Abstract: Watercolour medical illustration depicting the stomach of an ass that had been inoculated. It has the alternative reference number 1706, 400 and P12 on the front. There is no Richmond Hospital Museum reference. The handwritten note on the back reads 'Stomach of an ass that had been inoculated with the matter taken from the [?] & pustules of a man labouring under gland[?]. The lymph was inserted into the left nostril, the pus into the opposite one & also into the ear. On the following evening, the ass appeared unwell & next day had enlargement of one of the glands of the jaw on the left side, with great heat & tenderness, accompanied by [?] symptoms. The left [?] swolled & the line of absorbents from this to the gland on the side of the jaw could be traced distinctly. Next day there was a profuse watery discharge from both nostrils & on the following (the 5 d. from inoculation) the discharge was purulent. Soon afterwards the animal was killed with nux vomica, it having been generally ascertained by Mr Ferguson V.S, that the animal was really glandered. On examination a cluster of pustules were found in the left nostril & inocular patches of ulceration in the right. Similar ulcers were found in the stomach & pustules in the lungs'.
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