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Jan 24, 2023 · The first notable description of what might have been scarlet fever was documented by the Sicilian physician Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia in 1553.
The first unequivocal description of scarlet fever appeared in a book by Joannes Coyttarus of Poitiers, De febre purpura epidemiale et contagiosa libri duo, which was published in 1578 in Paris. Daniel Sennert of Wittenberg described the classical 'scarlatinal desquamation' in 1572 and was also the first to describe the early arthritis ...
Apr 1, 2024 · Key People: George Frederick Dick. Related Topics: rheumatic fever. fever. bacterial disease. Dick test. On the Web: University of Rochester Medical Center - Health Encyclopedia - Scarlet Fever in Children (Apr. 01, 2024) (Show more)
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May 31, 2022 · According to Rolleston (Rolleston, 1928) in his article on the history of scarlet fever, Giovanni Filippo Ingrassias, a Sicilian anatomist and practitioner, wrote in 1553 (Ingrassia, 1553) the first description of a disease termed “rossalia” that was characterized by “numerous spots, large and small, fiery and red, of universal ...
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- 2022/11/19
Abstract. Scarlet fever was one of the first diseases to have an active preventive policy directed against it, and for some late nineteenth-century observers it came to represent a great triumph of preventive medicine. At the mid-century it accounted for some 10,000 deaths per annum in England and Wales. Its principal incidence was on small ...
- The first undoubted description of scarlet fever in medical literature is to be found in a work by John Philip Ingrassias (1510-1580), who was first professor at Naples
Jan 16, 2023 · Show details. Scarlet Fever. Salvatore Pardo; Thomas B. Perera. Author Information and Affiliations. Last Update: January 16, 2023. Go to: Continuing Education Activity. Scarlet fever is a blanching, papular rash, commonly described as a sandpaper rash.
