When the patient is easier, the treatment may be given as in the milder form of scarlatina anginosa, with due regard to the state of the throat.
In scarlatina the symptoms of fever and the affection of the mucous membranes continue two days after the eruption has begun to make its appearance; in measles the eruption diminishes those symptoms at once.
The contagion of scarlatina is very active, and adheres for a long time to the sick-room, bedding, clothes and furniture.
There is no such remedy in the apothecary's shop, and there is no physician who would expose his own children to the contagion of scarlatina from the confidence he has in the curative or protective powers of any drug.
Of the different forms of scarlatina maligna the most dangerous is the sudden invasion of the nervous system, particularly the brain, the cerebellum and the spine, by which the patient's life is sometimes extinguished in a few hours.
Treatment of the violent, or sthenic Form of scarlatina anginosa 50 67.
I have had patients under treatment for chronic diseases, who had had scarlatina several years before, and neither this nor the water-cure protected them from taking it again.
He can catch the scarlatina in any case and it is not even certain that he will catch it.
And scarlatina is not like a pain in your stomach, when you have eaten too many pears, or like a cold, when you have forgotten to put on your jacket.
Scarlet fever or scarlatina has received its name from the color of its eruption.
Some diseases bring this particular diathesis about, such as scurvy, also measles, scarlatina or smallpox.
This has formed the basis of dividing scarlatinainto three varieties, namely: simple scarlatina, diphtheritic scarlatina and malignant scarlatina.
Simple scarlatina requires no medical treatment; the precaution and intelligence which are comprised in good nursing supply everything that is required.
The diphtheritic scarlatina is treated precisely similar to and according to the instructions laid down for diphtheria in another part of this work.
There is not the same danger of the eruption striking in with scarlatina as there is with measles, and the patient need not be kept so warmly covered.
The tongue is coated with a thick white or yellowish coating, through which project numerous bright red points, papillæ as they are called, and this appearance of the tongue is as distinctive of scarlatina as the rash itself.
Inasmuch as scarlatina often proves fatal to grown persons who have not already had the disease, to obtain at once the attendance of a skilled nurse, in order to avoid the risk of the disease spreading through the household.
The symptoms of scarlatina usually appear within three days after exposure to its contagion, and there is very good authority for believing that the interval never exceeds six days.
The disease is contagious, as scarlatina is contagious, though not to the same degree.
She was exposed to the contagion of the scarlatina at the same time, and sickened almost at the same hour.
That these were actually cases of scarlatina was rendered certain by two servants in the family falling ill at the same time with the distemper, who had been exposed to the infection with the young ladies.
The day following a rash was perceptible on her face and neck, so much resembling the efflorescence of the scarlatina anginosa that I was induced to ask whether Miss R--had been exposed to the contagion of that disease.
Which is owing to the deficiency of the sensorial power of irritation joined with the increase of that of sensation, and thus constitutes the sensitive inirritated fever; as in Scarlatina with gangrenous tonsils.
But even without a preceding infectious fever, such as scarlatina or more frequently typhoid fever, there are unexplained cases of rachitis and deformity.
But they do not have measles or scarlatina because they are scrofulous, and we can with no more justice say that they have catarrhs or other inflammations because they are so.
In measles it is more frequently the former; in scarlatina and variola it comes later as a complication.
Measles and scarlatina are very commonly arousers of the scrofulous process, not only by the temporary impairment of health which follows them, but also through the catarrhs which are usually present in both diseases.
The pharyngitis of scarlatina develops a day or two prior to the cutaneous eruption, the mucous membrane of the palate, tonsils, and pharynx being deeply congested, uniformly or in patches, with slight papulous elevations here and there.
Scarlatina is essentially a disease of the lymphatic system.
The hyperaemic membrane pales after death, as does the skin in scarlatina and erysipelas.
By these means, nine out of every ten cases of scarlatina may be safely and expeditiously cured, especially if the temperature of the patient's room is kept at an even standard of about sixty degrees.
Thanks to the curative powers of Apis, scarlatina has ceased to be a scourge to childhood.
It is {182} very contagious and has symptoms which belong to the class of disease in which are scarlatina and measles.
The surgeons now perceived that an epidemic of the so-called surgical scarlatinawas occurring, so as to justify the postponement of other operations.
The stage of invasion in scarlatinais but twenty-four hours; in measles, seventy-two.
In the section on diagnosis the differential points between rötheln, measles, and scarlatina will be considered; therefore in this place it will only be necessary to call attention to certain general facts.
The terms scarlet fever and scarlatina are used synonymously to designate one of the most common and fatal of the eruptive fevers.
Only in the hospital cases, complicated by erysipelas andscarlatina convalescence, may grave results be anticipated.
These relapses, which may occur in from two to four weeks after the original invasion, are analogous to the similar occurrences in scarlatina and typhoid fever.
The treatment of scarlatina by antiseptic remedies will be considered hereafter.
Maugin calls attention to the fact that, when present in diphtheria, it occurs early, whereas in scarlatina it is seen during the period of desquamation, and is not of frequent occurrence even then.
They are indeed one and the same disease, scarlatina being the Latin for scarlet fever.
What is the difference between Scarlatinaand Scarlet Fever?
There is an excellent method of determining, for a certainty, whether the eruption be that of scarlatina or otherwise.
This takes place in scarlatinaand other eruptive diseases, which Dr.
And they say you have scarlatinaall about you here, now; bad complaint, you know, that kills the little children.
I've no fancy for scarlatina or small-pox, or any sort or description of your nursery maladies.
The appearance of the eruption on the second day of scarlatina is followed by a marked defervescence, while the scarlet rash of smallpox is not accompanied by any change in the temperature curve.
The contamination of the milk which produces scarlatina in those who use it is neither more nor less specific than that.
There are two special forms of epidemic scarlatina which may prove to be finger-post instances for the general pathology.
Cursory Remarks on the Appearance of the Angina Scarlatinain the Spring of 1793.
It is perhaps the same juxtaposition, or intermixture of scarlatina anginosa and diphtheria, that we find in the north of Scotland about the same time of the 18th century.
How many other diseases, such as scarlatina and diphtheria, which now carry off annually thousands of children, may not ere long be extinguished by like means who shall say?
The same moral and related conditions that obtain in scarlatinaare found in measles.
Scarlatina (Italian scarlattina, Low Latin febris scarlatina), or Scarlet Fever, is very rare in pregnancy.
Popularly, scarlatinais used for a light form of scarlet fever, as varioloid is used for a light attack of smallpox; but physicians do not make this distinction between scarlatina and scarlet fever: they use the terms synonymously.
In the early months of gestation scarlatina commonly causes abortion.
The mortality in the scarlatina of pregnancy may be very high--52 per cent.
But scarlatina and diphtheria were stalking the plains.
Pneumonia, diphtheria, scarlatina and measles--all these were among the more obvious possibilities.
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