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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 397 of 653Miliaria. 4695. Hlllarla.Has/uMiliaria is mostly a secondary, symptomatic affection; as aprimary and more particularly as an epidemic disease it is a rareoccurrence among us. Symptomatic miliaria may break out duringthe course of all kinds of severe acute diseases.Primary, epidemic miliaria runs its course after the fashion ofall other acute exanthemata. The eruption is preceded for one tothree days by febrile symptoms characterized by the presence ofrheumatoid pains in the limbs, frequently shifting from one localto another; excessive perspiration, great anxiety and oppression,and finally by peculiar prickling, burning pains in the skin. Aftwainis small vesicles break out, first on the neck and subsequenton most other pans of the body ; they are of the size of milletseeds or lentils, are seated upon a red base, and at times are fiwith a clear, at other times with a dim fluid. — Miliaria rubra aalba. — These vesicles generally spread in clusters. — The violensymptoms of constitutional disturbance disappear with the breaking out of the vesicles which separate in bran-shaped scales withfive to seven days. Inasmuch as the same period of time is requirfor every new crop, the duration of the disorder may be protracteto a fortnight and longer. The usual termination is recovery, except in epidemic miliaria where the disease sometimes assumes amalignant type and frequently results fatally.Symptomatic miliaria is regarded by some as a symptom of thehighest import, whereas others view it as resulting from the actiof certain external influences, and not deserving any special atttion. We are decidedly inclined to share this opinion. Symptomatic miliaria generally attacks individuals who perspire a greatfrom excessive covering, as in the case of lying-in women, rheumauatients, likewise in cases of measles and scarlatina if mismanagin the old fashion, and in other febrile or even non-febrile affeExcept in acute rheumatism, we shall always find that miliaria iscaused by excessive external heat. This circumstance will easilyaccount for the symptoms preceding the eruption, such as restlessness, anxiety, dyspnoea, even delirium; the bad management stillrendered worse by the anxiety caused by the appearance of theexanthem, ex[>lains why miliaria may give the disease a bad tarn.That our explanation is founded, is evident from the fact thatmiliaria is scarcely ever seen in hospitals, but is a very commonoccurrence in private practice, and that it never breaks out on470 Diseases of the Skin.patients who are constantly kept in a mean temperature under amoderate amount of covering.In view of the frequently dangerous character of primary miliaria, medical treatment in all such cases is indispensable; the rhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt