An effectual and simple remedy for scarlet fever and measles : with an appendix of cases / by Charles Witt.

  • Witt, Charles
Date:
1862
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Credit: An effectual and simple remedy for scarlet fever and measles : with an appendix of cases / by Charles Witt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cutaneous Diseases* to which scarlatina does not properly belong. This may be one reason why it failed to attract that degree of attention which it deserved. But another, and certainly a powerful, cause ope- rated against the recognition and adoption of this practice; it ivas new, and had never been a part of the doctrine of the schools. Scarlatina was then treated as a purely inflammatory disorder; and the proposal to administer what was thought to be an irritant in a fever, was looked upon as a heresy; for which the medical mind of the day was unprepared. The same views, unfortunately, are yet too generally prevalent; and inasmuch as many experienced mem- bers of the profession unhesitatingly admit their entire want of confidence in the ordinary modes of treatment, there is clearly a reason wny one, con- fessedly of great practical value, should receive a more general consideration. The author's medical friends, to whom this practice was before unknown, and to whom it has been fully explained, have shown the greatest readiness to afford it a fair trial; and without a single exception, they have all uniformly since expressed their conviction of its surprising efficacy. That this subject may be laid fully before the reader, the following remarks, relating exclusively to Scarlet Fever and Measles, are extracted from Mr. Wilkinson's book, now long out of print. He says: In the year 1803, I attended several cases of the scarlatina maligna, with Dr. Willan and the late Dr. * Remarks on Cutaneous Diseases, by J. H. Wilkinson, London; printed for John and Arthur Arch, Cornhill. 1822.
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