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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    Variola. Syn. Small-jiox. Fr. Petite verole. Germ. IJocken. biattrrri. When fully formed, the eruption of small- pox consists of plump, yellow, hemispheroidal pustules; surrounded by damask red areolae; but before reaching this stage, it has been in turn composed of hard, conical, red pimples and of umbilicated vesicles—of vesicles, that is, which are bound down in the centre by a navel-like depression. Following the pustules are scabs, and following these are transitory purplish stains, or permanent scars, according as the structure of the true skin has been less or more destroyed by the pustular inflamma- tion. The pustules are symptomatic of high contagious fever. Small-pox begins with sharp fever,—rigors, and often convulsion, then heat, dryness, red- ness of skin, nausea, and vomiting, severe pain in the back and loins, thirst, quick pulse, and! so on. The eruption begins on the third day from the commencement of the fever, and con- tinues to come out during the fourth and fifth days. It begins on the face; it ends on the