Nov. 23d. A very strong, fat, middle-aged man was inoculated with fluid
matter, from a person pretty full of the natural small-pox, and near
the crisis.
26th. He came to me, that I might inspect the arm, which then appeared
to be certainly infected, and very forward.
28th. He came to the house, and informed me he had been taken very
ill on the 26th in the evening, and continued so all the next day.
His complaints had been, great pains in his head and back, with
heat, thirst, and restlessness. He was at this time, however, pretty
well; but on inspecting the arms, they appeared much inflamed for
a considerable space round the incision, and the erysipelatous
appearance gradually extended itself over the greatest part of the
arms between the elbow and shoulder. He now complained only of slight
flying pains in his head and limbs, but without the least degree of
fever: after a bad night’s rest several eruptions were discovered on
the hips, and one on the neck. Some of these maturated, others dried
away; and, upon the whole, the procedure was such as would not by any
have been called variolous, if unattended with other circumstances.