Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-08-30
From the Charleston Courier.
SCARLET FEVER.

MEssERs EDIToRs:-Haying met with the
following article in the Journal Medical de Ia
Gironde 2nd volume; published at Bordeaux
in 1924, translated it fer my amusement, and
have had it laying by me for some time. As
the Scarlet Ferer has made its appearance
among us, and has proved fatal to number of
children, take the liberty Of handing it to you
for publication, for the purpose of bringing the
subject to the notice of the Medical I'rofes-
sion, and in the hope that it may prove SER
viceable to the community at large. The
remedy suggested is at least worthy of trial,
and even should it not succeed, can do no posi-
tive harm. Yours, truly,
(TRANsLATION.)
"If the secret of the healing art consists
fsays DR.. Hahneman, of Leispic,*) in COM
Batting diseases with remedies capable of en-
eendering them, land ifinoculation with vaccine
affords protection from small pox, BellaaonnG
will be an antidote for Sc0rle, Ferer, since that
substance, by its poisonous effects, possesses
the faculty Of producing the symptoms which
characterize that disease so important dis
eovery did not fail to attract the attention OF
the German physicians, who since the yea.
1907, the period when it was made known,
have had oppor;u lities of convincing them
selves in the most satisfactory manner, that
Bcllcdonna exhibited in certain doses, and the
form hereafter indicated, possesses the prop
erty of preserving from the contaglon of Scar
Bet Ferer, to such an extent, that the most init
mate contact with patients laboring under the
disease, has been unattended with danger to
those who have used the preventive in time,
and even when it has been resossed to too late
to ureyent the effects Of consagion, it moder-
ates in peculiar manner the nalgn!ty Of the
disease.
.Amone the German physicians who have
tested this property Of Belladonna, is DR..
Berndt, OF Custrin. This physician, during
the endemic Of scarlet fever, Of which that
ci.y was the theatre in 1918 and 'l9, used this
plant with signal success. In order to arrive
at positive conclusions, he employed it at first
en- persons who had been subject to the direct
influence Of the contagion, and particularly
upon children under 10 years, who on account
cf t.eir age are most liable to contract this
disease. and who, besides thei. permanent con-
tacs with the disease, were most threatened
with the effects c! c!contagioa. lie administered
10 children Of one year and under, on the frs:
DAYS, morning and evening. from two to three
drops of the following ra!xture:-'Fake of the
extract of Belladouna recently prepared, two
Grains: vinous tincture of Cinnamon cne ounce
Tc, children Of two years he increased the
,ios. one o, two drops, but the saaxinu l..
Ilose never exceeded twelve drops, as well fo,
children Of l2 years as fos those who exceeded
,h,+ aoe. After month and more OF th!s
prophvlac.ic treatment during the epidemic
10 had the satisfaction OF finding that Of l9:
children continually exposed to the contagation
e IN whom he had administered the extract 0
B,,ladona, there were but IA who,in spite oith<
,--r,,nrrap. 9; It's preventative P'orc attack