The diseases of infants and children . to the outHne of a map,while the term wandering rash indicates the characteristic constantlychanging appearance and position. Several patches are usually presentat one time, often partially fusing into each other, and new ones mayform as the older disappear, and perhaps spread again over the regionsfirst attacked. There are no subjective S3aiiptoms produced by the lesions, and thedisease is entirely harmless. The individual patches persist about aweek, but the course as a whole is essentially chronic, lasting sometimesmonths or years. No treatment is need
The diseases of infants and children . to the outHne of a map,while the term wandering rash indicates the characteristic constantlychanging appearance and position. Several patches are usually presentat one time, often partially fusing into each other, and new ones mayform as the older disappear, and perhaps spread again over the regionsfirst attacked. There are no subjective S3aiiptoms produced by the lesions, and thedisease is entirely harmless. The individual patches persist about aweek, but the course as a whole is essentially chronic, lasting sometimesmonths or years. No treatment is needed, nor is any effective. DISEASES OF THE SALIVARY GLANDS Malformations of the salivary glands are of very uncommonoccurrence, among them being a defective formation and a congenitalsalivary fistula. Tumors are rarely encountered. Concretions may rarely. Fig. 233.—Bilateral Secondary Suppurative Parotitis after Typhoid in a boy of 11 years, in the Childrens Ward of the University Hospital,Philadelphia. be found in any of the salivary ducts, or, less often, in the glands them-selves. Neuhof ^ could collect but 7 instances of the disease in children, towhich he added 3 others. A primary purulent sialo-adenitis of the sub-maxillary or sublingual glands is occasionally seen in the first weeks ormonths of life (Mikulicz and Kiimmell).^ The parotids are not is swelling of the glands, febrile symptoms develop, and pus isdischarged through the ducts. Often distinct abscess-formation prognosis is usually good. Ranula.—The title is employed to designate a cystic formationin the mucous glands or the sublingual salivary glands. It is only rarely 1 Amer. Journ. Dis. Child., 1916, XI, 232. 2 Die Krankh. d. Mundes, 1898, 228.
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