Dengue, or Break-bone Fever
■>V.-.. yyr \. ■/.; ...» : ■■■■ ;,-i--'v; :.,-;:: ;;•- We extract the following from Bee--ton's Medical Dictionary regarding this disease ; which 'is iio w prevalent in varibhs'p^rtWofthecbiod^ or. break-bone fever" is the name" of a diseas'4'fhat has, b'n sevlailil'bccasioift, recently : , made l its appearance ihjtjife. sou^ern' states , of North America and the. East, and West^^ ; lndiies,,7a^dpis characterised as a very severe iniflammatory ifever, accompanied with, rheumatic pains in the joints and muscles, and a cutaneous eruption that usually makes its appearance" upon ' the third or fourth da^/ 'Though very severe, it is not of ten fatal, and ustially t'erf minates hi a few, days with a copious discharge . of -perspiration. /It is re-: garded as scarlatina, combined with severe rheumatic pains in the limbs and joints; It . demands no special treatment beyond opiates to relieve the pain, and purgatives, or an emetic, to subdue the fever. - : - ■• • • - We learn that there- are several cases of "the dandy fever" in Feilding and in Palmerston.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 46, 6 October 1887, Page 3
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160Dengue, or Break-bone Fever Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 46, 6 October 1887, Page 3
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