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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    foveolse. This permanent foveolated cicatrix is characteristic of successful vaccination. This is the usual course of the eruption pro- duced by vaccination. Usually, that is to say, the symptoms are entirely local and restricted to the wound or wounds where the virus was introduced; but sometimes there is more febrile disturbance, and sometimes, though rarely, an herpetic eruption may overspread contempo- raneously a considerable portion of the body, and sometimes the inflammation may extend to the subcutaneous tissues of the arm and cause considerable swelling or abscess. This latter accident must generally be attributed to some fault in the constitution of the child, probably to the vaccination having been performed at an improper time. It is to be remembered, also, that the course of the eruption is never so regular in the adult as in the child, and that the local inflammation and febrile disturbance is generally greater in the adult. Cow-pox is a somewhat uncommon eruption on the skin of cattle, chiefly confined to the udders of milch-cows, spreading by contagion, characterised by the successive development of pimples, umbilicated vesicles, non-umbilicated pustules, hard brown scabs, and deep and per-