A practical treatise on smallpox. Illustrated by colored photographs from life / by George Fox ... With the collaboration of S.D. Hubbard, S. Pollitzer and J.H. Huddleston.

  • George Henry Fox
Date:
1903
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Credit: A practical treatise on smallpox. Illustrated by colored photographs from life / by George Fox ... With the collaboration of S.D. Hubbard, S. Pollitzer and J.H. Huddleston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. Note.—The names of the colored plates are in capitals. The letters II., P., and F. in brackets indicate that the cases were photographed by Hubbard, Pollitzer, or Fox. VARIOLA DISCRETA. (Ninth Day.} A typical case of mild smallpox occurring after vaccination and sometimes called Variola modiiicata or Varioloid. [P.] VARIOLA PUSTULOSA. (Tenth Day.) A severe case, sliow ing tlie characteristic aggregation of lesions on the face and extremities. [P.] VARIOLA PUSTULOSA. (Ninth Day, Tenth Day, Eleventh Day.) These illustrations show the pustular lesions in the stages of complete distention, when they present a rounded appearance, and of incipient desiccation, when they appear flattened and with a central depression or secondary unibilication. [P., F., F.] Variola Pustulosa et Crustosa. (Tenth Day, Twelfth Day.) In Fig. 1 an occlusion of the nasal passages is indicated by the lips parted in respiration. [P.] Fig. 2. shows a palmar condition which, in tlie adult, is found only in smallpox. [P.] Fig. .3 shows the desiccation of the facial eruirtion in advance of otlier regions. [P.] Fig. 4 shows a mild discrete case in which a diagnosis of acne had been made. [F.] Fig. 5 shows the eruption in tlie stage of desiccation. [F.] VARIOLA CRUSTOSA. (Eighteenth Day.) Showing u few thick crusts remaining upon the face with numerous dull red s^iots from which the crusts have fallen. [F.] VARIOLA DESICCATA ET SQUAMOSA. (Twentieth Day.) Figs. 1 and 3 show the dried pustules remaining in tlie thickened skin of palm and sole after the crusts have fallen elsewhere. [F., P.] Fig. 2 shows the super- ficial desquamation which follows the falling of the crusts, i^roducing rings of partly detached eiiidermis. [F.]