Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-11-16
TREATMENT oP SCARLET FEVER.

The following article from an eminent Physician
of Washington will possess interest for every fami
ly as well as for the Medical profession
To the Editor of the Boston Medcnl and Surgical Journal
WAsHlssros, APsIL ii, 1850
SR: AS every thing relating the of scarlet
eyea disease almost fatal and destructive cholera
se-s Of great interest to the profession and the public
desire TO call the attention of your readers TO the mode OF
treatment recommended by DR.. Schneemann Physician TO
the King Of Hanover contained in recent number Of the
London Lancet The plan proposed by Dr. 3. has not
ceved the attention from the medical profession in this
try In England, lar knowledge extends that lis
importance demands My experiences with il is consid
eIable, and think safely recommend it very valu
able addition to Of conducting this dreaded disease
to satisfactory termination. 1t is philosophical and rational
in simple and efficient in practice.
Its modus operand will be glance and will COM
mend itself to every discriminating physicians for every
think will admit that the chief weight of this disease falls
upon the skin and OF whatever tends restore the
deranged functions Of this important part Of the body, will
contribute most materially alleviate all the symptoms The
employment OF this remedy Of will not prevent the
Of such other experience sanctions and each pacu
lar calls for axarives fsbfuges applications the
throat internal aud external &c
hope fair trial will be given to this mode of treatment
by the profession and the results made known through the
journals that its true value may definitely asceained
suhon the important directions given by Dr. Schnee
mann, In somewhat abbreviated form.
HARVEY LINDSLY, MD.
Treatment of Scarlet Feper By Injunction on-From the
first day OF the illness, and certain Of its
nature the patient be rubbed morning and evening
the whole body with piece Of bacon in such that
with the exception Of the head, covering Of fat 10 every
where applied In order make this rubbingin somewhat
ease is best take piece Of bacon the size Of the hand
choosing part still armed with the nd that may have
firm grasp On the soft side Of this piece sls to be
made in order to allow The oozng out Of the fat The rub
bng must be thoroughly performed and not too quickly in
order that the skin may be regularly saturated with The fat
The beneficial results of this application obvious
with rapidity bordering magic ALL the most painful
symptoms Of the disease aayed quiet sleep, good hu
appetite return, and there remains only the impotence
to quit the sick room.
The advantages Of the treatment indicated may be summed
up follows
I. The improbabity, might almost say the mpossi
by of the patient getting cold while the skin thus covered
with a-a point in no disease more important than here.
q The dry brteness of the skin and the ormenting Itch
ing are by not only materially alevated but generally
entirely removed Every practitioner knows how often the
itching and burning of the skin in scarlet fever unendua
BILE to children keeping them constantly in distressing
men and robbpg them of Sleep Hence children gene
rally well satisfied with this process and often ask for its
petition long before the time is come.
g. The influence the physiological functions Of the skin
IS still more important During the coming of scarlet
fever the skin becomes diseased in consequences of which it
loses its vital power. During this illness, and until
covering again prepared for the surface, the functions of
the skin very mperecy performed, during the des
quamaton probably not at ALL In order to explain the
tent and importance Of the mpecebe functions of the skin
in merely mechanical view of the NATTER the reader is
ered to the accurate experiments Of sesun, which fix the
quantity Of matter thrown off from the skin at eleven
grains per minute in person. and therefore more than
pounds per day. What efforts it the organism
to lead large quantity into other paths in order to throw
it of, when the skin is incapable of doing 81! !
With this disappearance of the desquamaton disappear
all those bad symptoms which attend it. In order to give
striking proof Of the Importance and bad influence which
the interrupted functions Of the skin produce the healthy
activity Of relative, if distant organs may cite the
fact that death always the result where than oneha
Of the skin has been destroyed by fire or boiling liquid
similar destruction Of the skin in scarlet fever with this
difference that takes place gradually, and thereby the
ganm is better enabled, by employing all the activity Of the
body find aid against the mischief which must result from
the cessation of the functions Of the skin.