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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 451 of 653caused by the vesicles having broken out in the throat and on thepalate. The constitutional symptoms are never very important.The exhalations from such patients have the same odor as those ofvarioloid patients.Varioloid, or modified variola, always commences with a distinct,but not characteristic precursory stage. The patients experienceviolent chill, or most frequently chilly creepings which are at osucceeded by a violent febrile heat with increased temperature ana rapid pulse, and with such an intense feeling of illness, thatapproach of a severe disease is unmistakable. With the gastricsymptoms, a violent headache and even active delirium becomeassociated, and likewise a somewhat pathognomonic, severe pain inthe back and small of the back. As a rule, the fever remits in thmorning and exacerbates in the evening, increasing every day inintensity until it reaches its acme on the third evening, when theruptive stage commences. Shortly previous to the appearance ofthe exanthem, an hypersemia, consisting of large spots, is sometiperceived on various portions of the skin.The exanthem in most cases first breaks out in the face, whenceit spreads with tolerable regularity over the whole body, fromabove downwards. Red, scattered, lentil-sized spots break outEach single spot passes through the following course of development. In ten to twelve hours it changes to a papula, which, in thnext twenty-four hours, becomes transformed into a vesicle, thecentre of which is perforated by a hair and correspondingly depressed. In the next twenty-four to forty-eight hours the contentof the vesicle grow dim, and a pustule forms surrounded by anarrow halo. About the sixth day after the breaking out of theexanthem, the contents dry up, giving rise to a brown scab whichfalls off in three to. four days, leaving the spot somewhat injecThis course of development of one pock is not pursued by all theother pocks simultaneously, but occurs in the order in which theexanthem broke out, so that the whole process requires about elevdays or a fortnight until the scabs have completely formed. Thegeneral health shows the following changes while these phenomenaare taking place upon the skin. During the eruption the feverVariola, 585abates soraewliat, upon the whole the patient feela a little bettbut is tormented by the breaking out of pustules upon the mucouslining, which cause difficulties of deglutition, photophobia, crocough, urinary troubles. After the eruption is fully out, the patfeels almost well, and only complains of the distress caused by tjected and tense skin. The suppurative process is generally attenwith a mild fever which disappears entirely as soon as the pocksbegin to form, and which gives place to a feeling of health. Wewill mention a few deviations from this course when we come totreat of true small-pox. The remaining red spots seldom disappearentirely under a month. Scars remain after varioloid, the same asafter variola, only not in such large numbers, nor so deep ; in vloid the disorganizing process takes place most generally upon thexternal surface of the cutis, but does not penetrate beneath it.True variola begins with the same precursory symptoms as theprevious species ; according to Hebra, the precursory stage of vahttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt