Smallpox: alternatives and connections

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Smallpox

A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar.

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Pox 76% connected

Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken po…

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Pock 70% connected

A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.

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Variola 92% connected

The smallpox.

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