Note on the after Treatment of Scarlet Fever by Scalded Oatmeal
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As the heading of this Note implies, it is intended here to treat of the subject of the desquamation which follows every case of scarlet fever, however slight, both in regard to its bearings on the patient himself and also those with whom any cast-off particles may come into contact. Take first the process of desquamation. This, as we all know, varies very much in different individuals, and sometimes it is done by particles so fine as to be hardly perceptible; and these are, I think, a very frequent and most certain source of contagion, by means of clothes and otherwise?much more so indeed than the scales as
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