Facts, for the most part unobserved, or not duly noticed, respecting variolous contagion / [Edward Jenner].

  • Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823
Date:
[1808]
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Credit: Facts, for the most part unobserved, or not duly noticed, respecting variolous contagion / [Edward Jenner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    him still better, but complaining of a rash, which the family then in- formed me, they had perceived very early the morning before, but which they forgot to mention to me, and which had escaped my notice, his chamber being a very dark one. “ On examining this eruption, which was now not limited to his face alone, but extended to his arms, breast, and body, its appearance so much resembled the small-pox, that I told the family I should not have hesitated in pronouncing it to be so, if his having had that dis- temper had not been so notorious. The next day the eruption was universal; his throat also, which he had complained of the day be- fore, was now become more troublesome, and indeed every other ap- pearance so much favoured the idea of the disease being variolous, as to induce me to give the most decided opinion of its being so, and to desire that there might be no communication or intercourse with any of his friends, who had not had that disease. This opinion was ridi- culed, and consequently but little attention paid to the precaution. In the progress of this case, the advancement of the pustules, the swelling of the face and head, and that smell peculiar to the disease, as well as every other circumstance, still more and more confirmed me in the opinion I had given. “ Reflecting on the singularity of the case, I desired on the eighth day from the invasion, that a physician might visit him ; accordingly Dr. Collet, then a resident in this place, was desired to see him : con- sidering how necessary it was that the nature of this case should be investigated in the fullest manner, I requested Dr. Hulbert, a physi- cian