204 EDWARD JENNER 



was taken. The following communication from Mr. Fewster 

 affords a still clearer elucidation of this fact. Mr. Fewster 



says : "On the 3d of April, 1797, I inoculated Master H , 



aged fourteen months, for the smallpox. At the usual time 

 he sickened, had a plentiful eruption, particularly on his face, 

 and got well. His nursemaid, aged twenty-four, had many 

 years before gone through the smallpox, in the natural way, 

 which was evident from her being much pitted with it. She 

 had used the child to sleep on her left arm, with her left 

 cheek in contact with his face, and during his inoculation he 

 had mostly slept in that manner. About a week after the 

 child got well she (the nurse) desired me to look at her face, 

 which she said was very painful. There was a plentiful 

 eruption on the left cheek, but not on any other part of the 

 body, which went on to maturation. 



"On enquiry I found that three days before the appearance 

 of the eruption she was taken with slight chilly fits, pain in 

 her head and limbs, and some fever. On the appearance of 

 the eruption these pains went off, and now, the second day 

 of the eruption, she complains of a little sore throat. 

 Whether the above symptoms are the effects of the smallpox 

 or a recent cold I do not know. On the fifth day of the 

 eruption I charged a lancet from two of the pustules, and 

 on the next day I inoculated two children, one two years, the 

 other four months old, with the matter. At the same time 

 I inoculated the mother and eldest sister with variolous 



matter taken from Master H . On the fifth day of their 



inoculation all their arms were inflamed alike ; and on the 

 eighth day the eldest of those inoculated from the nurse 

 sickened, and the youngest on the eleventh. They had both a 

 plentiful eruption, from which I inoculated several others, 

 who had the disease very favourably. The mother and the 

 other child sickened about the same time, and likewise had 

 a plentiful eruption. 



"Soon after, a man in the village sickened with the small- 

 pox and had a confluent kind. To be convinced that the 

 children had had the disease effectually I took them to his 

 house and inoculated them in both arms with matter taken 

 from him, but without effect." 



These are not brought forward as uncommon occurrences, 



