The Dreaming Demon Sparknotes

The next section, “The Dreaming Demon”, contains a character named Peter Los who contracted smallpox on his road trip from India and is still alive today but with significant damage to his skin, organs and has gone into hiding. He was taken to the largest hospital in the town of Meschede called St. Walberga Krankenhaus, which is staffed by nuns from St. Mary’s. Peter was placed into an isolation ward inside the hospital, which had its very own floor partially detached from the hospital to lessen the chance of his sickness infecting others. The nurses did not know he had smallpox, they assumed he just contracted a sickness from traveling to different countries. Peter was a smoker and brought his cigarettes with him into the hospital and would crack open a window without the nurse’s knowledge and smoke. Preston went into detail about what this character experienced during his episode of smallpox which was visual and terrifying. Peter had oozing sores from his mouth then his body started to develop spots with oozing pus and blood and then the nurses went into panic mode realizing he had
Scientists refer to this melt as the virus melt which will then infect others who come into contact with the corpse, whether it’s by ingesting it or being around the corpse.” (Preston pg. 52). Pox infects animals different depending on their own characteristics, which begs an interesting question, if smallpox was modified would it infect humans differently? Preston never addresses this though but all things considered, a modified version of smallpox would be deadly no matter who contracts