Skin diseases and their remedies / by Robert J. Jordan.

  • Jordan, Henry J.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Skin diseases and their remedies / by Robert J. Jordan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VARICELLA. any central depression), separate from each other, numerous, and usually affecting the breast, shoulders, and neck, in preference to the face. These vesicles are generally preceded and attended by slight febrile symptoms; they lose their original transparency, and become opaque and pear-like on the second or third day; on the fourth day they are shrivelled and sur- rounded by a faint red areola; on the fifth day they are fairly dried up; on the sixth day they have changed into small brownish scales, which soon crumble off, and leave very faint stains, which also vanish speedily, unless the vesicles have been irritated by scratching, when more slowly vanishing stains and slight permanent scars may be left behind. Crops of vesicles may come out in succession for three or four days. When the vesicles are larger than usual, and globular, the eruption is designated V. globata, or swine-pox; when they are smaller and lenti- cular, as they are usually, the designation of the eruption is V. lenticularis, or chicken-pox, properly so called. Varicella,or chicken-pox,has been thought by many to he a modification of small-pox, orvariola, and certain it is that cases of chicken-pox are