Hydriatic treatment of scarlet fever in its different forms, or how to save, through a systematic application of the water-cure, many thousands of lives and healths, which now annually perish : being the result of twenty-one years' experience, and of the treatment and cure of several hundred cases of eruptive fevers / by Charles Munde.

  • Munde, Carl.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Hydriatic treatment of scarlet fever in its different forms, or how to save, through a systematic application of the water-cure, many thousands of lives and healths, which now annually perish : being the result of twenty-one years' experience, and of the treatment and cure of several hundred cases of eruptive fevers / by Charles Munde. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DESCRIPTION OF SCARLET-FEVER. I. SCARLET-FEVER, OR SCARLATINA,* is an eruptive fever, produced by a peculiar contagious poison, and distinguished by extreme heat, a rapid pulse, a severe affection of the mucous membranes, especially those of the mouth and throat, and by a burning scarlet eruption on the skin. 2. DIVISION OF THE PROCESS OF THE DISEASE INTO PERIODS. Its course is commonly divided into four distinct pe- riods, viz.: the period of incubation, the period of erup- tion, the period of efflorescence, and the period of des- quamation ; to which may be added: the period of con- valescence. 3. PERIOD OF INCUBATION, OR HATCHING. The time which passes between the reception of the contagious poison into the system and the appearance of the rash, is called the period of incubation; incubation or incubus meaning, properly, the sitting of birds on their nests, and figuratively, the hatching or concoction of the poison within the body, until prepared for its elimina- tion. There is no certainty about the time necessary for that purpose, as the contagion, after the patient has come * The expression scarlatina does not imply, as it is believed by many, on account of its diminutive form, a peculiar mild form of the disease: it is nothing but the Latin and scientific name for scarlet-fever.