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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    nous matter affects the alimentary canal, causing pain in the stomach, the bowels, the kidneys and the bladder; a smarting diarrhoea with excoriation o£ the anus, and inflammatory symptoms of the vulva. Also the bronchia, lungs, pleura and pericardium become affected, as sneez- ing, cough (the so-called scarlet-cough) and the pain across the chest and in the region of the heart indicate. 23. OTHER BAD SYMPTOMS. These symptoms may present themselves with the rash standing out; but most frequently they occur when there is little or no eruption, or when it fades, becomes livid, or disappears altogether. A sudden disappearance of the rash, before the sixth day, commonly increases the typhoid symptoms, and must be considered a bad omen. Also the invasion of the larynx, which is happily of rare occurrence, is commonly fatal. 24. DESTRUCTION OF THE ORGAN OF HEARING. When the glands pass into a sloughing state, the parts connected with them are frequently damaged. Thus the ulceration of the parotid gland often causes deafness, by the gangrenous matter communicating to the eustachian tube and the inner ear, where it destroys the membrane of the drum and the little bones belong- ing thereto, or by closing up the tube. When the dis- charge from the outer ear is observed, the destruction has already taken place, and it is too late to obviate the injury. 25. OTHER SEQUELS, DROPSY, &C Beside the ulceration of glands and deafness, some of the sequels of scarlatina are white swelling of one or more of the joints, usually the knee, chronic in- flammation of the eyes and eyelids, and partial paralysis. These chiefly occur in scrofulous subjects. Dropsy, which