Disease in children : a manual for students and practitioners.

  • Carmichael, James.
Date:
1892
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    shape of minute red spots, which soon enlarge into small blotches, with irregular and crenated margins and general crescentic shape. The spots may be isolated or confluent, forming a continuous blotching over portions of the skin, somewhat resembling in places the scarlatinal eruption. The spots are somewhat elevated to touch. During the first day of the eruption the symptoms are generally aggravated and the temperature high, the tongue coated, bowels constipated, and urine scanty; in the second and third days, when the eruption has come out all over the cutaneous surface, the severity of the symptoms abates, and the patient feels greatly relieved, the fever and eruption soon disappear, the temperature generally being normal or subnormal by the sixth or seventh day or third day of eruption. During the week after the eruption there is a furfuraceous or branny desquamation of the skin over the body and limbs, and un- less some complication arises Chart 8.-Measles. ^^^^ P^^i^nt is quite well, al- though weak and sensitive to cold. Such are the clinical features of the re£:ular form of the disease, but variations occur in its character and course in different epidemics. The season of the year, state of the atmosphere, and climate of the locality, as well as the general hygienic condition of the patient and his surroundings, and the state of his health previously, may modify the type and course of the disease. The chief varieties met with are :— 1. A Mglily inflammatory and severe form in which all the symptoms are of great severity. The disease is ushered in Svith delirium or convulsions, the eruption comes out in extra--