#various virus

[lepromatosis]

Smallpox isolation tents on Porter’s Island in Ottawa, Canada. Previous to the smallpox hospital opening there in 1913 (see earlier post), patients were kept in these crude conditions, the notoriety of which discouraged many from being taken there willfully.

[lepromatosis]

“Early pustules on the leg and foot in a case of unmodified smallpox.” from The Diagnosis of Smallpox, 1908