A NEW DISEASE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 550, 2 September 1869, Page 2

A NEW DISEASE.

Erom a new medical work, which has yet to pass through the Press, entitled "Diseases Peculiar to the Colony," we (Southland jVcivs) have extracted the following : QTIARTZONIA. Definition.—A contagious and infectious disease, ushered in with severe febrile symptoms, followed by an eruption of scrip, which generally runs its course in a few weeks. Synonym.—Quartz on the brain. Symptoms.—Within a few hours after the first symptoms of fever, such as loss of sleep and appetite, the first form of the eruption appears in the shape of a cheque, upon the subsidence of which, to give place to a receipt, the rapidity of the pulse begins to abate. This, however, is fallacious, as the febrile action shortly takes a turn for the worse, and is accompanied by a genuine eruption of scrip, overwhelming thirst, a morbid craving for stimulants, with great excitement and a fervid imagination ; and under its trying effects, those who have formerly been of a plethoric habit are speedily reduced. Causes.—lnfection, natural tendency to insanity, rumors, rushes and sensational telegrams. Prognosis.—Always attended with danger when epidemic. Eavorable in isolated cases.

Laws of Infection.—The disease is communicable by contagion, inoculation, fomites in the form of amalgam, or through the air. The infection is more powerful than that of other febrile exanthemata, and the infecting distance is considerable, and can only be limited by a defect in postal arrangements. The patient who has once had this disease is at all times liable to a recurrence. The latent period may generally be estimated at the duration of residence in the colony. Terminations.—lncurable pains in the chest, that evidently wear the patient out. Self-destruction, and different forms of lunacy. Treatment.—Palliative. Bleeding, or counter-irritants, as dictated by the symptoms. Seclusion, or change of air.

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