Excerpt from The Practitioner, Vol. 82: A Medical Journal; January-June, 1909 The facts mentioned above indicate that the mere mor tality of this disease is not great, and does not justify either the public fear of it, or the public expenditure upon it. Nevertheless both these are fully justified on other grounds. For although its mortality may be but slight, and its course in most cases be uneventful, scarlet fever is a variable and treacherous disease. And it ozves these features to the characters of the complications, to which in an unusual degree it is subject, from first to last. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.