. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . 5mallpo}c—{lie mosl loathsome of all diseases. [From photograph6j WTINATIGN prevents smallkk Irotect the little children, ^ Departwent oj Hea,l1h, Chicago — Edi*e*ticmtX 6ertfc5. ^^ Fig. 103. body. Even the mildest cases have that. None of the cases end in coldsor other mild, deceiving forms of sickness. However, the smallpox soresmay be so few and the fever and aches which precede or follow them somild that the man thinks his blood out of order. It does not occurto him that so mild a disease could possibly be smallpox. He may have 216 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES four
. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . 5mallpo}c—{lie mosl loathsome of all diseases. [From photograph6j WTINATIGN prevents smallkk Irotect the little children, ^ Departwent oj Hea,l1h, Chicago — Edi*e*ticmtX 6ertfc5. ^^ Fig. 103. body. Even the mildest cases have that. None of the cases end in coldsor other mild, deceiving forms of sickness. However, the smallpox soresmay be so few and the fever and aches which precede or follow them somild that the man thinks his blood out of order. It does not occurto him that so mild a disease could possibly be smallpox. He may have 216 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES four days of fever and aches and then break out here and there. Hefeels much better than when he had fever, but his sores are a little toosore for him to go to work, so he visits around for the rest of the week. These mild cases are just as contagious as the more violent ones. Infact in the Middle West 90 per cent, of the smallpox is spread by thesewalkers. The incubation period of smallpox is twelve days. That means thatthe viru
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