DR. DAY'S TREATMENT OF SCARLET FEVER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 5, 6 January 1876, Page 2

DR. DAY'S TREATMENT OF SCARLET FEVER.

On the 22nd ultimo a number of notes were supplied by Dr Day, of G-eelong, to the Melbourne City'iCqun-. cjil,, showing the results of his treatment of /a number of cases of scarlet fever with ozonic ether and lard. As the % epidemic is now. widespread, we have much pleasure in making; a few extracts, believing they will be found of; great service. . ;The, first case treated Minder the new jsystem. was that, of .a, boy, 13 years of ;age* on the- 7th: April. ; The instructions given by Dr Day, and followed out, were-r^" To be w^ll rubbed over, the n whole -surface of- -the,- body, three times a day^with ozonic ether and t lard, one part to "eight.; the r throat, s which is very sore, to, be' freely gargled 'with 2dr. of ozbnitf'etWeiv mixed iri : -$oz of^water." The sore throat ; was well ipja few daysy and' the l gargle ' discon-: tinned, but the inunctions f with ozbriiev ether and lard were contibued: for three' weeks. Pr t Pay adds~" There were three children and a servant girl iri the house who ; %ad not ' had scarlet Tfe'verj > but they all escaped infection;" ! iThe next case wa"gfthat; ; ofia [; child;tw;ojyears. and a half old. Tbis same -.course wa» successfully ' pursuedj, sand the -disease did not spread. The third case was that of r affi'al© child t; ttiree- years "olftJ" The treatment was—" Inunctions with ozonic ether.and lard for three , weeks ; 4 nothing eise."^ ]^dn4 of 1 inV mates of the house had Had the fever, nor did they catch* it. > Altogether forty-five'' 1 cases are enumerated'? in every one a "good recovery" was .the result: in only one or two instances ; did the disease spread ; all , . the' parents r recovered^ and 4 in' several cases; even .child was nursed,, 'the. did not catch In some esses Dr Day had the walls and flooring of the patients', rooms, brushed over with gasoline, and also had saucers of gasoline placed, in, e.yery room of the house. Referring fed this disinfectant, he say'Sr: "I believe gasoline to'be one of the most valuable atmospheric disinfectants we possess. • When gasoline cannbt be obtained, benzine may '.be* 'used in .its stead.!' It is. also particularly, no|iceable that in a .number of ; cases the ; patients also suffered from pneumonia/ ■ which. yielded to the same treatment, for which Dr Day claims the following 5 advantages ':'— l. The patient during the whole course of the disease is enabled to breath a pure atmosphere, instead of, as under ordinary circumstances, an atmosphere contaminated by the poisonous emanations of his whole body. . 2. That in consequence of the rapidity with which the scarlatina poison is destroyed as it escapes from the surface of the body, desquamation.of the cuticle, with its accompanying danger, seldom occurs. 3.; 3s i places^ in tbie hands of the medical practitioner a positive meansof arresting the spread... of the disease.