. When to send for the doctor : and what to do before the doctor comes . octor, eventhough there may be no sign of appears within twelve to thirty-- six hours after the child is stricken, and 87 WHEN TO SEND is found first upon the neck and appears to be made up of very smallbright-red points, that disappear ifpressure is made upon them. In mildattacks no rash appears on the face. Asit covers the body, the parts that arecovered most thickly are the groin andarmpits and the buttocks. A distinguishing feature of scarletfever is the so-called strawberrytongue. The little elevat
. When to send for the doctor : and what to do before the doctor comes . octor, eventhough there may be no sign of appears within twelve to thirty-- six hours after the child is stricken, and 87 WHEN TO SEND is found first upon the neck and appears to be made up of very smallbright-red points, that disappear ifpressure is made upon them. In mildattacks no rash appears on the face. Asit covers the body, the parts that arecovered most thickly are the groin andarmpits and the buttocks. A distinguishing feature of scarletfever is the so-called strawberrytongue. The little elevations or pointsseen always on the healthy tongue be-come swollen and extremely red; at thesame time there exists a thick white fur or coating; the red points show-ing through this give the appearance,and therefore the name, of straw-berry tongue. Many rashes resemble that of scar-latina, among them nettle-rash and thedrug eruptions already described; butin none of these is there found the ab-rupt onset, nor the peculiar conditionof scaling that always terminates the 88. FOR THE DOCTOR disease. It is during this stage of peel-ing that scarlatina is most activelycontagious. Scarlet fever is dreaded as much forits after-effects as for any of its acutesymptoms. These are infections of theears, of the joints, and acute inflamma-tion of the kidneys. The resulting eartrouble is so serious that one eminentmedical authority has collected statis-tics of over five thousand deaf-mutes,of whom nearly six hundred owed theircondition to scarlet fever. Another au-thority has found that from 6 to 10 percent, of the children attacked with scar-latina developed an acute Brights dis-ease that was not readily curable. Chicken=pox. Chicken-pox is also one of the mildereruptive fevers of childhood. Here, asin German measles, it is apt to take ahousehold by surprise with its suddencoming. The child may be a little 89 WHEN TO SEND drowsy and may have an apparentlyfresh cold for a day or two. Uponwaking
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