Description

This is not a disease; it is a symptom, as it develops in many chronic diseases. It indicates a most pronounced toxin poisoning. It is not unusual for this symptom to present itself in pyemia, septicemia, heart diseases of all kinds, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, cerebro-spinal fever, low forms of fevers, in cases of snakebite, and after the use of certain medicines. It has been known to develop quite extensively after the use of small doses of iodid of potassium.

Treatment

No attention is to be paid to the purpuric symptom. The patient must be fed properly, proper care must be given to the body, and whatever manner of living has superinduced this symptom must be looked after and corrected as quickly as possible. If all people could be treated properly when they are first taken sick, such symptoms would never develop.