The practice of medicine on Thomsonian principles : and a materia medica, adapted to the work / by J. W. Comfort, M.D.

  • Comfort, J. W. (John W.)
Date:
1845
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    swollen and sore, and care should be taken, to avoid lifting the child with the hands under the arms, as is the usual practice. Characteristics of Spurious or Imperfect Vaccination.—First: There is generally considerable inflammation and raising of the skin, on the second day after the puncture is made. Second: The scabbing commences by the third or fifth day from the commencement of the inflammation, and runs its course in a much shorter time than the genuine. Third: There is no depression in the centre of the pustule : it is raised up high, and has an irregular margin. When the inflammation commences on the formation of the vesicle, and assumes an erysipelatous character early, with much swelling, and the pustule assumes a blue appearance, it should not be considered as genuine. Local Treatment.—When the inflammation becomes so great as to require attention, as it often does when the disease is of a spurious character, the parts should be bathed occasionally with tincture of lobelia, and apply a salve of simple cerate, or a pre- paration of sweet oil and lime-water. In some instances, a poul- tice of slippery elm and ginger, kept wet with the tincture of lobelia, answers better than salves. In severe cases, accompanied with much pain, the bowels should be relieved by injections, and the patient kept slightly nauseated with lobelia, or if necessary a vapour bath and an emetic given. When the swelling is very great, the arm should be kept at perfect rest, in a sling, or on a pillow. SECTION III. VARIOLOID—MODIFIED SMALL-POX. This is an eruptive disease, which bears some resemblance to small-pox. It is in general, however, of a much milder character, and runs its course in about half the time required for small-pox. It is the prevailing opinion among medical men, that varioloid, is genuine small-pox, operating upon a system which has pre- viously undergone vaccination. Symptoms.-.'The first symptoms, are lassitude, langour, loss of appetite, chilliness, and bad taste in the mouth. These are suc- ceeded by a chill, in most cases, followed by fever. The fever