Description of the distinct, confluent, and inoculated small pox, varioloid disease, cow pox, and chicken pox / by John D. Fisher.

  • Fisher, John D. (John Dix), 1797-1850.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Description of the distinct, confluent, and inoculated small pox, varioloid disease, cow pox, and chicken pox / by John D. Fisher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dozen in number in some cases, whilst in others they cover every part of the body, are coherent and even piled upon each other, as was the case in the eruption represented in figures A, and A, under the portraits, in plates XL and XII. There is a considerable variety also in the size of the pustules. They differ in this respect from the diameter of a common buck shot to that of a good sized pea, and are invariably smaller and less prominent on the face than on the extremities of the same individual, see figures A, and A, last referred to. Sometimes also the pustules contain but little fluid, are firm and resemble warts. These suppurate imperfectly, and usually desiccate without being ruptured, and have been termed by authors horn or crystalline pocks.