Smallpox
an eruptive febrile disease, which happily is not now nearly so prevalent as it once was. According to some Arabic historians, it came first from Ethiopia into Arabia about A. D. 572. The wars which were carried on in the East, and particularly the Crusades in the 12th and 13th centuries, introduced it into Europe, first into Spain and France, and then into other countries. This disease commonly commences with the usual febrile symptoms; as rigors, pain in the and 13th centuries, introduced it into Europe, first into Spain and France, and then into other countries. This disease commonly commences with the usual fethe skin, a hard and frequent pulse, loss of appetite, pain in the epigastrium, with brile symptoms; as rigors, pain in the back and loins, great prostration of strength, followed by heat and dryness of third day an eruption of small, hard, redcolored pimples makes its appearance about the face and neck, and gradually extends over the trunk and extremities. third day an eruption of small, hard, reds more.
SMELTING on these last, falling off in four or five When the pustules are nutules, which, on the eighth day, generally begin to break, and crusts or scabs form irregular outline; when fewer they are days distinct and of a regularly circumscribed merous they run together and form an circular form. The former is technically never dangerous. SMART, CHRISTOPHER, an English never dangerous. variola discreta; the former being never free from danger, the latter seldom or