_January 9._ A strong healthy man, aged 24 was inoculated. The eruptive
complaints began on the 8th day, ran pretty high, and on the inoculated
parts of each arm he felt very great and unusual pains. On the 10th a
true erysipelatous swelling attacked one arm, and extended from the
shoulder to the elbow; the other was also affected in the like manner,
but not so considerably. In the evening of the same day he complained
of great pain and soreness about his stomach, and at this time the
whole surface of the skin was nearly covered with a rash and petechial
spots of different colours and sizes.
What I distinguish by the name of rash, were pimples much resembling
the confluent pocks, and rising above the skin; the petechial spots
were interspersed, and even with the skin; some of these were small
like flea-bites, others were near as large as a silver penny; some
were of a very dark purple, and others of a livid colour. I observed
them carefully, assisted by a good convex glass, and found the
appearances singular and alarming. But as the fever was not high in
proportion to such appearances, the head and back free from pain, and
no great weakness attended, the event seemed to be the less doubtful.
The patient drank a bason of white wine whey at going to bed, and I
found him pretty well in the morning: the erysipelas began to be less
fiery, and put on a darker hue; a few large distinct pustules of real
small-pox soon discovered themselves, and from this time all went on
very well; the arms indeed were of a livid colour for some time, but
gave the patient no pain or uneasiness, so that he passed through the
whole process perfectly well in every other respect.