It presents as an area of angry erythema often associated with white pustules.
Some cases had pustules in more than one site, so the figures above totaled more than 24.
Several hours later, the development of pustules accompanied by oedema was observed.
It classically affects the -exures with small sterile pustules on an erythematous base and then spreads to involve the umbilicus and trunk, often with systemic upset.
If a physician mistook a syphilitic chancre for a smallpox pustule, he might extract material that, when injected into a patient, would infect him with the deadly venereal disease.
It is as useless as applying face powder to the pustules in a case of smallpox.
It distorts the face, not merely with pustules, but with all that horrible vacancy which comes from the deterioration of the brain.
There is a small barbel near the corner of the mouth, and small pustules on the throat.
