A gentlewoman turned of 50, of a corpulent habit and clear complexion,
was inoculated about noon. On the following morning she informed
me that the inoculated parts, and more especially one arm, had
smarted very much, and felt benumbed up to the shoulder, and had been
sufficiently troublesome to disturb her rest: upon inspecting the
parts, they were found much inflamed, and a little elevated. These
kinds of feelings were complained of that whole day, and towards night
her head ached; but she had no increase of heat, or alteration in the
pulse. On the third morning there was a flushing on the skin round the
puncture on each arm, nearly the breadth of a sixpence; on applying
the finger, it felt hard about the middle; and upon the whole, the
appearances of infection were as evident as are usually observable
on the 9th or 10th day. I therefore ventured to assure her, that the
disease would pass over in a very slight manner, and most probably
without any eruption; and the event justified my prognostic.
She complained a little of pain in her head for several evenings, and
the inflammation on her arm increased; but on the 6th day it began to
turn to a yellowish brown, and every inflammatory appearance wore off:
she remained perfectly well, living with those who had the distemper,
and in an infected house, without any illness.