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

  • Jordan, Henry J.
Date:
1860
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    In addition to the discreet and confluent varieties which have been mentioned, small-pox may occur in a malignant, modified, and inocu- lated form, and in all these forms it presents differences which are of some importance. In the malignant form, V. maligna, typhoid symptoms predominate, and instead of properly formed pustules, we may have flat purple vesicles, filled with bloody sanies, and inter- mingled with petechise and vibices. Modified small-pox, or varioloid disease, is the small-pox which occurs now and then in persons whose constitutions have been modified by vaccination, or by a previous attack of small-pox. In this form of the disease the eruption is scanty and imperfect—generally arrested in the vesicular stage, sometimes stopping short in the papular; the antecedent and accompanying fever is very trifling; and the secondary fever, or fever of maturation, is entirely absent. Varioloid disease is some- times called cliicken-pox by those who look upon varicella as a modification of variola, or who wish to prevent the alarm which might arise from using the term small-pox; but, as we have already pointed out [v. p. 120), there is