|spots. The eyes are not watery| |in a school, all |or congested. | |cases of sore | | |throat should be | | |sent home. -----------+------------------------------+------------+------------------- Diphtheria |Onset insidious, may be rapid | Breath and |Very dangerous |or gradual. Typically _sore | discharges |both during attack |throat_, great weakness, and | from nose, |and from after |swelling of glands in the | mouth, and |effects. When |neck, about the angle of the | ears. |diphtheria is |jaw. The back of the throat, | |occurring in a |tonsils, or palate may show | |school all children |_patches_ like pieces of | |suffering from sore |yellowish-white kid. The most | |throat should be |pronounced symptom is great | |excluded. There is |debility and lassitude, and | |great variation of |there may be little else | |type, and mild |noticeable. There may be | |cases are often not |hardly any symptoms at all. | |recognized but are | | |as infectious as | | |severe cases. There | | |is no immunity from | | |further attacks. | | |Fact of existence | | |of disease | | |sometimes | | |concealed. -----------+------------------------------+------------+------------------- Influenza |_Begins with feverishness, | Breath and |Excessively |pain in head, back_, and | discharges |infectious. After |_limbs_, and usually _cold in | from nose |effects often very |the head_. | and mouth. |serious and | | |accompanied with | | |great prostration | | |and nervous | | |debility. -----------+------------------------------+------------+-------------- Smallpox |The illness is usually well | Breath, |Peculiarly |marked and the onset rather | all |infectious. When |sudden, with _feverishness, | discharges,|smallpox occurs in |severe backache, and | and |connection with a |sickness_.