URTICARIA. By Asst.-Surgeon Ram Kishen. I have

read

just

account of two cases of

an

urticaria with intermittent fever, in the December number of the Indian Medical Gazette. The gentleman

the

reporting

tribute them to malaria seen

as

their

number of

large

a

I have

cause.

of urticaria

cases

amongst the out-door patients in

inclined to at-

cases seems

as

well

as

in

pri-

practice, peared with

of which the rash apthe rise of temperature in cases of

intermittent

fever,

vate

some

and

faded away

with the

; but from the treatment which

sweating

the rash I

cures

say that it has no real connection at all with malaria ; a saline purgative is can

generally quite sufficient, while in some cases it is necessary to give cooling alkaline drinks afterwards, as for example, cream of tartar, Siedlitz powder, effervescing draughts, &c., &c. Sometimes an emetic alone is quite sufficient to

cure

The rash is caused genethe presence of an obnoxious substance

the disease.

rally by in the

alimentary

canal.

other anti-malarious served to effect those observed

disappears

drugs

a cure

by

Quinine, arsenic, have

Dr. Neve

been ob"

never

; and in cases

and

resembling

the rash often

before the paroxysms of intermitceased to visit the patient. I

tent fever have

have

it

never seen

while the

patient

during the course of fever taking diaphoretic medi-

is

cines, but the remedies of this class rather tend to relieve it.

and is

around, weather,

The disease is

certainly

seen

all the year in the hot

more common

but I do not think

we

get

more

after the rains when malarious fevers

are

the urticaria in In my opinion like those described by Dr. Neve is a

lent.

I have

concomitant disease.

epidemic of malaire, but

the

fever

by

mentioned

I have heard of it from

who said that he had called it

never

the

name

seen "

Moti

cases

prevacases

mere

seen

an

as

suette

a

Veyd,

it in Marinar and

jhara."

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