Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms
Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms
Free DownloadHow 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.
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s, and finally disappears altogether.--Sometimes the rash fades or disappears too early, in which cases, usually, the internal symptoms increase, the brain and spine become affected, and the situation of the patient becomes critical.
6. PERIOD OF DESQUAMATION, OR PEELING-OFF.
About the sixth or seventh day, the epidermis, or cuticle of the skin begins to peal off, commencing in those places which first became the seat of the rash, and gradually continuing all over the body. In such parts as are covered with a thin delicate cuticle (as the face, breast, &c.) the cuticle comes off in small dry scurfs; in such parts as are covered with a thicker epidermis, in large flakes. There have been instances of almost complete gloves and slippers coming away from patients' hands and feet.--The fever subsides entirely, and so does the inflammation of the throat and mouth, which become moist again. Also the epithelia, or the delicate cuticles of the mucous membranes, which have been affected by the disease
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