This section is from the book "Medical Consultation Book, A Pharmacological And Clinical Book Of Reference", by G. P. Hachenberg. Also available from Amazon: Medical consultation book.
Name. | Period of Incu-bation. | Occurrence of Eruption. | Character of Eruption. | Fading or Disappearance of Eruption. | Duration of illness. |
Scarlatina - Scarlet | 4 to 10 days. | Usually 2d or 3d day of fever, | Bright scarlet and diffused. | Fifth day of fever commonly. | 8 to 15 days |
Fever. (Presents a great variety of ir-regular forms.) | (within 36 hours of actual commencement of illness.) | ||||
Rubeola. ....................... | 10 to 14 days. | Fourth day of fever, or after 72 hours of illness. | Small red dots like flea bites; crescentic. | On seventh day of fever. | 6 to 10 days |
Rubella....... | 7 to 14 days. | Fourth to sixth day. | Like measles, but less -distinct; patches more irregular, and brightest near center. | Fourth day after appearance of-ten desquamates in bran-like scales, but is uncertain. | 8 to 10 days |
Rotheln. | |||||
Variola ....................... | 12 days. | Third day of fever. | Small red pimples, becoming vesicular and subsequently pustular; umbilicated. | Pustules mature on 8th or 9th day; scabs follow on 10th or 12th following, falling off two days later. | 14 to 21 days |
Varicella..................... | 4 days. | Second day of fever. | Small rose pimples, becoming vesicles. | Slight scab forms on fourth day of fever. | 6 to 7 days |
Chicken-pox. | |||||
Erysipelas................. | 3 to 7 days. | Second or third day. | Diffuse redness and swelling. | Uncertain. | Uncertain. |
Typhus Fever............... | 1 to 12 days. | Fourth to eighth day. | Mulberry color, usually over | Uncertain. | 14 to 21 days |
Ship Fever. | abdomen. | ||||
Typhoid Fever.............. | 10 to 14 days, or sometimes sud-denly. | Seventh or fourteenth day. | Rose colored spots, few in num-ber and far apart. | Uncertain (may be wholly want-ing). | 20 to 30 days |
Enteric Fever. |
 
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