The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-01-10
SCARLET FEVER.


ent's heart, is titus simply treated by
Dr. Roth, Of Boston II has been pub
lished before, but the ravagea Of this
complaint are again on tho increase
and that Is our excuse for giving the ar.
ticle wider publicity:
Scarlet fever always begins with a
loss Of appetite; then fever always be.
gins with a throat; then red patches:
then recovery, or otherwise quick or
slow death, according to circumstances.
To arrest It's course and prevent its ray.
ages, medicine and manipulation ad
libitum have been tried in vain; for
more children die Of scarlet fever now
than one thousand years ago. But
wbyl Because nothing. absolutely
nothing, is as yet known ~ to what
scarlet fever is; and whai is still worse.
there was, until recently, 40 need felt
Of such knowledge.
u is as unnecessary for child to die
OF scarlet lever az il IL that it should be
blind with cataract. Let us Nec. At
any time before the body has finished
its Intellectual struggle we are able TO
help It, not by wonderful medicine, but
by the knowledge Of anatomy, aud the
application Of common sense. We con
suit the sympathetic nerve. aud do
whit it commands ns TO do. We muss
give the child salt when it wants il: we
mus. give il acid when IL Las fever and
nnxiously Graves it-not vinegar. but
lemon juice. because the first coagulates
albunen, the latter does not, on account
of the surplus Of oxygen which il con
tainS. To initiate the soothing mucous
III the intestincs, which il now venting.
aud 70 give some respiratory food at tie
same time, VIC add some gum arabic.
To restore and relieve the injured nerve,
We apply mont warmth.
In practice we can rniIGli all this
with the following simple manipulation:
Undress the child and hiring il to bed
at the very first signsof sickness. Give
IL. IT it has already fever, nothing but
sourish warm lemonade with some
gum arabic ia it. Then cnvrr is abdo
men with dry flannel. Take we'll
folded bed sheet. and pat it ia boiling
water; wiring it out dry by means Of
dry towels, and put this over the chiid's
abdomen. Then cover whole and wait.
The CLOTH perhaps viii require repeated
heat. According to the severity Of the
case, and its stage Of progress, pc.apira-
tion will commence in the child in from
ten minutes 20 two hours. Soon sfser
the child awnkes il shoxs slight symp-
tons of ieturning inclination for food;
help its bowels, if necessary, with in
jectiohs Of oil, soap and water, aud its
recovery viii be steady ~ the growth
"i the greenhouse plant, if well treated.
OF course il the child wax already dy
ing, nothing could save it, or il it has
already illusions in the lining of the
b.hrt or brain, IL is much better that it
should die. But if the above Is applied
IN due time, under the ewes and d.
reeiion Of a competent physician, ! will
guarantee that not one in hundred
will die of scarlet fever. /
know this will startlc some OF INV read |
ers, especially those who have lost
children already, but shall 60 still fur |
ther. | maintain that child will never
get scarlet fever if properly treated. Ifa
child has correctly mixed blood. it will |
not catch the disorder if put in bed
with sick child This is still more |
startling, but nothing is easier OF proof.
The same is also true of whooping
cough, cholera infantum, etc. refer
10 Prof Won Niemeyer's treatment of
~hooping cough; it consists of equal
in room of seventy live
degrees, and the regulation OF appro-
pirate digestion. lie warrants, by fol
lowing this course, every case of whoop-
ing congh to disappear, in three weeks.
think even this could SIC shortened.
lemon juice, salt. gum arabic and heat
are all that is required in choler1. in.
antum--onlY the restoration Of diges-
ion is here more difficult ON account
# the intestinal things being injured
iirectly.