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After the usual incubative period this child sickened with a fatal form of the malady, and the remaining children of the household were in time affected.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Ordinarily, therefore, the incubative period, though varying in different cases, is within six days.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

After about the usual incubative period of scarlet fever he sickened with the disease.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

The latter terminated, the period of invasion follows, and extends from the conclusion of the incubative stage to the moment when the first cutaneous lesions of variola appear upon the surface.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

That the so-called incubative period is very definite and regular, being just a fortnight from infection to eruption.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 by Various