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SMALL-POX IN SHKKl'. 



Shkkp a. 



fever has taken on the typhoid 

 character ; the eyehds are swollen 

 so as to close over the eyes ; the 

 lachrymal secretion is thickcnedby 

 an admixture of mucus, and runs 

 down the checks ; the muzzle and 

 sides of the face are likewise swol- 

 len ; a discharge of sanguineous 

 mucus flows from the nostrils ; 

 the respirations number 44 in the 

 minute, and are accompanied with 

 painful moans ; the breath and 

 exhalations are fetid ; the pulse is 

 rapid and wavering ; the poor 

 animal takes but little notice, and 

 is mostly found recumbent. Every 

 part of the skin is studded with 

 papulae, which are becoming more 

 confluent. 



Sept. 29. — The patient died 

 this morning. The post-mortem 

 examination shewed the skin to 

 be thickly covered with confluent 

 papulse, especially on the inferior 

 parts of the abdomen, where they 

 had formed large patches ; the 

 wool could be separated very ea- 

 sily from the cutaneous follicles ; 

 the exposed integument was of a 

 dull-red colour ; the subcutaneous 

 structure was highly congested, 

 more particularly beneath the 

 larger collections of the papula; ; 

 the mucous membrane of the re- 



Shekp B. 



Sept. 30. — On the whole this 

 sheep is better, although the pa- 

 pulae have increased in number 

 and begun to take on the conflu- 

 ent type. (A lamb was this day 

 confined in the shed with this 

 patient, that we might satisfy our- 

 selves respecting the time of the 

 incubation of the malady, and 

 whether this really differs in na- 

 tural and inoculated cases, as 

 was found in the preceding in- 

 stances.) 



Oct. 1 . — The patient has expe- 

 rienced another relapse, and now 

 presents a very dejected appear- 

 ance : all food is refused ; the 

 breath is fetid ; the respiration 

 painful ; and the pulse too feeble 

 to be numbered with accuracy. 



Oct. 2. — The fever has more 

 the character of typhus than 

 yesterday, and the vital powers 

 are becoming exhausted. The 

 papulae are chiefly confluent, but, 

 in some places, they are distinct; 

 no vesicles, however, are to he de- 

 tected on any of them*. Tlie ani- 

 mal was seen by Dr. Gregory, 

 Physician to the Small-Pox Hos- 

 pital ; by Mr. Ceely, of Ayles- 

 bury, and others ; all of whom 

 recognized the disease as ovine 

 variola, and remarked on its great 



* Plate No. 1 gives a correct representation of a portion of this 

 animal's skin as it appeared this day : it shews both the papular and 

 confluent type of the disease. 



