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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Carlisle, a 3-year-old child with severe confluent smallpox was accidentally treated with a stronger mercury ointment instead of the prescribed milder version, resulting in rapid improvement and benign suppuration of pustules. The case was deemed significant and published.
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SMALL-POX.
A child of 3 years old, in the confluence small-pox; breathing laboriously, extremely restless, and the pustules almost universally exhibiting a deadly witness, was lately happily relieved by the application of a large piece of leather on the stomach, covered with unguentum hydrargyri fortius, which was by mistake applied instead of the mitius, prescribed by a physician. In a few hours the breath softened, and restlessness subsided, and the pustules discovered a disposition to suppurate benignly. -This case has been considered of such consequence, that an account of it has been published.
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Carlisle
Event Date
Lately
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child's breathing softened, restlessness subsided, pustules suppurated benignly; case published as significant.
Event Details
A 3-year-old child with confluence small-pox, breathing laboriously, extremely restless, with pustules exhibiting deadly witness, was relieved by mistaken application of unguentum hydrargyri fortius on stomach instead of mitius prescribed by physician.