Such is the usual progress of the disease: subsequent to vaccination,
it is a mild and tractable disorder. It is right, however, to mention
that small-pox has occurred even to the vaccinated in almost as severe
a form as the confluent natural small-pox, and running its regular
course unaltered or unmodified. Such instances, however, are extremely
rare, and form the exceptions to the general rule; for "no reasonable
doubt can be entertained, from the abundance of facts now before the
world, that such modification is the law of the animal economy, and
that the regular or natural progress is the exception."
MATERNAL MANAGEMENT.--The grand principle in the treatment of small-pox
is to moderate and keep under the fever; and however the plans adopted
by different medical men may vary in particular points to accomplish
this purpose, they uniformly make this principle their chief aim and
object. To carry out this intention, however, the medical adviser is
greatly dependent upon the aid and assistance of a judicious parent,
and without this it is impossible to hope for a successful issue to
the case. A clear knowledge, therefore, of those points of general
management in which in fact a great part of the above principle
consists (few and simple as these directions are), it must be
all-important for the mother to be acquainted with: for the rest,
she must and ought to look to the medical man.
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