A new compendium of the principles and practice of medicine : embracing the most recent improvements in the science / by Abrm. Livezey and J. Emerson Kent.

  • Livezey, Abraham, 1821-1896.
Date:
1853
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Credit: A new compendium of the principles and practice of medicine : embracing the most recent improvements in the science / by Abrm. Livezey and J. Emerson Kent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Divide into six powders, of which a child six years old may take three daily. The cough so commonly remaining after an attack of measles, readily yields to slight counter-irritation, as the omplast, roborans ; to naptha in doses of 5 to 10 drops, combined with one to two drops of prussic acid ; the dose for an adult:—children should take proportionate doses— the syrup of emetine, with camphorated tinct. of opium in equal proportions may also be used, in many cases, with immediate relief. The use of small doses of gentle in- tcrmittents, should be continued for a few days after all symptoms of the disease have disappeared. 4th. Scarlatina^ or Scarlet Fever, Scarlatina is a contagious eruptive modification of in- termittent fever, epidemic, and affecting the system usu- ally but once. Tlie eruption is preceded by febrile disturbance ; on the the second day a scarlet rash appears, which ends from the fifth to the seventh day, and is followed by cuticular des- quamation more or less perfect. Scarlatina is recognised by four terminals :—Scar. Sim- plex, Scaw anginosa, Scar, sine exanthemata, and Scar, maligna; but these varieties are only modifications, man- ifesting an excess of some special symptom or symptoms, and will oftimes all be found in the same family during its epidemic invasion. Prominent Symptoms, 1st. Scar. Simplex. General indisposition for twenty- four, or forty-eight hours, In some cases the child is sent