The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-25
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 varice1la or Chicken pox: Chicken Pox Is the 1nfldest qf the eruptive fe- verss It is characterized by success. sive crops of vesicles or water -biisters distributed over the entire surface of the body. which disappear in from ro q days by drying up and scaling. The germ causing 1t has never been sieved by many physicians to be a modified form of smallpox, but we now have abund dant proof that this IS
 Itzs efninentlv a disease of childhood It even effects nursing babies. It occurs more frequently at the age of five and is rarely met with after the age of 1O- It rarely occurs a second time in the same individual Single cases occur from time to time but fE is usually found in epaoem1cs' one%chfId transmitting to many. It is highly contagious especially durln&, the scaling of the rash
 Aftersa child has been exposed tc is usually ten to seventeen days before the Hisease shows. Unlike some or the other eruptivesfevers of childhood if n3ay appear without the child show ing anvz other signs than the rash , Recently T saw two children whose mother only discovered the rash when giving the. daily bath. The children were we'll otherwise. The rash d1sap- UZaEEu baby in the same family had a slight fever and was sick child Usually a child will complain of being warm, refuse it's food. not care to play or act its natural self. If it's body is exam ined at this time the rash will usual 1y be found on the back and sides Of the abdomen. Each spot of the rash is at first red patch of skin, soon be- coming a blister, reke1nblihg in size the head of a pin to split pea An Al important point in diagnosing chick en-pox Is the fact that pricking the leaving no raised portion of skin
 The rash hrst appears on the trunk usually the abdomen or sides of the body. It is thicker on the back, breast ana scalp and appears rarely on the face usua lIy being limited to the foEe- head One other point in deterTnin ing the rash of chicken pox is the fact that the pustHtles never run together as in measles Another point is that one blister may be drying mp and next to # appears fresh blister
 The rash often shows on the lining Of the mouth and tongue and the va- gina in girls is frequently favorite place for the rash. The rash 5e- comes annoying because of the i'm tense itching which leads the child to break the bIisters by rubbing and scratching and giFes an appearances of numerous skin abrasions with each one having a healing scab. A strfk ing feature of chioken-pox is the pr es- enc4 of two. three or four crops of faslies in different stages. one being reznazn5nE faint red blotch with. tiny scales. another crop. showing the. blister with a fresh scab another showing perfect blister and yet anoth-' CT being the first red patch Of a fu-. t4re blister Occasionally one may see n spot or two containing pus or Fnatter and this may confuse the dis ease WfEh szna 1-pox wl1f1h has for it's eharaeEerIstic many pustules or pals blisteFs- zE it is noticed carefu11y it win he eseeu that these spots contain ' ing pha are only few in number and. are due to the child injecting a bffs-s ter with it's finger nails. The yes- icles remain without change until the third day and then begin to dry up and scale Tn most other cases of this kind. especially smallpox, the rash remains longer.
 In srnaIl-pox the person usually complains of being il. has fever, pains in the limbs. headache and takes to