Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-30
Small Pox.

OF BODY, which is brought about by
the presence of germ, which may be
confidently supposed to be an ANIMAL
GERM.
There are four stages to this condi-
ton as follows:-
One stage of INCUBATION or hatch
ing. which occupies eight to fifteen
days. The average is TEN or ELEVEN
days, during which the patient may
feel completely we'll.
The SECOND STAGE is the stage of
| ''INvASION.
The THIRD STAGE that of the ERUP-
TON or the coming out of the rasheS;
and the fourth is the stage of CoNvAL-
ESCENCE.
To properly understand this condi-
ton we will explain (as we understand
it, the progress of the condition. Life
and death of this q ERM of NARIOLA.
First Stagc:-The germ enters the
body by some avenue and commences
to become warm and ut once sets about
in feeding and in reproducing itself
in myriadS of numbers. During this
entire time it is feeding on the plasma
of the blood and reproducing itself
daily.
At the expiration of this stage of
incubation, the germ commences to
die.
First, Because of lack of appropriate
food in the body.
Second. Because of length of it's life.
When this germ dies. then the
VITAL FORCE. through the agency OF
the blood corpuScleS. endeavors to
send the dead germs and their eXcrc-
mentitlous product. to the surface OF
the body.
To THE SKIN.
At the same time, there are certain
symptoms, such as ChillS. Dclifi,tln,
Headache, Fcro,, and appearance of
the Rash on the surface of the body
which indicate the manner in which
the VITAL FORCE is endeavoring to
CARRY OFF these dead and now fast
becoming putrefactive germs from the
body. GERMS PUTREFIED after they
die
While the skin is the dumping place
for all of these dead products, other
avenues of the body, as the bowels,
throat, kidneys and lungs are filled
with these dead materials which, in
the stage of incubation have been
living germs.
Second Stagc:-This so-called stage
OF "INVAsIoN," lasts about three days.
lhen, comes out the eruption, which
runs through the stages of PIaIPLE,
NEslCLE. PUsTULE and Scab or the
pit"
IT there has been very much vile
material in the body for this germ to
feed on. there will have been a SEVERE
CASE of smallpox.
If the body has been in fair condi-
tlon there will have been mild case
IN case the germ enters into the
body of dlunkdrd or a user of tobacco
we Shall or may have Il case where the
blood will die from the effects OF this
germ and the poisons which are elm
mated by this germ and when we
nave the death of the blood plasma or
the blood corpuScles, while the patient
Is alive, we shall have what is called a
stage of 'hcmorrugica.
Many OF these cases are fatal-nOt
because the germ is any different, but
because there is more material which
Is CoNGEHIAL to the SMALLPOX GERM
and we find the body rapidly dying
from the presence of countless num-
bers of these germs. If the body is in
the best of condition it could never
permit this germ to enter and obtain
a Judgment.
Clearly bodies can defy the small
poX.
Or, if the vile material has been so
transformed Tor eaten by the presence
OF some other germ, we may have a
MODIFICATION of this condition and
this condition is called "vARIoLoID. u
TREATMENT
should consist in starving the germ
from its natural foods, which are
meats. fats and vile materials and
also, in keeping the body so clean that
the vital force can readily eliminate
the dead germs from the body. with
dispatch, as soon as they commence
to die at the end of incubation.
To this end, the food of the patient
should consist of bread and f,1tits
DAILY BATHS, in water which is
appropriate.
Mildly tonic MEDICINES may be
used if they contain no poisons but
WATER is the great NATURAL REMEDY
in cases of all eruptive disease.
Under no circumstances should
physic ever be given. No kind and
for no purpose.
NEVER GIVE PHYsIC IN ANY STAGE
OF SMALLPOX.
In place of physic, there should be
used daily, the large injections to the
bowels and the daily bath with every
means OF keeping the reaction to the
surface, which is the condition most
favorable to assist the vital force to
send out the dead germs which have
been Matched or reproduced in the
body.
In the stage of '.INCJTBATJON - keen