THE DIAGNOSIS OF SMALL-POX AND CHICKEN-POX: A CONTRAST

The Differential Diagnosis of Small-Pox and Chicken-Pox

Chicken-pox and the Guilain Barre syndrome.

D.H., male, age 9 years 11 months, developed chickenpox in March 1960. He had an extensive rash and showed more general illness at the outset than did his younger brother who infected him. After a week, he complained of headache and pain in his limbs and began to vomit. When he tried to get up, he cried with pain in his legs. These symptoms persisted. When seen for the first time 14 days after ...

Vaccinating Fowls for Chicken Pox

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 ...

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...