A contribution to the etiology of scarlatina in surgical cases : from the Clinical Records of the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children / by W.E. Paley ; communicated, with observations, by James F. Goodhart.

  • Paley, W.E.
Date:
[1879?]
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Credit: A contribution to the etiology of scarlatina in surgical cases : from the Clinical Records of the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children / by W.E. Paley ; communicated, with observations, by James F. Goodhart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ETIOLOGY OF SCARLATINA IN SURGICAL CASES. From the Clinical Records of the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children By W. E. PALEY. COMMUNICATED, WITH OBSERVATIONS, By JAMES F. GOODHART, M.D. There has been some discussion of late upon the nature of an eruption like that of scarlatina which occasionally occurs after surgical operations. Enough has been said to show that its cause is still open to question, and, consequently, that there is room for fresh facts concerning it. Whether it be scarlatina or something else; its irregular course; its definite relation in many cases to surgical operations ; are all points still involved in much obscurity. Many cases of this kind have occurred at the Evelina Hos- pital, and seeing them from time to time, as one has done, seemingly sporadically, the relationship to an operation of some kind has been the most prominent feature in many instances, and I have been disposed to regard the rash as due to some blood changes dependent upon the operation, and not to the appropriation of any particular poison. But what little litera- ture there is upon the subject points decidedly to just the opposite conclusion. Dr. Gee, in his article on scarlatina in f Reynolds' System of Medicine,' devotes a paragraph to