Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-02-20

ed to the free of animal food, and alcoholic
or vinous liquors, the Small Pox will be very
likely to assume what is termed the infammatory
tupe 1t is then often violent, intractable and
fatal In delicate and debiltated females, it as
sumes what is often termed conjestive charac
ter--the patient is affected with listlessness stu
Dor, and typhoid delrium. In the last century,
this form was called the ncruous. OF Typhoid
Small por 1t is usually attended by CHASTITY
paeness and is one of its most malignant forms.
Another severe form of the disease is what was
termed by Sydenham, the Black Small Por--
it was described also by Morton and others, and
IT the present day it is termed in Italy the Fry
sipelatous Small Por 1t is characterized by a
suffocative catarrh, which gives to the face and
the surface of the body generally, a livid appear
ance and the pustules never attain their usual
size. The skin consequently is not rough as
usually is, and on this account the Italians have
Iiyen to it the name it bears All Of these
ieties, it is repeated, are Small Pox essentially
ne same, the difference depending alone upon
Individual peculiarities. Small Pox pustules are
distributed usually over the whole surface of the
lody not however over the whole surface in
equal profusion The face presents the greatest
number, and next to this, the upper extremities
comparatively a much smaller number are
observed upon the trunk.
After these descriptions Of Small Pox and Fry
sipelas, will only say that the appearance of
Mrs. Percy, and all the phenome ma in connection
with her disease, were those Of Small Pox. The
vescles or pustules were large and full, especial
ly upon the upper extremties, while upon tho
lower limbs they were smaller and less matured,
precisely in Small Pox In the face they were
too much continent in their character to be mis-.
taken, or to be individually we'll defined
There is no disease which makes SO near an
approach to Small Pox, as Caicken Por The
form Of the pmple or pustule is the same, .often.
times, as that of the Small Pox, but not always
There have been three varieties of the Chicken
Pox described by medical writer's, two Of which
have repeatedly met with in practice, and very
probably the third also. Ia the first kind, the
pustue is almost, if not quite, precisely like that
Of Small Pox. The pustules however are very
few in number, not more than three four per-
haps, or at most a dozen. In the Conoidai va.
riety alone the pustules very numerous, but
their convex upper surface clearly distinguishes
them from the pustules of Small Pox. When
in Ireland in 1897, visited repeatedly the Small
Pox Hospital in Dublin, where one of these spu.
rious cases of Small Pox was shown me By Doct
Smyley the medical attendant; the eonoiaal
submits of the pustules clearly defined their
character to be that of Chicken Pox The Vario-
3Oid makes the nearest approach to Chicken Pox.
Besides, the regular order of sequents in Small
Pox is different from that of Chicken Pox--the
eruption comes earlier in Chicken Pox, and
makes its first appearance upon the trunk, and
subsequently spreading 20 the face scalp and ex.
trcnlities.
III person is exposed 10 the morbid poison Of
Smallpox, tho period 10 moi always the same at
which the disease shows itself. 1t may vary rom
the 10Th to the 18th day-!fa person be sezsd
with small pox, he is not under some days sourcs
Of danger to others - The degree Of advancement
necessary to enable the disease to propagate self has
not been determined, perhaps with the incest
curacy II certainly cannot, before the eruption Of
the skin be communicated TO another individual
and i, is quite probable, it cannot be for sometime
aiieward After the eruption has shown sslf i,
would seem as if further time necessary for
the elaboration Of the efficient material for propaga.
ion think may state it IA fact, that if matter
be taken from a small pox patient on The I'd day Of
the eruption, and be introduced the point Of
lancet into the system ola suscep lbIc individual, that
the incubation will prove harmless. in specific
language, it will not communicate smallpox. The
corolary from this is important A late London
Medical Journal has published the account of large
English Ship, which had several Of smallpox
on board of her while her passage from the coast
of Africa. Eight individuals Oh board Of this ship
were seized about the same time; tho
disease was recognized, tent was erected upon the
main-top, into which all the patients were hos,ed,
and confined there during the remainder Of the dis
| ease Notwithstanding the number of passengers
which were crowded board Of this ship, the fur
Their progress ofthe smallpox was arresed-For iy
years ago when inoculation was extensively prac-
tsed, no physician thought of taking the matter from
the l-pox patient before the eighth day when the
pusule was ripe-until that time the matter was
not considered contagious matter. This fact howev
e seems to have been lost sight of since the general
introduction Of v0cciaGtion and the abandonmentof
incubation. A conviction of its truth will afford
consolation to those who have been accidentally ex-
posed to take the poison of Small-Pox, even for
whole day after the appearance of the eruption. 1t
would be well were this fact to be borne in mind
BY some " no have recently published their doubts
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