SMALL-POX IN THE " THREE TOWNS."

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

Introduction: Reclaiming Small Towns

Most books dealing with cities start with international statistics on urbanisation. These figures underline the shift towards an urban world. For instance, it is common to begin by stating, after the UN, that since 2014, 54 % of the world population lives in cities, and that the least urbanised continents, Africa and Asia, are also those experiencing the most rapid urbanisation. We also open wi...

Carbolic Acid in Small-Pox

Attracted by this letter, Dr. D. McEwen, an intelligent Assistant Surgeon, Her Majesty's British Forces, in medical charge of the Artillery at Saugcr, determined to make use of the agent in eruptive fevers, and he has kindly favored me, for publication in the Indian Medical Gazette, with the particulars of a case of small-pox in an officer of the Royal Artillery, where the physiological effect ...

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...