The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach ; revised by William Spooner.

Date:
1900
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Credit: The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach ; revised by William Spooner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eruption comes out, and is always first noticed on the forehead. Small pimples appear on the face, then on the neck, arms, body, and legs. At first, they feel like shot under the skin. On the sixth day, a little matter forms on the top of each pimple, which is sunken in the centre. On the eighth day, the pus- tules are mature, and in a few more, days begin to break and form scabs. ]>efore they break, the face swells, and a flow of thick spittle comes from the mouth ; the throat is often swollen and there is some difficulty in swallowing. These symptoms disappear when the pustules break, but there is often a return of the fever, and in some cases this is a period of some danger. The scabs fall off about the twelfth day and often leave pock-marks on the face. On the seventeenth day the patient is well. The severity of the disease depends principally on whether the patient has been properly vaccinated. If so, and more especially if he has been re-vaccinated, the chances are, that if he gets small-pox at all, it will be very slight, and appear in what is called the modified form. When the disease is prevalent, masters of ships should insist on their crew being re-vaccinated when it can possibly be done—this is the only safeguard. Treatment.—^Mien the symptoms first appear, keep the bowels open gently with an occasional dose of salts, and give the fever-mixture (Receipt Xo. 2) three times a day. When the eruption is well out.
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