Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its(Annotated)

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PART THE FIRST.
DESCRIPTION OF SCARLET-FEVER. PAGE
1. Definition--Scarlet-Fever or Scarlatina 13
2. Division of the process of the disease into Periods 13
3. Period of Incubation, or Hatching 13
4. Period of Eruption, or Appearing of the Rash 14
5. Period of Efflorescence, or Standing out of the Rash 15
6. Period of Desquamation, or Peeling off 16
7. Period of Convalescence 17
8. Varieties of Forms of Scarlatina 17
9. Scarlatina simplex, or simple Scarlet-Fever 17
10. Scarlatina anginosa, or Sore-Throat Scarlet-Fever 18
11. Mild Reaction (erethic) 19
12. Violent Reaction (sthenic) 19
13. Torpid Reaction (asthenic) 19
14. Scarlatina miliaris 19
15. Scarlatina sine Exanthemate 20
16. Malignant Forms of Scarlatina 20
17. Sudden Invasion of the Nervous Centres 20
18. Affection of the Brain 20
19. 20. Affection of the Cerebellum and Spine 21
21. Putrid Symptoms 21
22. Condition of the Throat, and other Internal Organs 21
23. Other bad symptoms 22
24. Destruction of the Organ of Hearing 22
25. Other Sequels, Dropsy, &c. 22
26-27. The Contagion of Scarlatina very active 23
28. Diagnosis 24
29. Diagnosis from Measles 24
30. Prognosis 25
31. Favorable symptoms 25
32. Unfavorable symptoms 26

PART THE SECOND.
TREATMENT OF SCARLET-FEVER.
33. Different Methods of other Schools 27
34. The Expletive Method 27
35. The Anti-gastric Method 28
36. Ammonium carbonicum 29
37. Chloride of Lime 30
38. Acetic Acid 30
39. Mineral Acids. Muriatic Acids--Prescriptions 30
40. Frictions with Lard 30
41. Belladonna 31
42. There is neither a Specific nor a Prophylactic to be relied on 32
43. Water-Treatment, as used by Currie, Reuss, Hesse, Schoenlein, &c. 33
44. Priessnitz's Method--The wet-sheet-Pack 34
45-47. Technicalities of the Pack and Bath 34-36
48. Action of the Pack and Bath--Rationale 36
49. 50. What effect could be expected from a warm wet-sheet? 38
51. No cutting short of the process of Scarlatina--the morbid poison must be drawn to the skin as soon as possible 40
52. Necessity of Ventilation--Means of Heating the sick-room-- Relative merits of Open Fires, Stoves and Furnaces 41
53. Temperature of the sick-room 43
54. Water-drinking 44
55. Diet 44
56. Treatment of Scarlatina simplex 45
57. Treatment of Scarlatina anginosa 46
58-65. Treatment of the mild, or erethic Form of scarlatina anginosa 40-50
66. Treatment of the violent, or sthenic Form of scarlatina anginosa 50
67. Temperature of the water--double sheet--Changing sheet 51
68. 69. Length of Pack--Perspiration 52
70. Length of Bath 53
71. Caution 53
72. The wet Compress 54
73. Highly inflamed Throat--Croup 54
74. Necessity of allaying the Heat 55
75-77. The Half-bath--The Sitz- or Hip-Bath 55-56
78. Action of the sitz-bath explained 56
79. 80. Relaxation of Treatment towards the end of the third period--Continuation of Packs during and after Desquamation 57
81. Treatment of torpid Forms of scarlatina--Difference in the Treatment pointed out 58
82. Length of Pack 59
83. Cold Affusions and Rubbing 59
84. Ice-Water and Snow-Bath in malignant cases 59
85. Wine and Water, &c., if no reaction can be obtained 60
86. Ablutions and Rubbing with Iced-Water or Snow 61
87. Wet Compress 61
88. Ventilation all-important 61
89. Continuation of Packs--Convalescence 62
90. Mineral Acids, in case of severe sore Throat 62
91. Putrid Symptoms--Gargle--Solution of Chloride of Soda--Drink: Chlorate of potass--Liquor calcii chloridi 62
92. Treatment of Affections of the Nervous Centres 63
93. 94. Sitz-bath, anchor of safety 64
95.-97. Cases 65-68
98. 99. Impossibility of answering for the issue of every typhoid case 71
100. Is Water applicable in all typhoid cases? 71
101.-109. Rules for the application of water in typhoid cases 71-73
110.-112. Illustrations 73-78
PART THE THIRD.
113. Treatment of other Eruptive Fevers 80
114. Small-Pox 80
115. Varioloids, and Chicken-pocks 82
116. Measles 82
117. Urticaria, Zoster, Rubeola 83
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