Purulent Arthritis Complicating Smallpox
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The following five cases are des sUfficient fought that textbooks do not dwell in ^ & detail upon this deforming comp 1 cQ^ disease so common in India. T ley ndemic lected from a district where smallpox 1 ar*d vaccination is not a common pi a ^ Case 1.?Aet. 9 years. Discrete modified ^^0 ?ne month previously, pox PreR?"'.,. otboth treatment. Destructive purulent a?1? pain and acromio-clavicular joints with continued f ^ werc swelling. Treated by incision ,mt? 3?V\' Secondary roded, glove drain?healed m -9 t-;. part of ^cesses formed after one week on *^ell?nder the tibia and vertebral border of scapu, three Periosteum, treated by incision with healin0 ^ 5Q0 ^eeks. Bi-weekly mercurochrome 10 c.cm. 0 lnRavenously to control pyaemia. ,-fi d gmallpox Case 2.?Aet 8 years. Discrete moamea botb months ago, followed by fever and swelllmg^ with elbow joints. One joint incised by a loca nt m
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