SCARLET FEVER. Synonyms.—Scarlatina; Scarlet Rash. Definition ...

great nervous irritation.
For the myalgia, macrotys, rhamnus Californica, and bryonia will be
used, and for the lymphatic involvement phytolacca will be the remedy.
Jaborandi may be useful during the active stage of the fever.
Of course, quinia will be used if the patient resides in a malarial section
and if periodicity exists.
THE PLAGUE.
Synonyms.—Bubonic Plague; Pestilence, or Pest; Black Death; Plague
of Egypt.
Definition.—A specific, infectious, and contagious disease of peculiar
intensity, rapidly running its course, and characterized by inflammation
of the glands (buboes), carbuncles, ecchymoses, and petechise upon the
surface. It is endemic on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea and
the Oriental countries adjacent. Epidemics occur when it spreads to
other parts of the world, traveling along the great thoroughfares of
travel and commerce.
History.—The plague is a very old disease, and probably epidemics
raged and devastated peoples centuries before we had any authentic
accounts. Sacred and profane histories speak of pestilences which
ravaged the Valley of the Nile and the Plain of Philistia. Greece was
severely visited, and Athens lost nearly a third of her population four
hundred years B. C. Many believe that these “visitations” were none
other than the plague.
The earliest positive knowledge that we have of the disease dates from
the epidemic which occurred in the sixth century, beginning in Egypt in
542, and extending to Palestine, Syria, and Persia; passing thence into
Asia Minor, then on into Europe, carrying off, at Constantinople, ten
thousand victims in one day (543 A. D.). Becoming pandemic, it spread
in every direction. It is estimated that fifty per cent of the inhabitants of
the Eastern Hemisphere died, either directly or indirectly, from this
great epidemic before the close of the sixth century.
The next great epidemic was the irresistible march of the “Black Death”
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