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.
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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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    38. ACETIC ACID. Brown1 recommends diluted Acetic Acid as a spe- cific against all forms of scarlatina. Experience, how- ever, has not supported his confidence in the infallibility of his remedy. 39. MINERAL ACIDS (MURIATIC ACID PRESCRIPTIONS) have also been used with good effect in some epidemics. Muriatic acid I have frequently used myself for inflam- mation of the throat, in connection with hydriatic treat- ment, and it has almost always contributed to relieve the symptoms materially.2 40. FRICTIONS WITH LARD were used already by Caelius Aurelianus,3 and recently re-introduced into practice, by Drs. Dasne and Schnee- mann,4 in Germany, and by Dr. Lindsley,5 in America. 1 J. B. Brown, On scarlatina, and its successful treatment by the Aci- dum-aceticum-dilutum of the Pharmacopeia. London, 1846. 2 The forms in which I have given this acid are the following: Take three ounces of raspberry syrup and fifteen drops of muriatic acid. Rub the whole of the acid with two or three spoonfuls of syrup in a por- celain mortar (or, if there is none, in a soup-plate with the foot of a wine- glass, or a tumbler) for a minute or two; then add some more of the syrup and rub again, and thus continue till the acid is well divided and mixed up with the syrup. Of this mixture give the patient a teaspoonful every hour or two, or oftener, according to the symptoms. An other form for a gargle is this: Take a cup of coarse pearl-barley (or of rice), roast it till yellow; then boil it with one quart of water for ten minutes; add one teaspoonful of muriatio-acid, and four or six tablespoonfuls of honey; mix it well and use it for a gargle, tepid. The decoction should be passed through some linen, or a sieve, before the acid and honey are added, to keep back the barley or rice-grains. The syrup should be used for inflammation of the tonsils ; the gargle for inflammation of the fauces or pharynx. 3 Schnitzlein, das Scharlachfieber, seine Geschichte, Erkenntniss und Heilung. Munchen, 1851. * Schneemann, die sichere Heilung der Scharlachkrankheit durch eine neue. vollig gefahrlose Heilmethode. Hannover, 1848. 5 Lindsley, Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, May, 1850.