A Practical Treatise on Smallpox

by George Henry Fox

VX.

VARIOLA PUSTULOSA. (Tenth Day.)

A severe case, showing the characteristic aggregation of lesions on the face and extremities. [P.]

XI.

VARIOLA PUSTULOSA. (Ninth Day, Tenth Day, Eleventh Day.)

These illustrations show the pustular lesions in the stages of complete distention, when they present a rounded appearance, and of incipient desiccation, when they appear flattened and with a central depression or “secondary umbilication.” [P., F., F.]

XII.

Variola Pustulosa et Crustosa. (Tenth Day, Twelfth Day.)

In Fig. 1 an occlusion of the nasal passages is indicated by the lips parted in respiration. [P.] Fig. 2. shows a palmar condition which, in the adult, is found only in smallpox. [P.] Fig. 3 shows the desiccation of the facial eruption in advance of other regions. [P.] Fig. 4 shows a mild discrete case in which a diagnosis of acne had been made. [F.] Fig. 5 shows the eruption in the stage of desiccation. [F.]

XIII.