SMALL-POX

n. Sma4rpo3x. Lat., variola. Fr., petite verole, variole. Ger., Slattern, Pocken, Menschenpocken. It.. vajuolo. Sp., viruelas. An infectious, contagious, acute febrile disease chiefly characterized by a pustular exanthem upon the skin. In most cases the eruption begins about the fourth day of the fever in the form of papules that turn first into vesicles and then into pustules, attended with phlegmonous inflammation, which are succeeded by crusts and finally by more or le marked cicatrices or pits (variola pustulosa). In other cases the exanthem does not become pustular, but is characterized by intense erythematous congestion and haemorrhages (variola malign a). [G.] Abortive s.-p. S.-p. in which there are comparatively few pustules, the general eruption scarcely pa ing beyond the stage of vesicles. [D, I.] Bastard s.-p. See VARICELLA (1st def.). Black s.-p., Blood s.-p., Bloody s.-p. See VARIOLA hcemorrhagica and VARIOLA malign a. Choleric s.-p. Of Avicenna, measles. [B, 117.] Coherent s.-p. See VARIOLA cohcerens. Confluent s.-p. See VARIOLA confluens. Corymbose s.-p. See VARIOLA corymbosa. Crystalline s.-p. 1. See VARICELLA. 2. See VARIOLA lymphatic a and cf. VARIOLA verrucosa. Discrete s.-p., Distinct s.-p. See VARIOLA discreta. False s.-p. See VARICELLA. Gangrenous s.-p. S.-p. in which the vesicles fill with an ichorons matter, and gangrene of the skin occurs. [D, 1.] Haemorrhagic s.-p. See VARIOLA hcemorrhagica. Horn s.-p. See VARIOLA cornea. Ichorous s.-p. See VARICELLA. Inoculated s.-p. S.-p. resulting from intentional inoculation. [D, 1.] Lymphatic s.-p. See VARICELLA lentiform is and VARIOLA lymphatic a. Malignant s.-p. See VARIOLA malign a. Modified s.-p. See VARIOLOID. Natural s.-p. S.-p. occurring casually (not from intentional inoculation) in an unvaccinated person. Ovine s.-p. See SHEEP-POX. Pearl s.-p. See VARIOLA lymphatic a Petechial s.-p. See VARIOLA petechial is. Scorbutic s.-p. See VARIOLA hcemorrhagica. Semi-confluent s.-p. See VARIOLA semi con flu ens. Serous s.-p. See VARICELLA and VARIOLA lymphatic a. Spurious s.-p. See VARICELLA and Abortive s.-p. Varicelloid s.-p. See Abortive s.-p. Verrucose s.-p. See VARIOLA verrucosa. [s. 491]