Volume 1

Public hygiene / by Thos. S. Blair[and others].

  • Blair, Thomas Stewart, 1867-1939
Date:
1911
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Credit: Public hygiene / by Thos. S. Blair[and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    Period of Incubation Mode of Onset Time of Eruption Character of Eruption Disappearance of Eruption Duration of Illness Other Symptoms Mode of Contagion Period of Contagion Note Period Incubation Mode of Onset Time of Eruption Character of Eruption Disappearance of Eruption Duration Illness Other Symptoms Mode of Contagion Period of Contagion Cerebro-spinal Meningitis Not definitely known. Probably three or four days. No prodromal symptom. Repeated chills, vomiting, and severe pain in head and back usher in disease. Irregular. Herpes labialis frequently appear between third and sixth days. No characteristic eruption. Herpes facialis in many cases. Frequently vaso-motor dis- turbances cause an erythema of skin or a pur- puric rash. No regular time or manner. Death in from fifty to eighty per cent of cases, in from eight hours to two weeks. In case of recovery, convalescence is very prolonged. Marked rigidity muscles back and neck,inflam- matory exudate causes various pressure symp- toms; cranial and spinal nerves involved. From the patient and especially the bronchial and nasal secretions, infected clothing and other articles, from a third person. During entire illness. The epidemic form of this disease has not oc- curred in every section of this country a nd some physicians have never seen a case. Per- mit me to sound a note of special warning re- garding this quickly fatal disease. Chickenpox Usually ten to fourteen days. Slight fever, vesicular eruption. Vomiting and convulsions in severe cases. Appears within first twenty-four hours. Discrete, superficial, umbilicated vesicles. Ap- pear in crops three to five days. Later, con- tents vesicles become milky and sero-purulent. Brown crusts formon vesicles, which fall off in one week. Seldom scars; perhaps two or three. Usually one to two weeks. Very moderate fever two to four days. No constitutional symptoms of any moment. From exfoliation of crusts on body and pos- sibly from respiratory passages. Direct con- tact not necessary. Until last crusts are off.
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