Health knowledge : a thorough and concise knowledge of the prevention, causes, and treatments of disease, simplified for home use . n af-forded to a community by previous attacks and, especially in thepresent day, by vaccination. Such protection, although for atime most effectual, tends to become exhausted, unless —While the symptoms of smallpox are essentiallythe same in character in all cases, they are variously modifiedaccording to the form which the disease may assume, there beingcertain well marked varieties of this as of most other infectiousmaladies. The following descr
Health knowledge : a thorough and concise knowledge of the prevention, causes, and treatments of disease, simplified for home use . n af-forded to a community by previous attacks and, especially in thepresent day, by vaccination. Such protection, although for atime most effectual, tends to become exhausted, unless —While the symptoms of smallpox are essentiallythe same in character in all cases, they are variously modifiedaccording to the form which the disease may assume, there beingcertain well marked varieties of this as of most other infectiousmaladies. The following description applies to an average the reception into the system of the smallpox contagion,the onset of the symptoms is preceded by a period of incubation,during which the patient may or may not complain. This period SMALL-POX DAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 AMPfl ^^^ 4 \ -* ^ 1\ Wv, .oz-_L_\; j__j4 n_ vjat . nrfi/: t : MiiJi^yrzi:: ^?^ n \ ^^^ TEMPERATURE CHART IN SMALLPOX In this, the temperature makes two definite waves; the first is shortand the second is ^JJIJ^^Ii^g^bTy Dermachromes. by permission of Rebman Co., N. Y. SMALLPOX SMALLPOX —VARIOLA 993 is believed to be from about ten to fourteen days. In cases ofdirect inoculation of the virus it is considerably shorter. Theinvasion of the symptoms is sudden and severe, in the form of arigor followed by fever (the primary fever), in which the tem-perature rises to 103° or 104° F. or higher, notwithstanding thatperspiration may be going on. A quick pulse is present, to-gether with thirst and constipation, while intense headache ac-companied with vomiting and pain in the back is among the mostcharacteristic of the initial symptoms. Occasionally the diseaseis ushered in by convulsions. Some authorities hold that themore violent the invasion the more severe the attack is likely toprove. These symptoms continue with greater or less intensitythroughout two entir
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