pots or uniform blush; no
| | | characteristic groupings.
| | | |Slight sore throat; sometimes slight running
| | | | of eyes and nose.
| | | | |3 to 4 days.
| | | | | |3 weeks.
Chicken-pox.
|13 to 17 days.
| |1st day.
| | |Pea-sized, scattered vesicles.
| | | |None; or slight fever.
| | | | |A week or less.
| | | | | |3 to 4 weeks.
Varioloid (Variola).
|7 to 12 days.
| |3d day (may be 1st or 2d).
| | |Red, elevated papules; then vesicles; then often
| | | pustules.
| | | |Headache; backache; vomiting.
| | | | |About 14 days.
| | | | | |4 to 8 weeks.
Vaccinia (Vaccination).
|1 to 3 days.
| |1st day (3d after vaccination).
| | |A red papule, becoming a vesicle and then a pustule;
| | | surrounded by a broad red area.
| | | |Often feverishness and malaise.
| | | | |About 3 weeks.
| | | | | |None.
Erysipelas.
|3 to 7 days.
| |1st or 2d day.
| | |Bright-red blush; puffy skin; often vesicles.
| | | |Fever; pain.
| | | | |4 to 6 days, or several weeks if it
| | | | | spreads.
| | | | | |Averages 2 weeks.
Diphtheria.
|2 to 12 days.
| |1st or 2d day.
| | |White membrane on tonsils and other parts of throat.
| | | |Debility; fever.
| | | | |10 to 14 days.
| | | | | |3 to 4 weeks.
Whooping-cough.
|2 to 7 days.
| |7th to 14th day.
| | |A prolonged paroxysm of coughing followed by a
| | | crowing inspiration (whoop).
| | | |Vomiting; spitting of blood.
| | | | |6 to 8 weeks.
| | | | | |6 to 8 weeks (while whoop lasts).
Mumps.
|7 to 21 days.
| |1st day.
| | |Swelling in front, below, and behind the ear and
| | | below the jaw.
| | | |Pain when chewing.