VARIOLINUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- only fragmentary provings
- bears the same relation to smallpox that antitoxin does to diphtheria
- curative value in variola - simple, confluent and malignant - as well as in varioloid and varicella
- preventive of, or protection against, smallpox
- far superior to crude vaccination and absolutely safe from the sequenae, especially septic and tubercular infection