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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 436 of 653times increases to one hundred rfnd forty beats. Sometimes theskin is dry, but at other times covered with perspiration. In verrare cases the constitutional equilibrium remains undisturbed eveduring the eruptive stage ; however, in every considerable epidema child with measles is occasionally seen running about the streeIf the exanthem runs a benign course, its decrease commencesat the end of the third day, seldom before tHis time, and continuwith great rapidity until the eruption has entirely disappeared.The spots grow smaller, assume a distinctly yellowish tint whichis especially marked on pressure with the finger, and within tweltwenty-four hours the spots have completed their disappearance wiout leaving a vestige of their existence. Very frequently, howevethe yellowish tint remains for several days. The fever declines vspeedily, the catarrh of the conjunctiva likewise abates, whereasthe bronchial catarrh most generally continues for a few dayslonger, and resolution sometimes does not take place until a considerable quantity of mucus has formed. Not unfrequently thepatient is at this period attacked with diarrhoea for one or twoProfuse perspiration is not the rule, but is not by any means ananomalous occurrence.Desquamation commonly commences on the seventh day, butmay delay until the fourteenth. The epidermis comes off in branshaped scales, very seldom in larger patches ; in the face and onextremities the desquamation is most distinct. Duripg this periodthe general health is generally good ; except that the bronchialcatarrh and still less frequently the diarrhoea may continue to sextent. In very few case^ the irritation of the conjunctiva likewise continues some time longer.According to the nature of the epidemic or other superveningdisturbances this normal course of the measles undergoes variousmodifications which we now proceed to point out, classifying themas benign, that is such as do not complicate the prognosis, and amalignant. We ought to observe, however, that under certainMorbilli, 617circumstances every anomaly in the course of the measles maybecome a bad omen, and that we have to watch every case wheredeviations from the normal course occur, with redoubled attentionAmong the anomalies of a benign character we class the followingThe eruption does not break out in the face first, or comes outsparsely on the rest of the body.The single spots are topped with little tubercles or vesicles.The exanthem comes out more slowly than usual, and the spotsremain much longer, sometimes beyond a week.In the case of little children the appearance of the exanthem isattended with symptoms of severe cerebral hypersemia or even convulsions.The cough retains its croupy sound beyond the first day or evenhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt