Scarlatina in Calcutta

Scarlatina in Calcutta

fever in this citj, if possible, beyond doubt or question, we have addressed a circular letter to all the medical practitioners of Calcutta, asking for an expression of their opinion and statement of their experience on the subject. There is, in the replies received, a remarkable unanimity on the negative side. Dr. Chevers, who has had, since 1853, abundant opportunities in Howrah and Calcutta ...

Case of Scarlatina in India

the following case which had all the clinical phenomena of scarlatina. Myrtle, T., cet. 6, born in India, both parents European, resident of Saraghat, came down to Calcutta for a few days with her mother and a sick sister, who was admitted into the General Hospital for fever. The patient Myrtle lived at the house of her aunt near Ballygunge. The mother started for Sara with Myrtle a few daj's l...

On the Prevalence and Fatality of Scarlatina as Influenced by Sex, Age, and Season

During the twelve years 1857-68, I have found recorded in the books of the Poor-law Medical Staff and of various medical institutions in Islington to which I have access, 3,850 cases of scarlatina. These twelve years include three epidemics, namely, those of 1859, 1863, and 1867-8; three years intervening between 1859 and 1863, and three years again between 1863 and 1867. Sex and Age in their R...

Dr. Parry's Elements of Pathology and Therapeutics

as the topical effect of that increased momentum, forming a part of local inflammation. The same effect may happen from general plethora, as is shewn by the bloody urine following scarlatina, and sometimes measles; forming, in scarlatina, one link of a series of effects, of which articular inflammation and dropsy often constitute other links. Here anasarca or ascites being vicarious with hemorr...

Memoranda on Carbonate of Lithia in Acute Rheumatism Associated with Scarlatina, and in Urticaria; Etc.