TURPENTINE AS AN EXTERNAL APPLICATION IN SMALL-POX.

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...

Arthritis as a Complication of 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 ...

On an Indian Remedy for Small-Pox

Eakly in the last winter a small coasting vessel landed a portion of her crew at an extreme sea-board village, a few miles from Halifax. The persons landed were sick of small-pox, and the disease soon spread, first amongst the cottagers with whom the fishermen mixed, and subsequently amongst those from the capital who resorted to the village for the purposes of trade. Through the early weeks of...

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 ...