Description of the distinct, confluent, and inoculated smallpox, varioloid disease, cow pox, and chicken pox / By John D. Fisher.

  • Fisher, John D. (John Dix), 1797-1850.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Description of the distinct, confluent, and inoculated smallpox, varioloid disease, cow pox, and chicken pox / By John D. Fisher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DESCRIPTION AND REPRESENTATION OF THK DISTINCT SMALL POX. The small pox, in its natural and unmodified form, is distinguished by four well marked periods ; those of invasion, of eruption, of suppuration and of desiccation. Period of invasion.—This generally commences in the afternoon, some¬ times, but more rarely in the morning, and occupies about three days and a half, when the characteristic marks of the second stage begin to manifest themselves. It is most commonly announced at first, by an unusual degree of las¬ situde, languor and restlessness ; by frequent acts of gaping and stretch¬ ing, and by a petulant and sullen disposition, which are accompanied, or soon followed, by chilliness and shivering and the usual symptoms of a cold stage. Towards evening these symptoms are succeeded by a heat more or less vio¬ lent, by severe headach, by pain just under the scrobiculis cordis, which is greatly increased by pressure ; by a loss of appetite, by nausea and a dis¬ position to vomit and even vomiting. During the following evening and night, children, especially, manifest a great disposition to sleep, which is usually pro¬ longed, and are troubled with dreams and frequent and sudden startings from their slumbers, with now and then a horripilation or creeping chilliness pas¬ sing over the surface, which terminate in a well marked shivering or ague fit. This is soon followed by heat, flushings of the face, sensations of weight in the head, more particularly in the occipital portion of it, by pains in the