Download or read book The Saint Louis Medical Reporter, Vol. 3 written by Oscar F. Potter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Saint Louis Medical Reporter, Vol. 3: A Semi-Monthly Record of Medicine and Surgery; March 1, 1868 Before this boy had left his bed, a sister, four years old, and a brother, three years old, were attacked. They also were nu protected by vaccination. The symptoms in both were severe; but especially so in the boy, in whom the eruption was more generally con uent than in any case which Dr. Black has yet seen during the present epidemic. The face was one mass of eruption, and, in the vesicular stage, so coherent were the vesi cles on the sides of the nose, that they formed large blisters. Such, too, was the condition of the soles of the feet. Whilst the surface of the rest of the body was so occupied by the eruption that a free space could scarcely be found. The eruption on the face of the girl was semi-con uent, but distinct on the remainder of the body. Both patients occupied separate beds in the same room, which was kept perfectly dark during the necessary pe riod. Lard was freely applied to the faces of both, but especially to that of the boy, who, during the rising of the peck, frequently rubbed his face with his hands. Dr. Black was afraid that this interference would produce pitting, but such was not the case. Both patients made an uninterrupted recovery; there1 54 Address on the Decent State of Therapeutics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."