. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practioners . haled from the bodyis intolerably repulsive. All the systemic phenomena are propor-tionately grave and accompanied by one or more of the complica-tions of the malady, pneumonia, pleuro-pneumonia, albuminuria,diarrhoea, various motor and sensory paralyses, subcutaneous furun-cles, aud abscesses. The eyes may suffer from pustular and ulcera-tive changes in the conjunctiva, cornea, and deeper tissues, withresulting inflammation of every grade to panophthalmia, and resultingloss of vision. Often the patients,
. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practioners . haled from the bodyis intolerably repulsive. All the systemic phenomena are propor-tionately grave and accompanied by one or more of the complica-tions of the malady, pneumonia, pleuro-pneumonia, albuminuria,diarrhoea, various motor and sensory paralyses, subcutaneous furun-cles, aud abscesses. The eyes may suffer from pustular and ulcera-tive changes in the conjunctiva, cornea, and deeper tissues, withresulting inflammation of every grade to panophthalmia, and resultingloss of vision. Often the patients, with surprising powers of resist-ance, will survive till extensive sheets of crusts have fallen from thesurface, and then perish slowly in a typhoid condition with lowremittent or continuous fever. Every such case does not, however,conclude fatally. The author has seen children rally from the severestform of confluent variola, and enjoy afterward a vigor which illustrateswell the wonderful recuperative energy of the natural forces underthe most adverse circumstances. Fig. 32. c « Vertical section of pustule at the beginning of pustulation. a, umbilicatiou at the site of an excre-tory canal; b, reticulum within the epidermis ; e, reticulum of smaller meshes containing lymph- andpus-globules. (After ) Variola is always produced as the result of mediate or immediatecontagion. It is a disease which is both contagious and infectious,being transmissible by volatile emanations from the victims of thedisease. It is also artificially inoculable. When transmitted by thelatter process, its period of incubation is somewhat shortened, andoften its successive manifestations become then less formidable. Thehistory of inoculated human variola has, however, received but littleattention during the last decade, in which the practice has been VARIOLA. 145 properly forbidden by law. The disease is, to a certain extent,transmissible from man to the lower animals, and the reverse.
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