On scarlatina, in a letter addressed to his son / by William Ingalls.

  • William Ingalls
Date:
1839
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Credit: On scarlatina, in a letter addressed to his son / by William Ingalls. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LETTER. To WILLIAM INGALLS, Jr., M.D. Princeton, Dec. 19, 1836. My Dear Doctor, It may not be unacceptable to you to receive a narrative of three cases of Scarlatina,* which have recently occurred in our family. Alice, John, and a child of one of our domestics, were attacked on three successive Thursdays. Your affectionate father, WILLIAM INGALLS. ANGINA SINE EFFLORESCENTIA.f Your sister Alice, aged eight years, was seized in the morn- ing, October 27th, 1836. The disease was ushered in by cephalalgia ; anorexia ; soreness of the throat; diarrhoea ; nausea ; great prostration of strength ; fever. The relax and nausea continuing through the greater part of the day, in the evening an emetic [R. vini ipecacuanhas, § ss.] was adminis- tered, which had the effect of evacuating the digestive canal thoroughly ; the medicine continuing to operate during the night. October 28th. Cephalalgia, nausea and diarrhoea had ceased; deglutition painful ; [on inspection an erythematic blush was conspicuous on the right and posterior part of the roof of the mouth, extending over the region of the tonsil of the same side;] * See Appendix. Note A. t Note C.