Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-01-31
DIsFIGUREMENTBY SMALLPOX
Prescribed Method of Preventing the
Worst Terror OF That
Disease.

IL \ POA ~0SSS ~ AAN NNS
all prudent people living in or visiting
New York to resort to vaccination as a
precautionary measure. The physi-
cions and public authorities take all
necessary precautions for the seclusion
of the cases, but suggest OF the part of
the public the exercise of all other
known preventives.
The disease itself has a long, bad
history. 1t was known in India and
China some centuries before the Chris
tian era, and during the middle ages
its appearance in Europe resulted in
frightful mortality, sometimes carry
ing off one in every four of an infected
district, says the Toledo Medical Com
pend.
The name smallpox is simply a cor
ruption OF two words, "small" 'pocks,"
and in the early stages of the disease
these pocks may be distinctly felt un-
derneath the skin, like fine shot. Later
they appear on the surface as vesicles
Tor pimples) and finally become the
characteristic pustules. Within each
of these pustules is set up an active
process Of liberation, which if not
checked destroys that portion of the
true skin involved, and results in the
permanent and unsightly system of
scars known as "pockmarks."
DIR. Elmer Lee, of New York, a noted
specialist, has this to say on the SUBJ
ject of preventing these pockmarks or
pits:
Smallpox pitting can be prevented
by applying to the face antiseptic
remedies, and I think the most desir-
able is n made of ozone and gIycerin.
The gIycerin has the body to hold the
ozone. and also. being such a very
heavy liquid, enables it to be worked
into the pores of the skin, and to check
Preventative processes that makeup q
large part of the liberation. If this
fermentation, which is a part of the ul-
ceratlve process, can be stopped then
pitting can be prevented. The less the
liberation, the less the pitting. If the
liberation can be entirely prevented
there will be only an exterior scat
which leaves no pit.
1.-THE trouble with grease or oint-
ments which are sometimes applied to
the face is that they are not true anti
septics, and have no chemical influence
to stop the liberation. While they les
sen the friction, and therefore are
soothing, they do not check the fer
mentative process of the ulcer. WEatis
wanted is a true antiseptic that will
control and stop the chemical ferment.
We have such prepared under the trade
names of Glycozone and Hydrozone.
There is also another preparation that
is useful in combination with the two
preceding, ones- 1t is a liquid soap
made of vegetable oils combined with
glycerin, and is known as Elixio.
Wherever these agents nave been prop
erly and faithfully used pitting has
been prevented.
The skin should be first. cleansed
with diluted Hydrozone and this fol-
lowed by the heavy liquid ~'Glycozone.'
Hydrozone is a very. powerful destroy
er of ferments. Glycozone is milder,
but more lasting. The H~ydrozone acts
only upon dead matter or matter in
process of pu~trefaction. Applied to
healthy skin it would have no more
effect than water, but applied to a sore
it produces p~rofuse bubbling.
1.-THE treatment I have indicated
should be repeated daily. If that is
done there will be no pitting. This pit
ting is the worst feature of smallpox
The deaths from the disease have never
been so numerous as is popularity sup
posed, but the evil of pitting can hard
ly be overestimated. 1t is not only ar
is a great injury"
Hydrozone is double strength perox-
ide of hydrogen, and is now generally
used by the medical profession instead
of the latter. DIR. L. C. Schutt, of To1e-
do, o., speaking of its use in smallpox.
THE topical application of
peroxide of hydrogen or g%lycozone is
very beneficial"