The fact that in the one case there is generation of a variolous poison capable of producing a contagious disease in adults, and in the other a malady which is known to affect children only, renders the decision important.
The expression of an intense variolous poison is known as hemorrhagic variola; also as purpura variolosa and black pox.
We may, nevertheless, always determine, provided we succeed at all, whether we are dealing with a disease that protects against vaccinal and variolous inoculation.
The diphtheritic inflammations of wounds and of variolouseruptions are instances in point.
Colin (1876) has denied the conclusiveness of the experiments of Chauveau, which have been held to prove the particulate nature of variolous and vaccine virus.
In general terms, it may be said that it is scarcely less protective than variolous infection itself, for death from a second attack of small-pox is by no means rare.
This diversity is due to several causes, irrespective of the remarkable modifications displayed in the variolous who have been previously vaccinated.
It is thus evident that there is no strict line of demarcation between the very mildest physical expression of the variolous poison and that variola vera which presents atypically benign symptoms in any stage of its career.
To pronounce that case to be variolous which is not of such a nature is to subject one to the indignation of the few and the ridicule of the many.
On the 1st of the following July the boy was carefully inoculated with variolous matter, but (as Jenner had predicted) no small-pox followed.
Jenner concluded at once that this was due to an accidental contamination of the vaccine with variolous matter, and a visit to London in the spring of 1799 convinced him that this was the case.
After waiting two months Jenner inoculated him with variolous material.
Variolous oesophagitis may excite an accompanying catarrhal or pseudo-membranous oesophagitis.
It is contended that the so-called pustules of variolous oesophagitis are really superficial variolous ulcers, the antecedent specific lesions having been lenticular papules merely, with abrasion of the softened epithelial layer.
They rubbed the place selected for operation until the skin was red, then scratched with a sharp instrument, and laid upon it cotton soaked in the variolous pus, moistened with water from the sacred Ganges.
Among the Chinese was practiced what was known as "pock-sowing," and ten centuries before Christ the Celestials introduced into the nasal cavities of young children pledgets of cotton saturated with variolous pus.
After all, are the variolous particles, possessing their true specific and contagious principles, ever taken up and conveyed by the lymphatics unchanged into the blood vessels?
The same appearances were observable on the arms as we commonly see when a patient has had variolous matter applied, after having either the Cow-pox or the Small-pox.
There are many, who from some peculiarity in the habit resist the common effects of variolous matter inserted into the skin, and who are in consequence haunted through life with the distressing idea of being insecure from subsequent infection.
It was the practice of another, whom I well remember, to pinch up a small portion of the skin on the arms of his patients and to pass through it a needle, with a thread attached to it previously dipped in variolous matter.
In some of the preceding cases I have noticed the attention that was paid to the state of the variolous matter previous to the experiment of inserting it into the arms of those who had gone through the Cow-pox.
The appearance of the incisions in their progress to a state of maturation were much the same as when produced in a similar manner by variolous matter.
Variolous matter was inserted into both his arms; in the right by means of superficial incisions, and into the left by slight punctures into the cutis.
In some other points of view, the inoculation of this disease appears preferable to the variolous inoculation.
Footnote 1: It is remarkable that variolous matter, when the system is disposed to reject it, should excite inflammation on the part to which it is applied more speedily than when it produces the Small Pox.
On Acute Contagions, particularly the Variolous and Vaccine.
The bromide and the iodide acne never occur on the palms and soles, where there are no sebaceous glands, and the lesions lack the evolution and course of the variolous eruption.
Mary Barge, of Woodford, in this parish, was inoculated with variolous matter in the year 1791.
On being afterwards casually exposed to variolous infection, she had the smallpox in a mild way.
Secondly, Mr. James Cole, a farmer in this parish, had a disease from the same source as related in the preceding case, and some years after was inoculated with variolous matter.
In the common course of inoculation previous to the general one scarcely a year passed without my meeting with one or two instances of persons who had gone through the cow-pox, resisting the action of the variolous contagion.
Although at first it took on so much of the variolous character as to produce pustules in three cases out of five, yet in Dr.
I afterwards inoculated these patients with variolous matter, but all of them resisted its action.
These swellings seem to be owing to the absorption of variolous matter, which by its stimulus excites the cutaneous vessels to secrete more lymph, or serum, or mucus, exactly as happens by the stimulus of a blister.
Hence a new kind of gland is formed at the terminations of the vessels in the eruptions of the small-pox; the animal motions of which produce from the blood variolous matter; as other glands produce bile or saliva.
For it appears from the experiments of Van Woensel, that calomel or sublimate corrosive, triturated with variolous matter, incapacitates it from giving the disease by inoculation.
And secondly, that in hectic fever a part of the purulent matter is absorbed; or acts on the surface of the ulcer; as variolous matter affects the inoculated part of the arm.
Thus the variolous fever in the natural small-pox commences on the 14th day, and in the inoculated small-pox on the seventh day.
The variolous contagion is not received into the blood.
At the same time the inflammation of the arm inoculated with variolous matter was increasing fast, and he had the disease mildly at the usual time.
Though there is reason to believe, that the first time any common matter is absorbed, it has this effect, but not the second time, like the variolous matter above mentioned.
On the second day after the operation, the punctured parts were inflamed, though I think the arm in which I had insertedvariolous matter was rather more so than the other.
Shall we conclude from hence, that the variolous matter never enters the blood-vessels?
Neither am I of opinion that the disease was the effect of any variolous matter left in the blood, in consequence of the previous inoculation.
The effect of anyvariolous matter left in the blood, in consequence of the previous inoculation?
Our object being to convey practical knowledge, we pass on to a notice of the subjects, most liable to suffer from exposure to the variolous poison.
After this, the inoculation of variolous matter would produce no effect.
If properly conducted, it secures the constitution as much as variolous inoculation possibly can.
Yet we find the variolous matter fetched from those that have the inoculated smallpox altogether as agreeable and effectual as any other.
By this means you have a contagious caustic water instead of laudable pus, and a slight ferment in the lymph is raised, producing a few watery blotches in the place of a perfect extrusion of the variolous matter[938].
The antecedent objections to cowpox, arising out of its non-variolous nature, were met by appealing to the results of experiments.
John Green Cross, A History of the Variolous Epidemic which occurred in Norwich in the year 1819.
Cases illustrating the Nature ofVariolous Contagion and the Modifying Influence of Vaccine Inoculation.
They had to average the varying effects of Suttonian inoculation for its own sake, and the equally varying effects of it as the variolous test, and to find a broad difference between the two averages.
What is still more extraordinary, as far as facts have been hitherto ascertained, the person who has been infected is rendered insensible to the variolous poison[1074].
If the attack happen during a variolous epidemic constitution of the air.
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