which are, the latter end of the autumn and the beginning of the spring; and when in the summer there are great and frequent rains with continued south winds, and when the winter is warm and the winds southerly.