The Indian doctor's practice of medicine : Daily's family physician : important to every one--health, the poor man's riches, the rich man's bliss : giving the symptoms of diseases, and a vegetable treatment of the diseases of men, women, and children / by William Daily.

  • Daily, William.
Date:
1848
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Credit: The Indian doctor's practice of medicine : Daily's family physician : important to every one--health, the poor man's riches, the rich man's bliss : giving the symptoms of diseases, and a vegetable treatment of the diseases of men, women, and children / by William Daily. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The pustules are surrounded by an areola, of a damask-rose color. When the pustules are numerous, some degree of fever occurs on the tenth or eleventh day. In these cases, there is usually some soreness of the throat, hoarseness, and a copious discharge of a thin fluid from the mouth. The eruptive fever is of the synochus, and not unfrequent- ly of the synocha grade. The confluent variety. In this variety, all the above-men- tioned symptoms of the early stage are severer. The ac- companying fever at first synocha, then typhoid; pain in the loins, in the forming stage very severe; the severer this pain, the more certainly will the disease assume the con- fluent character. (Richter.) Seldom any profuse per- spiration, as in the dhtbict kind; istead of this, diarrhaa often occurs at this period. Great soreness and redness of the fauces, and generally a copious flow of saliva. The pustules appear earlier than in the distinct kind— seldom later than the beginning of the third day—very rarely as^late as the fourth or fifth day. The pustules not surrounded by an inflamed margin, -where they are sepa- rated- the intervening skin remaining pale and flaccid; the face is always much swollen—the swelling coming on earlier than in the distinct variety, and declining about the tenth day. The matter in the pustules is never thick and yellow, as in the distinct variety, but of a whitish brown, and sometimes dark color. About the eleventh day, the pustules break, aud pour out a fluid which hardens into brown or black crusts. When these fall off, the skin underneath desquamates, producing small and permament depressions, or pits in the skin. The fever does not cease, but remits on the appearance of the eruption, increasing again about the sixth day, and continuing throughout the whole course of the disease. The regular course of small-pox includes, therefore, four dis- tinct stages, viz: 1st, The ervptire fever, including a pe- riod of from two to four days. 2d, the period of eruption, of about two <&iys' continuance. 3d, The 2)erie>d of mai-