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

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etter purpose than the old, though crude, bacon-rind. In scarlatina anginosa greater skill will be required. For the high grade of fever, to assist the sedative aconite or veratrum, the patient should be sponged frequently with warm soda-water. If the stomach will retain jaborandi, this agent will be found useful, one or two drachms to four ounces of water; teaspoonful every hour. The throat affection is here the most prominent lesion. Cloths wrung out of hot water and vinegar and applied to the throat, over which a dry flannel should be placed, will be found of much benefit. The patient may also inhale the steam from vinegar and hops, which will give relief to the dryness of the throat. Internally phytolacca and echinacea will be given. A gargle of potassium chlorate and hydrastis will also give relief, or a spray or gargle of echinacea may take the place of the potash. Where there is nausea and vomiting, with the characteristic strawberry tongue, or wmere the patient is restless-and unable to sleep, rhus tox. will be found the best agent. Hydrochlorate of ammonia, in from one to three grain doses, is highly recommended by many, though I have never used it, and can not speak from experience. In the malignant form of the disease, sepsis is the condition to overcome, and antiseptics will be especially indicated. For the dirty, moist, pasty tongue, a saturated solution of sodium sulphite, both internally and as a gargle, will be our best agent. If there be a foul breath, a cadaveric odor, I know of nothing that will equal potassium chlorate and hydrastis. Where the tissues are infiltrated and dusky, echinacea given internally, used as a spray, and applied to the neck, will give good results. Baptisia may be combined with the latter agent, as the action is similar. Where there is marked dullness, the surface dusky, and the eruption retarded, the old-time emetic of capsicum and lobelia will prove of great value. Where there is enlargement of the lymphatics, phytolacca, twenty to sixty drops to a half glass of water, will be the indicated remedy. Where the face becomes puffy and edematous, apocynum, ten to twenty drops in a half glass of water and a teaspoonful every hour, will give great satisfaction. The nourishment must be fluid in character, milk being the best food when it can be taken. Great care must be taken during convalescence, the quantity of urine noted, and occasionally examined for albumin. The Eclectic Practice of Medicine - PART I - Infectious Diseases - Page 134
There are so many unpleasant sequelae following scarlet fever that the physician can hardly be too careful during this period. <strong>Synonyms</strong>.—Moribilli; Rubeoli. MEASLES. <strong>Definition</strong>.—An acute, infectious, and contagious fever, characterized by a general papular eruption, usually appearing the fourth day, and preceded by a catarrh of the mucous membranes of the bronchi, larynx, nose, and eyes. Etiology.—The infectious material, whatever it may be, is found in the blood, in the secretions of the mucous membranes, and in the epidermic scales which are cast off. It is exceedingly volatile, and the presence of the unprotected in the near neighborhood is sufficient for the contraction of the disease. When once it enters the home, it usually infects all children who have not previously suffered from an attack. Unlike scarlet fever, the older the patient, the more severe the disease. It usually occurs in epidemic form, though sporadic cases may occur. In The Eclectic Practice of Medicine - PART I - Infectious Diseases - Page 135
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Page 9: the epidemic, the previous health a
Page 13 and 14: a constant factor, and is hoarse or
Page 15 and 16: eruption appearing without the cust
Page 17 and 18: eneficial, not only in relieving th
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Page 21 and 22: other gland being at all affected,
Page 23 and 24: an inflammation of the larynx would
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Page 27 and 28: DIPHTHERIA. Synonyms. — Diphtheri
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Page 31 and 32: Unhygienic Conditions.—Poor sanit
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Page 35 and 36: first case.” Malignant Diphtheria
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Page 43 and 44: certain conditions, rather than in
Page 45 and 46: Predisposing causes are, poor hygie
Page 47 and 48: complains of burning and smarting,
Page 49 and 50: disease. The membrane disappears, t
Page 51 and 52: the gonococcus, the bacillus coli c
Page 53 and 54: The course of the disease is marked
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Page 57 and 58: followed by tuberculosis. They furn
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Pulmonary Form.—The general sympt
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face. Optic neuritis, together with
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Local Tubercular Adenitis.—Cervic
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color, or clear, with more or less
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symptoms, together with the persist
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character, night-sweats occur, emac
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Laryngitis.—At other times it beg
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alarming condition early in the dis
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Gastro-Intestinal Disturbance.—Th
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onchitis, and crepitant and subcrep
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with little or no fever, the diseas
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viscera, the diagnosis is extremely
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Tuberculosis of the Kidney.—Tuber
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opposite to those above mentioned.
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This is not always easy to determin
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1/60 grain doses may also be given
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is responsible, not only for diphth
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and vary in size from that of a mil
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and leave behind a cicatrix, a cons
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jaundice is sometimes observed, and
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present, inquire as to pruritis, if
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described by Benjamin Rush. From 18
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great nervous irritation. For the m
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Exciting Cause.—To Kitasato belon
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Treatment.—The treatment heretofo
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The specific cause, the bacillus le
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death, the leper's friend, comes to
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hours, small nodules develop, which
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proliferated connective tissue-cell
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survive for some minutes at a tempe
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same as wool-sorter's disease, and
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From two weeks to three months is t
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this purpose. The patient should be
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e a rupture of the muscles. Any sli
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF DOUBTFUL NAT
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disease. “Synochal and Synochoid
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“The condition of the nervous sys
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“With Predominant Affection of th
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high, and the tendency is to typhoi
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