They looked down in rapture as meteor after meteor--drawn across the countless miles of space by the pulsating gravity fields, plunged into the Earth, leaving pocks visible to the naked moondweller's eye.
At last the mystery of the ages was solved: Who put the pocks in the face of the moon?
Pocks which at first were distinct would flux together during suppuration.
Bridport, was inoculated in 1743, and had fifty to sixty pocks which maturated and scabbed.
The pocks that ensue are for the most part distinct, few, and scattered; commonly ten or twenty break out; now and then the patient may have only two or three; few have a hundred.
The pocks are always much fewer than even in mild small-pox, sometimes even not more than twenty.
It shows itself in the form of small pimples, which in a few hours change into small circular pocks containing a little slightly turbid fluid.
It shall be my study to have more meal with you on Monday night, for you must distribute a peck a man; and, cost what it will, there must be pocks to each man, to contain a peck or two for the men to have always with them.
Buy linen, yarn, or anything; for these pocks are of absolute necessity--nothing can be done without them.
He came to them, found they were breaks in the surface, pocks caused by smaller bubbles.
As soon as the pocks appear, rubbing must be avoided till the scabs are entirely gone.
People generally take the Small-Pocks in their Infancy, or in their Childhood.
One of these is the Soreness of the Throat, with which many Persons in the Small-Pocks are afflicted, as soon as the Fever grows pretty strong.
The Small-Pocks is the most frequent, the most extensive of all Diseases; since out of a hundred Persons there are not more than [49] four or five exempted from it.
Small-Pocks by incompetent Judges, and sometimes even by Persons better qualified, yet who were less attentive to the Symptoms and Progress of the former.
If Country People will pursue these Directions, which are very easy to observe and to comprehend, whenever the Small-Pocks rages, I am persuaded it must lessen the Mortality attending it.
It happens now and then that the Small-Pocks and the Measles rage at the same Time, and in the same Place; though I have more frequently observed, that each of them was epidemical in different Years.
His Practica are taken almost entirely from the Arabian writers, as filtered through Gaddesden, one of them being the prevention of pitting by opening the pockswith a gold pin or needle.
The pocks in such cases are merely filled with blood instead of with pus or sero-pus.
In some of these instances the pocks appear in clusters of successive formation, looking not unlike patches of zoster.
These are the catarrhal pocks of Rindfleisch, and it is in such cases, if in any, that no scar (even of temporary duration) results.
Over and over again the writer has seen perfect vaccine pocks on persons whom he knew to be syphilitic.
Small supplementary pocks in the immediate neighborhood of the original lesion are not at all uncommon.
In variola siliquosa the pocks are said to contain air only; in v.
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