An inquiry into the etiology of Rötheln (German measles) / by Donald W.C. Hood.

  • Hood, Donald W. C.
Date:
1895
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Credit: An inquiry into the etiology of Rötheln (German measles) / by Donald W.C. Hood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1-7 Being much interested in this case I endeavoured to trace the source of infection. I ascertained that the patient was in the habit of attending, morning classes, and that at the time of her iUness several of her friends and fellow pupils had sickened with an attack much the same as that described. I communicated with the doctors in charge of these cases, and they very kindly supplied me with full information. In each case the attack was much the same as with my own patient; the outbreak apparently was initiated by a young maid-servant who was accustomed to call at the school and attend some of the pupils on their way home. As far as I could learn, it was only those pupils who walked with this maid who were ill. Dr. Argles, of Oxford Terrace, under whose care the servant came, has given me an account of her illness, which was as follows :— Miss A. B. (one of the pupils) has just recovered from a slight attack of what I believe to have been rotheln. The invasion stage was very indistinctly marked, merely a slight catarrh. Eruption a typical rash, but it quite dis- appeared in four days. The first case which appeared in the house was of much more importance and interest ; it was a young country servant in whom an attack of herpes was followed by a most abundant morbilliform rash, first on the face and then over the whole body. It presented altogether so unusual a character, that I asked Dr. Duffin to see her, and she was transferred to King's College Hospital. His opinion was that it was German measles. She had a temperature of 107°, abundant albumen in urine, and was altogether very bad. It was only those pupils who had been brought directly in contact with the maid, who suffered from this indefinite exanthem ; they all had previously passed through measles, and m.y own patient, as I have before stated, had had two previous attacks.