“A case of moderate severity, with well-developed vesicles and characteristic grouping of lesions upon the face.”
A Practical Treatise on Smallpox by George Henry Fox, 1903
“Fig. 3 shows severe pitting, a partial loss of hair and eyebrows, and destruction of one eye.”
Healing after smallpox was a slow process. Victims were often unrecognizable to those who knew them before the illness.