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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    legs; and there is generally a period of two full days between the time of its appearance upon these opposite extremities of the body. For the first two days after its appearance, the eruption consists of simple pimples, and at an early period the appearance of the skin may not be unlike what it is in some of the ob- scurer forms of scarlet fever or measles. On the third day after the appearance of the erup- tion, a small quantity of clear lymph is present under the summits of the pimples. During the fourth and fifth days from the appearance of the eruption, the quantity of fluid increases, and the pimples are transformed into flattened, umbilicated vesicles, with opaque coats and contents, and surrounded by narrow red areolae. On the sixth day from the appearance of the eruption, the vesicle is changed into a pustule by the contents becoming transformed into pus; and contemporaneously with this change, the umbilical depression which was character- istic of the vesicle is lost, in consequence of the giving way of the bride to which this depression was due. During the seventh and eighth days from the appearance of the eruption, the pus- tules increase in size, and become turgid and