Scarlet Bean
or SCARLET RUNtal plant. as a green vegetable or as an ornamenmultiflorus, a native of Mexico, cultivated as a green vegetable or as an ornamental plant. ways attended during a part of its course by a rash and by sore throat. Sometimes only one of these features is well marked, sometimes both. Though persons of all ages are susceptible to it, it is eminently a disease of children. It is infectious and contagion may be carried by clothing, school-books, etc. measles it rarely attacks a person more Like smallpox or than once.
It usually comes on with The eruplowed by more or less of fever, restlesslowed by more or less of fever, restlesstion appears on the second or third day and occasionally by vomiting. The erupvomiting. The tion appears on the second or third day in the form of closely aggregated points about the size of a pin's head. The period duction of new epidermis, follows in two or three days. marked on the face.
The eruption is most seriously involved, the tonsils becoming swollen with catarrhal pharyngitis, tena- The throat is cious mucous secretion, and œdema, with cious mucous secretion, great difficulty in swallowing. Inflamon, and edema, with mation of the parotids and other glands often occurs, with suppuration and abscess, destroying the cell tissues, with sloughing, and occasionally fatal hemorrhage.
Physicians have generally distinguished three different varieties of scarlet fever; viz., S. simplex, in which there is a florid three different varieties of scarlet fever; rash and little or no affection of the throat; S. anginosa, in which both the skin and the throat are decidedly implicated; and S. maligna, in which the skin and the throat are decidedly imstress of the disease falls on the throat. stress of the disease falls on the throat. ease, and deviates only slightly from a state of health. Scarlatina is also dangerous from its tendency to give rise to gerous from its tendency to give rise to ulcers, various forms of scrofula, etc.
The kidneys are more affected in this disease than any other organ, nephritis being a common accompaniment, and dropsy a very frequent sequel. It is very a long time, and tending to attack every member of a family not protected by a previous attack. Its regular course is from two to three weeks, the period of about three weeks from the commence SCARRON in adults suffering from organic diseases, ment of that process. It is most fatal in adults suffering from organic diseases, or when complications exist. There is no known specific for this formidable malady.