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Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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From a 1793 London paper: A 3-year-old child with severe confluent smallpox was accidentally treated with mercury ointment on leather applied to the stomach instead of prescribed mittens, leading to rapid improvement and benign suppuration. The case was published due to its significance.
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SMALL POX.
A Child of three years old, in the confluent small-pox, breathing laboriously, extremely restless, and the pustules almost universally exhibiting a deadly whiteness, was lately happily relieved by the application of a large piece of leather on the stomach, covered with unguentum hydrargyri Forrius, which was by mistake applied—instead of the mittens, prescribed by a physician. In a few hours the breathing 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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Accidental Mercury Ointment Treatment For Severe Smallpox In Child
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London
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A 3-year-old child suffering from confluent smallpox, with labored breathing, extreme restlessness, and deadly white pustules, was relieved by mistakenly applying a large piece of leather covered in unguentum hydrargyri Forrius to the stomach instead of prescribed mittens. Within hours, breathing eased, restlessness subsided, and pustules began to suppurate benignly. The case was deemed significant and published.