Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1893 — Oatmeal in Scarlet Fever. [ARTICLE]

Oatmeal in Scarlet Fever.

A writer in the Medical and Cbirurgical Journal, England, states thuthe has for several years bicn in thc.habit of having his patients well sponged over the surface of their bodies, commencing, as a rule, about a week after the appearance of the eruption, and continulpg the process until desquamation is complete, with a mixtureof an ounce of oatmeal to a pint of boiling water; the solution for this purpose being made every day, and used tepid, or at such a temperature as may be comfortably borne by the back of a finger. His reason for using this particular combination is that the gluten In it sticks the scales to each other and to the surface of the body, thus allowing of their being removed from one sponging to another, without the ordinary risk of infecting either atmosphere or clothes, and thus greatly lessening the risk of spreading the disease; in addition to this advantage, the gluten fills up the cracks of the new skin and protects it from cold, as patch after patch becomes bare, and it thus, to say the least, greatly lessens the risk of the dropsy which so often follows upon this disease. Brocades of silk, enriched with gold and silver, made In China, B. C. 17x1.