The treatment of the exanthemata by so-called antiseptic inunction : with observations on the period of incubation and the duration of infectiveness in scarlet fever : a paper read before the Association on June 27, 1894 / by H.G. Armstrong.

  • Armstrong, Henry George.
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1894
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Credit: The treatment of the exanthemata by so-called antiseptic inunction : with observations on the period of incubation and the duration of infectiveness in scarlet fever : a paper read before the Association on June 27, 1894 / by H.G. Armstrong. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE TREATMENT OF THE EXANTHEMATA BY SO-CALLED ANTISEPTIC INUNCTION. In the year 1849 there was published in the pages of The Lancet the translation of a paper by Dr, SL-hneeman, physician at the Hanoverian Court, advocating a new method of treating scarlatina, which materially shortened the duration of the disease, and checked all infection at the end of the third or fourth day. The treatment consisted in inuncting the body with a piece of bacon fat, in such a way that, with the exception of the face, and hairy scalp, a covering of fat is everywhere applied. With a rapidity, bordering on magic, he says, all, even the most painful symptoms of the disease are allayed ; quiet, sleep, appetite, and good humour return, and there remains only the impatience to quit the sick room. In spite, hoAvever, of the rapid cure, the rubbing was to be kept up for four weeks, during which time the linen was to be very sjraringly changed, and no washing was to be done at all. The desquamation, if there was any, was stated to be entirely completed by the tenth day of the disease. In the year 1890, and again in 1891 and in 1893, the last before this Association, and published in The Medical Magazine, papers were read by Mr. J. Brendon Curgenven, advocating the treatment of scarlatina and the other exan- themata by the inunction of the patient with a preparation of certain essential oils. The preparation he uses, and recommends, is Tucker’s oleusaban, which is stated to consist of two or three essential oils of different densities,