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On a remarkable Instance of the Injection of the Small-pox. By Dr. Jurin, 



Sec.R.S. W 373, p. 191. 



A young gentleman, ill of the small-pox, of that sort called the coherent, 

 or the middle between the distinct and the confluent kind, on Wednesday, 

 Oct. 3, 1722, being the 6th day from the eruption, became delirious in the 

 night, and got out of bed in spite of the opposition of two nurses that attended 

 him, and seizing one of his nurses by the neck with his bare arms, he pressed 

 her forehead against his naked breast, then covered with the small-pox in the 

 state of maturation, and held her for some time in that manner. She was 

 heated by striving with him, and in struggling to get loose, she was sensible 

 that she bruised and broke some of the pustules with her forehead. The woman 

 was about 40 years of age, of a clear, florid, sanguine complexion ; she said 

 she had had the small-pox, when she was about 7 or 8 years of age, and had 

 been pretty full of them, though I saw no marks on her face. On Friday 

 morning the small-pox began to appear on her forehead, and increased by degrees 

 to between 50 and 60; she had likewise a small number of pustules on the 

 back part and sides of her neck, where the gentleman had grasped her with his 

 naked arms; but had none, as she told me, on any other part of her body. 

 The lower part of her face was perfectly clear, and those on her forehead were 

 chiefly confined to the middle and most prominent part of it, which had been 

 pressed against the gentleman's breast. They rose gradually, and came to ma- 

 turity, in the same manner as the small-pox of the milder coherent kind use to 

 do, with a great inflammation and swelling of her forehead, and the adjoining 

 part of her face, especially between the eye-brows, where a small cluster of the 

 pustules were seated, insomuch that on Tuesday the Qth of October, her right 

 eye was quite closed up, and the left almost in the same condition; but all this 

 time she had no fever, sickness, or other symptom of the small-pox, except 

 this eruption, and the inflammation and pain that attended it. That night she 

 caused a blister to be applied to her neck, on which she recovered the sight of 

 her eye the next day, being the 6th from the eruption, when the pustules 

 were turning, and beginning to scab. The scabs agreed with those of the 

 milder coherent small-pox in their appearance and duration. I saw her hitherto 

 every day, as likewise at several times after this, and particularly on Monday, 

 Oct. 22, which was the 1 8th day from the eruption of the pustules, when she 

 had still some small part of the scabs remaining on her forehead. 



In this instance it is worthy of remark: l.That this woman, though she 

 had had the small-pox before, was yet infected again by the immediate and 



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