SMALL-POX CASES AND GENERAL HOSPITALS.

External Application of Carbolic Acid in Cases of Small-Pox

" 3rd.?It might prevent the suppurative stage of the disease. "Of the 18 cases, 4 have died, 3 of these having been brought in a very bad state to the dispensary, and where I consider my opportunities for treatment were not good: the 4th case was treated for 4 or 5 days, and, when apparently well, the patient suddenly fell back without any premonitory symptoms, and died. The other 14 cases have...

Cases of Small-Pox Treated with Sulphuret of Calcium Solution

when they are ordered to have a thorough washing with warm water and soap, clothes included, before tbey are finally discharged. Under the ordinary treatment by "diaphoretics, &c., patients usually remain about six weeks in hospital. The following cases in which the external treatment has been added to the exhibition of aperients and diaphoretics, will show how, by destroying the eruptions at a...

Xylol in Small-Pox

slightest symptom observable due to the xylol. The result was as follows : On the second day of the xylol treatment, when 45 nuns, were administered, the rash was fully pustular. On the next day the pustules were nearly all dried up, and the following day found every trace of pustule disappeared. The sepoy bears four good vaccination marks (evidently of childhood) and a failed revaccination in ...

The Differential Diagnosis of Small-Pox and Chicken-Pox

Arthritis Following Small-Pox

To the Editor, The Indian Medicai, Gazette. Sir,?With reference to Dr. Gopal Singh Chawal's letter in the correspondence columns of your issue for May 1927, with regard to arthritis as a complication of small-pox, 1 wish to say that arthritis as a complication cf small-pox is neither very rare nor unheard of. I have myself seen four such cases in a village of population 8,000 in Ramnad District...