An account of the varioloid epidemic, which has lately prevailed in Edinburgh and other parts of Scotland : with observations on the identity of chicken-pox with modified small-pox : in a letter to Sir James M'Grigor / by John Thomson.

  • Thomson, John, 1765-1846.
Date:
1824
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Credit: An account of the varioloid epidemic, which has lately prevailed in Edinburgh and other parts of Scotland : with observations on the identity of chicken-pox with modified small-pox : in a letter to Sir James M'Grigor / by John Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    description lias been taken, have been visited daily throughout the whole of their course, in situations often the least inviting that can be conceived. The nature and extent of this labour will be best esti- mated by those who have themselves been em- ployed in visiting the habitations of the sick poor. In all of the three different classes of persons whom it has attacked, the varioloid disease has appeared to me to exhibit certain general and com- mon symptoms, while in each class it has appeared to possess more or less of a particular character. The principal varieties which have been observ- able in this epidemic, may be referred, T conceive, 1st, To differences in the degree and duration of the eruptive fever ; 2dly, To differences in the number, form, contents, maturation, and decline of the pustules; and, Sdly, To differences in the oc- currence, degree, and kind of the secondary fever superveuing in the severer cases of the disease. Of the Varioloid Disease, in those who had neither passed through Small-pox nor Cow-pock. In this class the eruptive fever has in general been severe, though in some cases mild and of short duration. It has usually continued three days before the appearance of the eruption. The pe- riod of its duration, however, has not unfrequently varied from one to four days, and while it has been in some so slight as scarcely to have beeu