One thousand medical maxims and surgical hints / by Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davies.
- N. E. Yorke Davis
- Date:
- 1883
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: One thousand medical maxims and surgical hints / by Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davies. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![102.] 94. Whooping-cough is fatal to about 15,000 children yearly in England, and diphtheria to 6,000. 95. Whooping-cough is infectious, and depends on some peculiar poison communicated through the atmosphere, which affects and irritates one par- ticular part of the nervous system. 96. The best remedy for whooping-cough is change of air to the seaside. 97. Where diphtheria is suspected, the early symptoms are like those of an ordinary sore throat, and no time should he lost in seeking skilled ad- vice. It is an infectious disease. 98. Typhus fever is the most dangerous and most uncommon fever in England; its poison being the most deadly of all. It is bred in ill-ventilated places. It incubates from one to fourteen days. The eruption appears on the fifth da}r of the fever, and fades on the fourteenth : it is a mulberry rash. 99. The contagious fevers are: typhus, scarlet fever, small-pox, measles, German measles, and chicken-pox. 100. Typhoid fever—not to be confused with typhus fever—is not considered catching from one person to another. It arises from drinking water contaminated with sewage, containing the germs of the disease. Great care should, therefore, be taken to destroy by disinfection the discharges from typhoid cases. 101. Milk which has been diluted with water contaminated by typhoid-poison penetrating into pumps, has been the cause of the most disastrous epidemics of this disease. 102. The room of a fever-patient should be kept](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24874577_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
