sure and speedy solution. For us, the interest of such investigation does not limit itself to small-pox alone, but must extend to the generality of infectious diseases. Can the infection of cholera, enteric fever, erysipelas, scarlatina, diphtheria, be conveyed by the air ? If any such facility of transportation should be established in respect of small-pox,it will become necessary to scrutinis...

The unfavorable treatment of people with physical disfigurements is well-documented, yet little is known about basic perceptual and cognitive responses to disfigurement. Here, we identify a specialized pattern of cognitive processing consistent with the hypothesis that disfigurements act as heuristic cues to contagious disease. Disfigurements are often invariant across time and difficult to con...

BACKGROUND Potyviruses are found world wide, are spread by probing aphids and cause considerable crop damage. Potyvirus is one of the two largest plant virus genera and contains about 15% of all named plant virus species. When and why did the potyviruses become so numerous? Here we answer the first question and discuss the other. METHODS AND FINDINGS We have inferred the phylogenies of the pa...

Poxvirus was isolated from nodules on four immature grackles (Quiscalus sp.) collected in two residential areas of Victoria, Texas. All of the birds were emaciated and had nodules on the eyelids, bill, legs, toes, and areas of the skin on the wings, neck, and ventral abdomen. These pox nodules were extensive and probably interfered with both sight and flight. The preliminary diagnosis was confi...

Rugby football players know that skin infections may be transmitted by bodily contact. Forwards in particular are likely to develop facial lesions from face-to-face contact in scrums. Players refer to the skin lesions by various names including "scrum-pox," "prop-pox," and "impetigo." Some of these infections are undoubtedly bacterial and there have been cases of herpes simplex-1 and vaccinia4 ...

The isolation of presumptive hybrids from the viruses of variola major and cowpox has already been described (Dumbell & Bedson, 1964). We report here the detailed characterization of the 16 clones of virus obtained. As with the alastrimrabbit pox hybrids considered in the previous paper (Bedson & Dumbell, 1964), attention has been paid to the behaviour of the ceiling temperature character in re...

In December, 1932, a disease presenting many of the characteristic features of small pox in man appeared in a colony of rabbits maintained for the study of problems of constitution and quickly assumed epidemic proportions with a high mortality in certain classes of animals. The nature of the disease and the origin of the outbreak were obscure, but the picture presented indicated that the diseas...

DESCRIPTION A 12-year-old African American woman presented to a plastic surgeon with a 1-year history of a slowly growing soft tissue mass behind her left ear. According to her, she had chicken pox and a residual pock mark behind that ear. As a result of irritation in that area from her glasses, she developed a cosmetically deforming keloid shown on the left. The keloid was subsequently excised...

Sir,?I was consulted in October 1926 by a Mahomedan boy, aged about 17 years, a faqir by profession, for painful swelling of both elbow joints. He gave the following history; that he had gone down with fever on the 10th September 1926 at Gujar Khan, a town in the north of the Punjab. This had developed into small-pox. The tenth day after the appearance of the eruption, pain and swelling set in ...

sons who have been previously vaccinated. It will be seen on reference to Table I, giving account of Dr. Brailey's cases, and which will be found appended to this paper, that of sixteen persons who had each lost an eye as the result of smallpox, seven were admittedly unvaccinated, or 43 per cent.; and the average age at which these contracted small-pox was 8.9 years ; while the average age of f...