Small Pox - Varioloid. 

 Varioloid, or modified small-pox, is a name used to indicate the
disease either as it occurs in those who have been previously
vaccinated, or as it occurs as the result of direct and intentional
inoculation from a patient suffering writh small-pox. Since, in these
latter days, the latter practice has been discontinued, the term
varioloid now designates small-pox as modified by previous
vaccination. It is, of course, essentially small-pox — presents the same
features, though in a less intense degree. It is rarely fatal, and
usually occasions the individual comparatively little indisposition.
The vesicles are usually few in^number, widely scattered; the fever
is slight, the chills and pains far less severe. Indeed, many a
patient with varioloid is astounded to learn from his physician that
he has small-pox. Yet, while the individual himself suffers so little
inconvenience, he is just as dangerous to others as the most
malignant case of small-pox; he should, therefore, observe the
same precautions for the protection of others as if he were himself
seriously ill. It is probable that much of the promiscuous dissemi­
nation of small-pox in our large cities is accomplished, in great
measure, by these cases of varioloid, since many such individuals
find it unnecessary to interrupt their usual avocations.

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