Dec. 19.] A healthy florid young man was inoculated in both arms;
and soon after on the same day he felt a disagreeable numbness and
stiffness, beginning at the incision in one arm, and extending as high
up as the shoulder. That night at going to bed he took five grains of
calomel in a pill.
On the 20th the same kind of sensation in the arm remained, extending
also to that side of the head, which was in some pain. These complaints
continued this day and the next. I ordered him to take the same
mercurial pill at going to bed.
22d. Another indifferent night, with the same complaints, and a
stiffness in both shoulders. The pulse appeared to be rather quickened,
but without any such increase of warmth as was sufficient to be called
fever. The incisions were unusually forward.
23d. In the morning I was told he was better, and had taken a ride to
visit his mother at about ten miles distance; also that he had several
pimples, which were believed to be the distemper.
In the afternoon he returned, when I found there were several pustules
out, which had the appearance of being true small-pox; and his arms
were as forward as is usual at the time of eruption. All his complaints
were now gone off, and he seemed quite well.
24th. Gone abroad for his pleasure.
25th. He called on me; and the pustules having advanced properly
towards maturation, I ordered him immediately to the house, where he
remained perfectly well, and the pustules, which were about twenty,
maturated very kindly.
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27th. He took a purgative, which operated moderately. On the 28th he
returned home in good health, and has continued so ever since.