Chicken pox

Chicken-pox is an infectious disease resembling small-pox, but apparently not allied to it. The symptoms appear about thirteen days after exposure to infection, and begin with mild fever, followed in a day by the appearance of vesicles or blisters. They are distinguished from small-pox vesicles by not having a hard circle of inflammation round them, or a depression in the centre of them. In the course of a day or two the vesicles become pustules, on the fourth day dry up, and by the sixth day complete scabs are formed.

When these fall off they may leave a few pits. Sometimes several crops of vesicles appear in succession, and then the disease lasts longer.

General Treatment.–This disease is usually of such a mild character that very little in the way of treatment is needed. If there is considerable fever the patient should be kept in bed and on fever diet until it subsides.

Medicines.–(Every two hours.)

Antimonium tart. 6.–

In the early stage.

Mercurius 6.–

When matter appears in the vesicles.

John Henry Clarke

John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica