Abstract
For the last forty of the over fifty years of my practice in the medical profession, I have not doubted the contagiousness of scarlet fever. I will give a very few of the many evidences I have had to justify my conclusions. My observations have been over several hundred cases of scarlet fever, and I do not remember of a case where the invasion has been less than the seventh or the eighth day after the exposure. In cases where I have been called to attend a case evidently contracted away from home, and others of the family predisposed by not having had the disease, have advised preparation to be made for the care of the others, that would probably be taken sick in eight days after, and dieting recommended, to commence in six days from the day of exposure, as I have often observed a morbid appetite for one
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