Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-02-16 | Page 6 | You and Your Health

You and Your Health By MORRIS FISHBEIN UHor. Journal f rke Amerie MedlMl AssoeUtt, tad at Hytet. the Health MaejatiM Each winter brings aa Increase In scarlet fever case, but today wa find ourselves in a betterpQ sltlon to control this disease than ever before in the history of me(T lelne. in many ways,ejpiTOodria The disease resembles diphtheria, diph-theria, in many way. Symptom are likely to appear first in the throat It Is an Infectious condition, condi-tion, passed from one parson to another. And It comes on rather suddenly, usually during epidemic that are worse in winter or fall. Most of the cases develop in children between 5 and 12 years of age who usually have been in contact with others who had the disease. As in diphtheria cases, a baby undoubtedly gets In hi blood, from its mother, substance which enable him to resist scarlet scar-let fever from the time of birth until he Is about 1 year of age. Then the resistance begin to wear off. Scarlet fevar I on of those diseases which you are not likely to have a second time. One attack at-tack of the disease helps you build In your body substances which aid you to resist further attacks. TIlH altalfy tjf aTslts ftttftjflit &t 49eaa let fever is rather typical From two to four days after you have been In contact with a scarlet fever victim you develop a chill, then sore throat, with some nausea nau-sea and vomiting. Promptly your pulse becomes rapid. Fever rise as high a 102 er 104 degrees. With this there are the usual symptoms symp-toms of acute infection. Now bright red spots about the site of a pinpoint begin to appear, ap-pear, usually on the neck and chest The eruption spreads rapidly rap-idly over the rest of your body.' Your face also appears red, but ordinarily because of the fever and not the eruption. After two or three days the rash begins to fade, and in about a week your akin is normal in color. The next atep affecting the skin la the peeling or scaling, which take place 10 day to two week after the disease first appear. Great patches of skin may come off the hands and feet; over the rest of the body, the kin usually peels off in small scale, Most people are interested In knowing whether the scales or the akin that peels off is important in spreading acarlet fever. Apparently Appar-ently it does not contain the germ responsible, and will not spread tha disease unless It ha been contaminated con-taminated with secretion of the nose and throat These secretions do contain the germs and will themselves spread the disease or. by contamination of skin, utensils, or other material, aid in the spread. Occasionally teeth, hair, and fingernail may be affected and break down after scarlet fever. ROYAL HOBBY But if English kings have not aa a rule excelled In sports, on of them haa certainly excelled in a hobby. Just now curiosity ia being be-ing directed toward the future of the great stamp collection which George V built up and which he bequeathed to Edward VIIL It was King George's personal property and aa far aa ia known the most valuable single property that he left It la contained In more than 390 volumes at Buckingham Buck-ingham palace and was valued at SI. 250.000 when King George died. King Edward accepted a few gift of recent issues for it, but otherwise other-wise took no Interest in It Sir F.dward Bacon, Ita eurator, said a few days ago, "The collection is still here in the room where King George alwaya kept it, but nothing more can be said about it" It consists of British, Imperial and Egyptian issues only, frem the eaaaya and proofa for the firat adhesive stamp ever Issued, the British penny black of 140, down to the end of King George'a reign. In thia wide field no other collection collec-tion even approachea it for completeness. com-pleteness. Topics of the Time