THE CURE OF SCARLET FEVER COMPLICATED WITH ERYSIPELAS AND STREPTOCOCCUS SEPTICEMIA: BY INTRAVENOUS INJECTION OF MERCUROCHROME-220 SOLUBLE

In conjunction with Miss Hill, one of us has reported 1 a series of cases in which septicemias and localized infections had been cured by intravenous injections of mercurochrome-220 soluble. 2 Since this paper appeared, many other patients have been subjected to the same treatment. Most of them were similar to the cases detailed in our paper. The two cases presented here, however, are quite different in type and demonstrate a wider field of usefulness for mercurochrome. The results obtained in a case of very severe scarlet fever with complications and in a second case of streptococcus pneumonia are so striking as to warrant their publication. A short time ago, confident that mercurochrome would be of great value in severe cases of scarlet fever associated with streptococcus infection, which Dochez and others have shown to be the causative agent in scarlet fever, we obtained permission of Dr. Birkhead Macgowan, director