A manual of infectious diseases / by E.W. Goodall and J.W. Washbourn.

  • Goodall, E. W. (Edward Wilberforce), 1861-
Date:
1896
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Credit: A manual of infectious diseases / by E.W. Goodall and J.W. Washbourn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be given, and subsequently iron and quinine should be administered. Unless the diarrhoea is excessive it is better not to check it. The surface of the affected skin should be dusted with starch and oxide of zinc powder. Painting the margin of the inflamed skin with nitrate of silver sometimes appears to stop the advance of the inflammation. In traumatic erysipelas the wound should be treated on antiseptic principles. The results obtained by treatment with the antistrep- tococcal serum are sufficiently encouraging to justify the prediction that this remedy will ultimately prove to be of great value.