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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    respiration; a natural expression of the features; a moist skin. 32. UNFAVORABLE SYMPTOMS are: A fetid breath, with ulceration and sloughing of the throat and glands; a smarting and weakening diarrhoea; involuntary evacuations of the bowels; dizziness, deaf- ness, coma, grinding of the teeth; retention of urine; petechias; a rapid decline of the patient's strength; a quick, small, weak pulse; rapid breathing; twitchings, tetanus, hiccough, &c.—Closing up of the nose frequently precedes a dangerous affection of the brain. A sudden disappearance of the rash, or of the inflammation of the throat, is a bad omen. With such symptoms as these1, there is usually little or no rash, and the little there is, of a pale, livid color, and the skin, in general, inactive.