Chapter III: Part THE SECOND: Treatment of Scarlet-Fever

33. _Different Methods of other Schools_ 27

34. The Expletive Method 27

35. The Anti-gastric Method 28

36. Ammonium carbonicum 29

37. Chloride of Lime 30

38. Acetic Acid 30

39. Mineral Acids. Muriatic Acids--Prescriptions 30

40. Frictions with Lard 30

41. Belladonna 31

42. There is neither a Specific nor a Prophylactic to be
relied on 32

43. _Water-Treatment_, as used by Currie, Reuss, Hesse,
Schoenlein, &c. 33

44. Priessnitz's Method--The wet-sheet-Pack 34

45-47. Technicalities of the Pack and Bath 34-36

48. Action of the Pack and Bath--Rationale 36

49. 50. What effect could be expected from a warm wet-sheet? 38

51. No cutting short of the process of Scarlatina--the morbid
poison must be drawn to the skin as soon as possible 40

52. Necessity of Ventilation--Means of Heating the sick-room--
Relative merits of Open Fires, Stoves and Furnaces 41

53. Temperature of the sick-room 43

54. Water-drinking 44

55. Diet 44

56. _Treatment of Scarlatina simplex_ 45

57. _Treatment of Scarlatina anginosa_ 46

58-65. _Treatment_ of the _mild_, or erethic _Form_ of
scarlatina anginosa 40-50

66. _Treatment_ of the _violent_, or sthenic _Form_ of
scarlatina anginosa 50

67. Temperature of the water--double sheet--Changing sheet 51

68. 69. Length of Pack--Perspiration 52

70. Length of Bath 53

71. Caution 53

72. The wet Compress 54

73. Highly inflamed Throat--Croup 54

74. Necessity of allaying the Heat 55

75-77. The Half-bath--The Sitz- or Hip-Bath 55-56

78. Action of the sitz-bath explained 56

79. 80. Relaxation of Treatment towards the end of the third
period--Continuation of Packs during and after
Desquamation 57

81. Treatment of _torpid Forms_ of scarlatina--Difference
in the Treatment pointed out 58

82. Length of Pack 59

83. Cold Affusions and Rubbing 59

84. Ice-Water and Snow-Bath in malignant cases 59

85. Wine and Water, &c., if no reaction can be obtained 60

86. Ablutions and Rubbing with Iced-Water or Snow 61

87. Wet Compress 61

88. Ventilation all-important 61

89. Continuation of Packs--Convalescence 62

90. Mineral Acids, in case of severe sore Throat 62

91. Putrid Symptoms--Gargle--Solution of Chloride of Soda--Drink:
Chlorate of potass--Liquor calcii chloridi 62

92. _Treatment of Affections of the Nervous Centres_ 63

93. 94. Sitz-bath, anchor of safety 64

95.-97. Cases 65-68

98. 99. Impossibility of answering for the issue of every
typhoid case 71

100. Is Water applicable in all typhoid cases? 71

101.-109. Rules for the application of water in typhoid cases 71-73

110.-112. Illustrations 73-78