DR DAY'S TREATMENT OF SCARLET FEVER.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 81, 22 January 1876, Page 3

DR DAY'S TREATMENT OF SCARLET FEVER.

I■ :; ■-! '('Hl' M . IJ I U' !IX I 'C KVKO lIA I’ll). The Centra! IL».• ni ot Htii’.it..i having the Local Board (A H ‘Aih ;-i;v -A M Ammrm' copies of <.<t~ ;... ■ A;.y T>- Lay, a‘(l ■• • i-.i(m. <-ii i] ): . fv;.■ i,]’ ‘'liZOUi-' • 'll A-V-m. be VO- olivet/ := ■ <i'V ill.- «am..- . J >.. .-.i'll, ; t> 1 ! is-; : Boa/d O- I Lvlfh A ; -t : ■' ’ii<’i!■'•,'■ l ■ i<ra-.*i uimi* r in At. ■:-n:o:iY ; til.- i arc -s-. .vii- v 1):!-. ;iii. e.'Ad '. : > A .HI It 1. hi Ll L.>v ■ . i, : y i.,' ; i' v iti A. • i; i, !• • C l! Ot .ill’ I: i'-'-’i.' l '. J< • 11« i' ! ■ 11: 1 , :■( tlii‘ .(j,inion oi t v A sA nIA r-i -b" P” s !.v ; Jiy known. Li- Day* paper gi v-y })-)!.-; io] iron llll <■ 11 • ot fioy OHM i ii---, coil" 1 of Um-U! A;, t!t j>TI[>LiS in m-lmAs, >;d I.; ;■.!! ■>; Amrn lie r-vords a t '• a-ovary,” whiiC, in n'-any eAI ■ AYivion was j -.1-: vmA .a i i f.proaajy - to tln* i>i L.■ r diiMivn, persons v.i the hous-, tin; ex.-nptioms cess? v,-iif-r ■ ill’s {rest U wilt was not adopted ;A the oiit-o-i. The ' i-i'HlineiA .’Uiopt-'il by Dr Ley m ; m mmpiy having the whole surface of ‘ho iw'.iy Wo.l I'll 1 ■ io -<I oV;T throe tinier. a day will', a mixture of oz.diic ether and 1:. ’<i ; Amu i.vat. it-:it continued for about three weens. In Revetai o: Ine ease* tli<; pvUe.us vvosv nuiseA liv persons who Inn. not nau s.-arlnl i’cvi'iy hut. tliu mirs-s ui<l not take ihe iniVclton. Li one or two onsnr wln-vr iae turoat vi‘!V ini ordered, in addition, fee h j" of .u-arglo of 2 dial!, of o/oui,; ether mixed With 8 ox. cl water; but the lire of tile V'. v , AO W.'S 'brer.ntJiUie-l in o bw day a tvliou the rbroal ftot v/e;l. _ Tim reun.rks -v added ny \): .Due to the tioLv.*; t. hove ridorrcu “ I,)r ]) iy A inu; for this method of lr •iitiny si-aViet lev.-r tin; followim;' adA'autr.ge;:: “ Jst. The patient. dt-Lny the whole course oft he discus--. i r: enabled to breathe a pure ntuinsplion-, .us ■a : o!, ns under ord’iviiy eir-mnst;-:nees, nn armosphere conta ;o;in("d bv the pi/s-anoin - . cmatiu;.ious from his ov-m bo.-'y. “ 2nd. Timt, in eniisefiueucc c-t i: ,f > i. ;)Liity with v.’li. !i Ac ecoiiauna: n; A-ot ; *is d-sunyed ns it escapes from ii, smihee of il.n' i'ody, dcs<Miauini!on of Lie euth-de, vdih iis ru-cm.ipsnj iiiy danoseldom oeeiuv-. o ;;rd. It places in die Itnnds of the iviedlent r-raetilioiior -•. ■ .(,si,ve merits of anve.iiii.y i-he :- [»i , cad of the d;sor?e. u !)r Day is a’.vcre And. dui’my Lie ;•' 1 fvw yeats, the o'd praeTl'-'O 0> cmctiu i i/.ie bode sot ‘’leA tevev -a.; l lv■ ■; ■ wini so t, hi lAvyod, ate. oilier irren.'v side 1,. 'e'es fiat* !>ceu i’..di r exieusively ’.wived hy im'de’ni pvn.tv tiouois. 1 1. .A-li at. home r.nd i.. (Ins eoioiiV. T!;:s mode of L’-eitni ‘ui. inis be- u siu‘d wilis fife .avowed object (n meclamc : 'v lixiey tie- ]hii:”.ou-cnawd parti' -i’S of eu-ieie, whieli aiv thrown oft* duvny the pen'o-l (if desynematioii, and of thus preventiuy the sjire.ad of llio disease, if.', liov.vv**r. b 'iievn; that ibeir ben. - fi: lid aelii’-ii is im! of a mechanical, but of a purely :i■ Ti»i<■.! nature., ior tie le-s sttcC'-i’ihy: iu deiiionstratiiu; t-o the satisfaction of IVol’esaor .A. S. Tr.ylor and ■eihe;- well kiu-wu men of science ine orev>ous!v tinr' , co;,ms-..-u tael (Siatall fats : ‘,nd (ids possess Lie property of absorb:ny luxvyeu —a substance veuiai’Kiibie for iis power of desti’oying xymodie poisons. Now peroxide of hydrogen is the nciiv ‘ priue-ipie ot the so-called ozonic etl’.er unci whieii does not conlaln a single particle of o/oue, hut is in reality a sirony solution of peroxide of hvdrogen in ether, and it ss m tlio ext;Tna.r indication of this .powerful oxydiser and disinfectant in a concenkaVd for e, that ha relies for the destruction of iho ]iO!Son gonns of such diseases as scarlet fever and smallpox, as they arc given oft Lorn the surface of the body.”