The treatment & disinfection of scarlet fever by antiseptic inunction / by J. Brendon Curgenven.

  • Curgenven, J. Brendon (John Brendon), 1831-1903.
Date:
1893
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    ON THE TREATMENT AND DISINFECTION OF SCARLET FEVER BY ANTISEPTIC INUNCTION. By J. BRENDON CURGENVEN, M.R.C.S., &c. Read at a Meeting of the Medical Officers of Schools Association January 13TH, 1893. In reply to the invitation conveyed to me by the Honorary Secretaries of your Association to read a paper on the Treat- ment and Disinfection of Scarlet Fever by Antiseptic In- unction, at your meeting to-day, I readily assented. I felt it a matter of very great importance for the welfare of the Public Schools, and indeed of all schools, that the merits of this method of treatment should be recognised, and that the hands of the Medical Officers of the Schools, and of the Head Masters should be strengthened to cope with any outbreak of infectious disease. For it is not only to Scarlet Fever, but to all forms of infectious disease, that this treatment is applicable, and I shall give you evidence that it has been successful in several instances in arresting the spread of infectious disease in schools. My first paper on this subject I read in this room before a meeting of the Fellows of the Epidemiological Society in 1890, and it is published in the transactions of that Society. In the following year I read a paper at the International Congress of Hygiene, which will be published