. The diseases of children : medical and surgical. tinal tonsillitis. 254 The Specific Fevers Maligrnant Scarlet Pever.—In some cases death occurs very rapidly,perhaps within twenty-four hours, though this is rare. The most rapid casewhich has come under our notice was that of a girl of twenty months. Scarlet Fever rapidly fatal.—She was noticed not to take her dinner well, and vomitedafter her tea; her temperature, which had been normal in the morning, had risen to 103°by 53o (fig. 51 a)\ at 7 the pulse was i5o, the tonsils were enlarged, and there wasa very faint rash over the body ; sh
. The diseases of children : medical and surgical. tinal tonsillitis. 254 The Specific Fevers Maligrnant Scarlet Pever.—In some cases death occurs very rapidly,perhaps within twenty-four hours, though this is rare. The most rapid casewhich has come under our notice was that of a girl of twenty months. Scarlet Fever rapidly fatal.—She was noticed not to take her dinner well, and vomitedafter her tea; her temperature, which had been normal in the morning, had risen to 103°by 53o (fig. 51 a)\ at 7 the pulse was i5o, the tonsils were enlarged, and there wasa very faint rash over the body ; she was removed the same evening by the resident medicalofficer, Dr. Kershaw, to the fever ward. Next morning the rash had disappeared, thetonsils were enlarged with a patch of exudation on one of them, her pulse and respirationswere rapid, but she did not seem extremely ill. She gradually became worse, the facecyanosed, respiration gasping, and pulse failing ; she died soon after 5 , twenty-fourhours after the initial symptom of ^m^h£^5^S^B^5^S^5SS^B^5i5B ^SMJ^S^S^B^S^S^S^SiHHiHi^vHiiH^H
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