A treatise on the cow-pox; containing an enumeration of the principal facts in the history of that disease, the method of communicating the infection by inoculation; and the means of distinguishing between the genuine and spurious cow-pox ... / by George Bell.

  • Bell, George.
Date:
1802
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the cow-pox; containing an enumeration of the principal facts in the history of that disease, the method of communicating the infection by inoculation; and the means of distinguishing between the genuine and spurious cow-pox ... / by George Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    «J ference of this circular inflammation or areola, the fkin is hard and irritable, fo that the leaft degree of preflure excites pain; and the glands in the arm-pits in fome inftances are ftiff, {welled, and pain- ful, but feldom in any confiderable de- ' gree*, ‘The patient becomes fick and reftlefs ; has fudden changes from heat to _ cold; his pulfe is quick ; he complains of thirft, and is apt to ftart on falling afleep. But although thefe fymptoms appear occafionally in a flight degree, they are commonly not fo fevere as to require any * Sometimes the pain and fwelling in the axilla appear on the fixth day from the inocula- tion. See JenneR’s Inquiry, &c. p. 38.