[28] A. Edler von Fröhlichsthal, Abhandl. über d. kräftige, sichere und schnelle Wirkung der Uebergiessungen &c. im Faul-, Nerven-, Gallen-, Brenn- und Scharlachfieber. Wien, 1842.
[29] L. Hesse, in Rust's Magaz. Vol. XXVII. 1.
[30] R. Steimmig, Erfahr. und Betracht. über d. Scharlachfieber und seine Behandl. Karler., 1828.
[31] P. ex. Reich, who kept the sick-room quite cold, and made his scarlet-patients walk out in any weather; he assures us that he cured his patients in five days, an interesting fact, for the correctness of which, however, the Doctor alone is responsible.
[32] A visit at my establishment of a gentleman, a short time ago, whom I treated for scarlatina anginosa in the city of New-York in February, 1851, reminds me of the sensation caused among his friends by our walking out together on the tenth day in a snow-storm, to take dinner at a restaurant's, where we consumed a partridge and sundry other articles, after which we took a further walk of half an hour. Some physicians of my acquaintance told me "I was killing the man," to which I replied, I would let them know, when he was dead. However, he never experienced the slightest inconvenience from his early exposure; on the contrary, he felt bright and strong on coming home, and has been in pretty good health ever since. He saved, last year, the life of a nephew, who had been given up, by packing him, in scarlet-fever, whilst two of the patient's sisters were allowed to die soon after—unpacked!—Their uncle had been compelled to leave the place of their residence, and the parents had neither courage nor confidence in the water-cure to repeat the process, though their son—whom I saw a few weeks afterwards in vigorous health,—had been saved by it. They had more confidence in drugs which had done nothing for him.
[33] Mr. Rossteuscher, who became afterwards proprietor of a water-cure-establishment near Cassel.
[34] "And something may be done by way of gargles, to correct the state of the throat, and to prevent the distressing and perilous consequences, which would otherwise be likely to flow from it. A weak solution of the chloride of soda may be employed for this purpose; and if the disease occur in a child that is not able to gargle, this solution may be injected into the nostrils and against the fauces, by means of a syringe or elastic bottle. The effect of this application is sometimes most encouraging. A quantity of offensive sloughy matter is brought away; the acid discharge is rendered harmless; the running from the nose and diarrhœa cease, &c."
"From several distinct and highly respectable sources, chlorine itself has been strongly pressed upon my notice, as a most valuable remedy in the severest forms of scarlet-fever." Watson, Principles and Practice of Physic.
Dr. Watson also recommends a drink, prepared of a drachm of chlorate of potass to a pint of water, and has found great improvement from the use of a pint to a pint and a half of this solution daily.
Brown gives his scarlet-patients the pure liquor calcii chloridi, or the aqua oxymuriatica in quantities of one teaspoonful every two or three hours and considers this remedy as almost a specific. A solution of the same remedy may be used as a gargle, and also as a wash; and if used internally, I would rather recommend it in preference to the pure liquor, in the hands of persons not used to medical practice. In putrid cases, also the packing sheet may be dipped in a thin solution of chloride.—From an aversion to drugs—very natural in a hydriatic physician—I have never tried medicated sheets, getting along very nicely without them, but I think they must have sufficient virtue to recommend themselves to physicians and parents, who would like to try them.