It’s an infectious disease caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minoruniue to human. It localizes in small blood vessels of the skin and in the mouth and throat. In the skin, this results in a characteristic maculopapular rash, and later, raised fluid-filled blisters. Smallpox spreads very easily from person to person.
Symptoms are flu-like and include high fever, fatigue and headache and backache, followed by a rash with flat red sores. Variola major produces a more serious disease and has an overall mortality rate of 30–35%. Variola minor causes a milder form of disease also known as alastrim, cottonpox, milkpox, whitepox, and Cuban itch which kills ~1% of its victims.
Smallpox:
Remedies & Symptoms:
ACONITE:
- First stage and early part of second stage; high fever, especially if there be to the head or lungs.
- Headache bleeding at the nose & injected eyes.
- Great restlessness.
ANTIM TART:
- Eruption does not come out properly or has been repelled.
- Especially indicated in the beginning when the teasing coughs as, in putrid variola with typhoid pneumonia and tendency to paralysis of lungs.
- Vomiting of viscid mucous, clogging air passages great difficulty of breathing .
RHUS TOX:
- Confluent smallpox with great swelling at first but after wards the eruption shrinks and becomes livid, blood in pustules, bloody stools.
- The diseases has assumed as typhoid character tongue dry and cracked with red tip, corner of the mouth sore and ulcerated restlessness.
VARIOLINUM
- Especially where the disease throws itself with full force on throat.
- Given steadily during the disease it will run a milder course , changing imperfect pustules into regular ones, which soon dry up it promotes suppuration and desiccation and prevents pitting.
BELLADONA
- During first stage, high fiver with cerebral congestion.
- Dysuria and tenesmus of bladder, sleeplessness, with desire to sleep.
- Delirium and convulsions, ophthalmia photophobia.
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