WAS IT SMALL-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...

Small(pox) Success?

The 30 th anniversary of the World Health Organization's (WHO) official certification of smallpox eradication was marked by a slew of events hailing the campaign's dramatic tale of technological and organizational triumph against an ancient scourge. Yet commemorations also serve as moments of critical reflection. This article questions the acclaim showered upon smallpox eradication as the singl...

Optic atrophy after small-pox.

VACCINIA virus is now regarded as " pantropic"; Murti and Shrivastav (1957), in their studies on the behaviour of variola virus and one strain of vaccinia virus, observed that the infection became generalized after inoculation on the skin of the rabbit with vaccinia virus, and that lesions of varying severity were seen in the lungs, heart, liver, and kidney, as well as the skin. It is only to b...

The Differential Diagnosis of Small-Pox and Chicken-Pox