Pathology and treatment of the infectious diseases / by Karl Liebermeister ; translated by E.P. Hurd, with notes and appendices.

Date:
1888
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Credit: Pathology and treatment of the infectious diseases / by Karl Liebermeister ; translated by E.P. Hurd, with notes and appendices. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Prognosis. The prognosis in simple cases is generally favor- able. In the absence of complications, a fatal issue is altogether exceptional. Any danger attending the disease is dependent principally on the complications, and as these have for their effect to increase and prolong the fever, the prog- nosis will in general be the more favorable, the more regular and normal the curve of the temperature. The existence of a previous disease on which the measles is grafted notably aggravates the situation. The affection presents greater gravity during the first two years of life, for at this age it is almost always complicated with capillary bronchitis, which is gener- ally fatal. The mortality varies greatly according to epidem- ics. In those which are benign, fatal cases are ex- ceptional, and do not amount to more than one or two per cent. In grave epidemics the mortality may at- tain io per cent. A higher proportion than this is only observed among savage tribes, or as the result of absolute neglect and want of treatment. TREATMENT. Prophylactic measures of isolation are less ap- plicable to measles than to the other contagious diseases, and as the immense majority of persons must have measles sooner or later, means of prevention have only a secondary importance. It is only in epidemics