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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    stage^ perliaps, for varicella. The papula', of variola are firmer, harder, more granular than those of measles. In small-pox the preliminary fever continues for two days; in measles, for three days. In small-pox the preliminary fever is attended at its onset with severe pains in the back and loins (which pains, according to Chomel, are characteristic of small-pox); in measles the predominant symptoms are those of coryza and catarrh. In febrile lichen the appearance of the eruption is very similar to that which belongs to an early period of the papular stage of small-pox; hut the preliminary fever is comparatively slight, and the eruption generallv comes out within twenty-four hours from the occurrence of rigors, and almost simultaneously all over the body. The vesicles of varicella are non-umbilicated; those of variola are umbilicated. Varicella, moicor er, is a trifling affection, so far as the preceding and attendant fever is concerned, and it is neither contagious nor inoculable. In its simple form, occasional spongings with tepid water, a cool well-ventilated room, and a cooling regimen, is the only treatment required until the secondary fever sets in;