ally break down and ulcerate. It is
accompanied by constitutional symptoms of variable severity.

Hygienic measures, good food, tonics, and antiseptic and stimulating
applications are curative.

#Verruga Peruana.#
(_Synonyms:_ Peruvian Warts; Carrion's Disease; Oroya Fever.)

#Describe verruga peruana.#

A specific inoculable affection endemic in some valleys of the Western
Andes, in Peru, and characterized by a prodromal febrile period and
subsequent outbreak of peculiar pin-head- to pea-sized, or larger,
bright reddish, rounded, wart-like elevations. The prodromal symptoms,
of an irregular malarial or typhoid type, with associated rheumatic and
muscular pains, may last for weeks or several months, usually abating
when eruption presents. The lesions may be crowded together in great
bunches. The face and limbs are favorite localities. The disease is
inoculable and thought to be due to a bacillus.

The fatality varies between 10 and 20 per cent. Tonics and stimulants
are prescribed.

#Equinia.#
(_Synonyms:_ Farcy; Glanders.)

#What is equinia, or glanders?#

A rare contagious specific disease of a malignant type, derived from the
horse, and characterized by grave constitutional symptoms, inflammation
of the nasal and respiratory passages, and a deep-seated
papulo-pustular, or tubercular, nodular (_farcy buds_), ulcerative
eruption. A fatal issue is not uncommon. It is due to a micro-organism.

Treatment, both local and constitutional, is based upon general
principles.

#Miliaria.#
(_Synonyms:_ Prickly Heat; Heat Rash; Lichen Tropicus; Red Gum;
Strophulus.)

#What do you understand by miliaria?#

An acute mildly inflammatory disorder of the sweat-glands, characterized
by the appearance of minute, discrete but closely crowded papules,
vesico-papules, and vesicles.

#Describe the symptoms of miliaria.#

The eruption, consisting of pin-point to millet-seed-sized papules,
vesico-papules, vesicles, or a mixture of these lesions, discrete but
usually numerous and closely crowded, appears suddenly, occurring upon a
limited portion of the surface, or, as commonly observed, involving a
greater part or the whole integument. The trunk is a favorite locality.
The papular lesions are pinkish or reddish, and the vesicles whitish or
yellowish, surrounded by