The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-06-10
= WARNING AGAINST
81. ANTH0NY'S FIRE
rgia State Board of Health
Explains Dangers of the
Disease, Erysipelas, and
Outlines Necessary
Precautions.


iildren against the dangers of Saint
anthony's Fire says the Georgia.
tate Board of Health, in an interest.
ing bulletin setting forth the con.
I tageous nature, OF this disease, which
is simply erysipelas under another
name, and which enters the body
through some wound, cut or abras,
ion not properly cared for.
ErysiDelas gets its other more PIC
turesque name from the fact that it'll
is virulant inflammation, accom-.
panied by an intense burning sensa.
ton, which turns the skin a fiery,
heated red
ErysipAas is highly contagious
serm disease. The only safe way to
guard against it is to wash all scrat-
'ehes, cuts and other wounds with
some simple but effective antiseptic
solution, and protect the place where
the skin is broken from outside in.
lection.
Where a case of erysipelas already
exists the patient should be isolated
ana the utmost care should be taken
70 prevent its spread to other PEG
PIE. All the precautions taken in
other contagious diseases should be
used, and above all on one on whose
hand there is the slightest scratch
should touch any of the bedclothes
Or other articles that come IN. cons
tact with the patient.
a scratch which would be too trivial
10 be remembered may be the point
o. entrance Of these germs. Mothers
at the time children are born. are lii
afle to the disease unless the strict
esq antiseptic cleanliness is practiced
Known to the Aucients.
Erysipelas is one Of the Oldest
diseases known to medicine Greco
i'oman and Arabian physicians were
acquainted with it in ancient times.
hippocrates and Galen both wrote
about it. 1t is common to all ages
and all countries.
Erysipelas seems to depend in all
cases on the existence of a wound or
abrasion. 1t usually manifests itself
In from three to seven days after the
germ has gained entrance through the
broken place in the skin. The skin
Of the face is the most usual site of
Inc disease. There is a tingllng soon
followed by an intense burning at the
point where the germ entered The
spot soon becomes red and hot, slight
ly raised above the surface OF the
surrounding healthy skin. The mar
gins are sharply defined Very often
blisters form on the diseased surface.
Swelling as a rule is pronounced, and
when the face is the seat of the dis
sease the patient is sometimes rem
dqred unacceptable during the i'll
ness, &H
The disease spreads rapidly, but
the part involved today may be free
| of the disease tomorrow. The general
condition Of the patient during the
progress Of the disease depends on
previous health, age and physical con.
dition at the time When patients arc
not aged and are in otherwise coed
health the symptoms are not ordr
naiily very severe, There NAV be
slight ehiIlinoss, loss of appetite,
headache and fever for one or two
days.
When the disease is not complicated
by weakness other ailments or old
age, the prospects for recovery are
good. But in the aged and those de-
bilitatcd BIZ the presence OF some
other diseases, such as chronic
0right's disease, chronic malaria. die.
betes, and the like, erysipelas may
produce alarming symptoms and not
lnlrequently cause death in these
patients there is dry tongue high
fever, rapid pulse, labored breathing.
great prostitution and derium.
Sometimes suppuration or gaugrene
Of the diseased skin may set in before
death occurs.
Complications Co With IT,
Erysipelas is sometimes complteat-
ed by meningitis, pneumonia, pleuri-
sy, Inflammation Of the kidneys. and
| septicemia or so-called blood poison
ing. TheT may be also innamma-
zion Of M lining membrane Of the
| heart
/ Erysipelas is, therefore, an extreme
ly serious disease either fer young or
old, and in all cases a competent
physician or surgeon should immed.
lately be called in.
Parents and school teachers and
al Others who exercise an influence
| over children are urged by the Board
of Health to describe to the children,
in simple language, how this and 9TH
er dangerous diseases may result
! from small cuts when not properly
| treated, in order that they may be
made TO understand the necessity Of
protecting even trivial cuts from in.
lection. This is case in which an
ounce Of prevention is truly worth 2
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