Diseases of infancy and childhood (1914) (14585407658)
Zusammenfassung
Identifier: diseasesofinfan00fisc (find matches)
Title: Diseases of infancy and childhood
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Fischer, Louis, 1864- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Children
Publisher: Philadelphia, F. A. Davis company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress
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/. Kinturacoons Dosquninatioii. ;i. Circinato lV>-c;uainaUou.3. Flaky Desquamation. SCARLET FEVER. 607 Scarlatina Papulosa.—Small, slightly elevated papules of a dark-redcolor develop at the site of the hair follicles. They are more readily de-tected by the finger than by the eye, and are observed twelve to eighteenhours before the ordinary scarlatinal rash appears. Scarlatina Variegata.—^This form is marked by an extremely irregulardistribution of the eruption, frequently associated with the development ofwell-defined macular areas of an intense red color, situated at the site of thehair follicles, and in many instances simulating the exanthem of measles. Scarlatina Sine Fehre.—Among extremely mild cases of scarlatina in-stances are frequently seen in which, after a slight initial rise^ the disease
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_ 19G.—Unusually Severe Desquamation. Willaid Parker Hospital. (Original.) progresses without any subsequent elevation of temperature above 98.5° to99° F., every other symptom being present, but in a mild degree. Henoch reports 4 cases out of 175 with irregularities of temperature.Fever of an inverted type has been reported by Henoch, who noted the tem-perature curve quite the reverse of normal, in which the temperature washigher in the morning than in the evening. Scarlatina Sine Angina.—^This form of scarlatina has very slight throatsymptoms or so insignificant as to appear almost absent. A slight conges-tion of the throat is visible, and usually a faint cnnnthem is present earlyin the disease. The tonsils are not enlarged, but there is an ahnost eonshmt enlarge-ment of the papilla at the tip and edges of the tongue—an iinporfanf diag-nostic aid. Desquamation.—The desquamation of the skin in scarhitina beginsover those areas on which the rash was lirst seen, nanu^lv, the t