Black Pox

Black pox is a symptomof smallpoxthat is caused by bleedingunder the skinwhich makes the skin look charredor black. This symptom usually indicates that a patientwith smallpox is going to die.

A doctorwho encoutered black pox stated that "Doctors separate black pox into two forms — flat smallpoxand hemorrhagicsmallpox. In a case of flat smallpox, the skin remains smooth and doesn't pustulate, but it darkens until it looks charred, and it can slip off the body in sheets. In hemorrhagic smallpox, black, unclottedbloodoozes or runs from the mouth and other body orifices. Black pox is close to a hundred percent fatal. If any sign of it appears in the body, the victim will almost certainly die. In the bloody cases, the virusdestroys the linings of the throat, the stomach, the intestines, the rectum, and the vagina, and these membranesdisintegrate. Fatal smallpox can destroy the body's entire skin— both the exterior skin and the interior skin that lines the passages of the body."

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