The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-22

en- pox about two weeks in variolold ten to
fourteen days and In smallpox ten to four
teen days. The preinonitory symptoms In
scarlet fever occur suddenly. very often at
night, and are principally sore throat,
nausea or vomiting, high fever. and
In severe cases conyulsions. The
first symptoms of measles also occur
suddenly. the chief symptoms being catarrh
and slight fever. In German measles the
onset is gradual, the fever slight. transient
and very often absent. In chicken pox the
first symptoms appear suddenly. as they do
m varioloid, which is characterized by chills.
high fever, headache and pain in the loins;
symptoms which IL has in common with
smallpox. In scarlet fever the eruption ap-
pears at the end of the first or during the
course OF the second day. In measles, the
eruption usually appears on the fourth day;
sometimes on. the third or fifth. In German
measles the eruption is usually the first
symptom, while in chicken pox the eruption
appears at once, and usually in successive
crops. In varioloid the eruption appears on
the third or fourth day, taking a typical
form on the sixth day. while characteristic
pustules form on the ninth day. as they
also do in smallpox. In scarlet fever the
eruption begins to disappear in from three
to five days, following the course Of its ap-
pearance. In measles the eruption fades in
about four days. In Germrn measles the
period is irregular: usually rom four TO six
days, without d~esquamation. In chicken
pox the eruption lasts but a few days, dry
ing up, as a rule. without suppuration. In
varioloid the p~ustules do not %suppurate, but
begin to dry up on the sixth day, and in
smallpox they dry up at the end of the Sec
ond week, the crusts separating slowly and
leaving marked and enduring scars.
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Apropos OF the possibility of the repopuIa-
ton of our newly acquired territory, the re-
cent address by Koch, before the German
Colonial Society, is OF interest. Beyfus, who
has written an exhaustive article contro-
verting the mosquito theory Of malaria.
says: decentralization means nothing less
than a process Of adaptation, which renders
possible the propagation of strong. viable
individuals, without degeneration, stigmata
and with the exclusion Of an affiux of fresh
blood from the mother country" The life
history of foreigners in tropical countries
proves that a perfect adaptation is not pos
s!ble. for in spite of the efforts Of the
Dutch, In Java, persistently and consistent
ly followed for hundreds of years, not a
single family can be found that has pre-
served its purity Of blood. Tropical tenn
peratures, intense solar radiation, varying
humidity and changeable winds, each and
all have unknown influences upon the un-
acclimated person, and there are alterations
of a subtle sort that render the foreigner
unable to resist a tropical climate.
DR.. Hart, speaking Of the Importance of
natures therapeutic says it is an open
secret that the death rate in typhoid fever
has been reduced, in the practice of a New
York physician, from 30 per cent. to / per
cent, or, at most, 2 per cent, by the use of
a diet of sweetmilk or buttermilk, aided by
the free use of water and baths, packs,
sponging, pure air and very little medicine.
This treatment. DR.. Hart says, was in en-
tire conformity with a rational interpreta-
ton Of natures laws; the food was the cas-
Test possible to digest, the hydropathic
treatment carried off extra heat, Quieted
nervousness, induced restful sleep and
washed decomposing poisons from the skin,
SO that it performed it's normal functions
under the most favorable circumstances.
BY this treatment the whole organism was
taxed in the minimum decree, so that it had
the best chance to combat disease and re-
gain its lost energy.
DR.. Bonney, writing of tuberculosis,
claims that many thousand deaths occur
every year from mistaken or delayed dag
nosis. In his own practice Il per cent. ar
rive in Colorado with distinct evidence of
the disease in both lungs. The average
duration of the disease, in the East, had
been eighteen months and the average loss
of weight had been nineteen pounds. Fiji
teen per cent. of the cases had followed
an attack of la grippe. In q per cent. the
onset was of a definite bronchial character
and in % per cent. there was a history Of
sudden hemorrhage. Bonney regards the
most important signs of pulmonary tuber-
culosis as morning cough, daily rise of
temperature and constitutional disturb
ances. Any and all of these, however, may
be absent and there is no especial sign of
paramount Importance. DIR. Bonney thinks
that. aside from a physical examination
upon the bare skin, the aid Of the X rays is
of great Importance.
Many cases of cough which resist all
treatment pertaining to the throat or lungs
are due to some disease of the ear. Cough
is one of the most common reflex manifes-
tations OF more or less remote irritation,
and all biologists agree that a cough may
be induced by ear disease. DIR. Kehr, while
stating that ear cough is a very uncommon
affection, advises that the ear be xamine
in every case where complaint is made of
the symptom of cough alone, for such a
cough is spasmodic in character and may
cause congestion of the larynx and lead the
physician as we'll as the patient to believe
that the throat is the cause instead of the
erect. DR.: Wonkes. speaking of ear cough,
suggests that a draught of cold air striking
the ear is occasionally the cause of spas
modic cough in children.
DR.. ~Girsdansky, in the New York Medical
Journal, writing of dust in the causation
OF tuberculosis. claims that the broom not
only serves no hygienic purpose. but main
tains organic dust in the air of large cities,
and is therefore the most important cause
Of the existence and spread of tubercu-
losis, as we'll as other infectious diseases.
He claims that carpets are unhygienic and
serve as a breed ground for bacilli, neces-
stating the use of a broom and a buster.
He argues that the only proper and safe
way of cleansing floors, and even streets
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