. A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians . Temperature in smallpox. Adult: mild case. (Original.) Variola, or smallpox, is a specific, infectious, and contagious fever,beginning abruptly with chill, high temperature, headache, vomiting,sweating, and intense pain in the back. On the second or third day ofthe disease a characteristic shot-like, papular eruption appears, the papulesrapidly developing first into vesicles and then into pustules; with theappearance of the rash the temperature falls, but rises again toward theend of the week in the pustular stage (fever
. A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians . Temperature in smallpox. Adult: mild case. (Original.) Variola, or smallpox, is a specific, infectious, and contagious fever,beginning abruptly with chill, high temperature, headache, vomiting,sweating, and intense pain in the back. On the second or third day ofthe disease a characteristic shot-like, papular eruption appears, the papulesrapidly developing first into vesicles and then into pustules; with theappearance of the rash the temperature falls, but rises again toward theend of the week in the pustular stage (fever of maturation or suppura-tion). The contents of the pustules are discharged, crusts form and arecast off about the eighteenth day. The disease may be accompanied by a. W 0)
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