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ROTHELN. (EPIDEMIC ROSEOLA— GERMAN MEASLES— HYBRID MEASLES, ETC.) BY Physician to J. LEWIS SMITH, M.

Charity Hospital, Physician

ROTHELN

is

it

New

etc.,

York.

little

known

in this country.

I

am

described in any American medical journal

is

Meagre

or treatise.

Infants Hospital,

an epidemic eruptive disease, of rare occur-

rence heretofore, and

not aware that

to

D.,

and

imperfect

descriptions

of

it

have

appeared in some of the British journals, and cases have been quite fully described nent, especially in

and then able

by certain

Germany, rotheln number of years, although the as a distinct disease, or An has, it is a sid, On the conti- occurred now as a mild epidemic, limited to small areas for a consider-only brief descriptions of it British physicians. epidemic of this it, German writers have published and they have hardly yet recognized any thing more than a form of morbilli.

rare and

interesting

malady has recently

am

prevailed in

New York

continent.

In a general practice of more than twenty years,

city,

the

first,

so far as I

extending over a considerable portion of ously observed nothing like

it,

aware, on this

this city, I

had previ-

and other older physicians having

a large general practice, have informed

me

that they consider

it