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(seq. 16)
S. Forster, Incission inflamed & festered - feverish & Pain in Head & Back, with Nausea. - Emet. Air - & warm {Pediluvium} - night & Morn -
Son John, hot & feverish, Bowells lax restless &c a few Specks, which appear like incipient Small Pocks, Arm inflamed & ulcerated - Emet. if restlessness &c continues towards Eve - to be carried into air - & use Warm {Pediluvium} Night & Morn.
June 23, Polly, Sally, Nancy & {Hephzibah} Bovey, each of them have but few pustules, never confined to House one hour. - keep Bowells lax & run about Island all the Time.
Josiah Nothage, has about 300 pustules, otherwise very well
Sally Nothage, has her Eruption compleat, about 50 pustules & goes about Island all the Time, keep Bow els lax &c
S. Forster, Eruption of Pustules yesterday, has but about 18 pustules, & those prominent & good, has been about . . .
(seq. 17)
going out into Air, keep Windows & Doors constantly open indulged in use of ripe Currants, Beveridge, Tamarinds & cool Drinks. - Pul: Tartar. {with} {Calomel} & Tart. Emet. octava {quaque} Hora, vel donee movetur [Alwy?]. -
July 11, Miss Gammage, Pocks maturated & filled very well, goes out daily & keeps up thro Day, dilutes freely & uses ripe Fruits - Takes Pul. Tart. {grains} v {Calomel} {grains} ij, Tart. Emet. {grain} 1/2 {quaque} Mane, which keeps Bowells twice or thrice moved daily - & puked her the first Dose. -
July 14, Miss Gammage very comfortable & well, free from Complaints, Bowells lax, pustules incrusting on Face & Neck. -
July 23, Miss Gammage, has taken Mist: Cath: 5 times all scabbs been off for 4 days, - This Day returned well.
(seq. 18)
1775 {September} 21, I was called to Mr Herrick, a stout Sailor Aged 27, belonging to a Transport, commanded by {Captain} James Hall. found him with a great degree of Fever quick pulse, thirsty, profuse Sweats, very great Pain in Back & Head, & had been thus indisposed for 2 Days past, I observed severall specks about his Face & Breast which, I suspected to be small Pox, & predicted ac cordingly, directed dilution, coolTAir, to sit up & Pul: Nitre: {with} {Calomel} & Tart. Emet: sexta {quaque} Hora. -
{September} 22, Herrick, eruptions more visible & some of them ele vated, Powders have operated freely, pain in Back not quite so acute, Same Regimen &c
{September} 23, Herrick Eruptions more elevated, but small, very thick in face Hands, Arms, Legs & Feet, not so thick in Breast. - Pul: Niter, {grain} + {Calomel} {grains} ij, Tart: Emet: {grain} 1/4 quarta {quaque} Hora , primary wound Suspect: dilution & cool Regimen - Pain in Back &c gone off .
(seq. 19)
{September} 24, Herrick face beginning to swell, Pocks low & vesicle confluxed in face, scarcely elevated in Breast &c - Pul. Niter. & {Calomel} Tart: continued - dilution &c this Day removed him to Hospital at West Benton -
{September} 25, Herrick, Pock more & more confluxed, more eleva ted, had many discharges from Bowells this forenoon - Powder omitted, dilute & keeps cool. - Many more erup tions on Breast than yesterday. -
{September} 26, Herrick, face more swelled, Pock confluxed almost over whole Body, Ptyalism considerable, complains of heat & Soreness of Throat. dilute & keep cool. -
{September} 27, A Mr Walker, appointed by General Gage to superintend the Small Pox Hospital at New Benton who left this Polite message, - his Compliments, & that I had no more to do with that Hospital. -
(seq. 20)
{October} 10, in the afternoon I was called to visit Cato Brown a Temperate Fellow, middle aged, whom I found with a distinct Eruption of the Small Pox upon his Face, Breast & Hands, scarcely any eruptions upon his Legs, the Pustules not much elevated or pointed; informed Me that this was the third Day of the Eruption, & that his first Complaints were Pain in Head & Back, Rigors & all the common Symptoms which precede eruption he appeared to have but little Fever now, but complain ed of sore Throat &c Tongue foul & white, face not much swelled. - directed {fargais: ex Aq: rosar Mil: & Acct. to be used frequently - to keep up as much as he was able, dilute freely with subacid Drinks . -
{October} 11, Cato Brown, Ditto
{October} 12, Cato Brown, as yesterday, restless nights, complains much of Sore Throat, passed but one small indurated Stool for 36 hours past – Sal. Nitr Sp, {Calomel} {grain} iv, Sach: Alb: [ounce?] Mtertia {quaque} Hora sumend, donee solvetur [Amur?] - dilution &c three Stools - Laud: Lig: {quart} xv