Carbolic Acid in Small-Pox

Attracted by this letter, Dr. D. McEwen, an intelligent Assistant Surgeon, Her Majesty's British Forces, in medical charge of the Artillery at Saugcr, determined to make use of the agent in eruptive fevers, and he has kindly favored me, for publication in the Indian Medical Gazette, with the particulars of a case of small-pox in an officer of the Royal Artillery, where the physiological effect attributed to carbolic acid by Mr. Keith appears to have been distinctly observed. The patient was a young officer, aged 28, suffering, before being attacked by small-pox, from chronic scurvy. He had been laid up with a severe attack of scurvy five years previously. His gums were still very tender, and apt to bleed on pressure. He had not been vaccinated apparently?at least he had no recollection of ever having been told of the operation,