AND FAMILY DISPENSATORY, 137, 
If the meatles turn too foon of a pale colour, it is an unfavourable fymptom, as are 
alfo great weaknefs, yomiting, reftleffnefs, and difficulty of fwallowing. Purple or 
black fpots appearing among the meafles are very unfavourable. When a conti- 
nual cough, with hoarfenefs, fucceeds the difeafe, there i is reafon to fafpect an ap- 
proaching confumption of the lungs. 
_~CURE..---Our bufinefg in this difeate is is to affift ethane by. proper cordials in 
throwing out the morbific matter, if her efforts be too languid; but when they are 
too violent they muft be retrained by evacuations, and cool diluting liquors, &c. 
We ought likewife to endeavour to appeafe the moft urgent fymptoms, as the 
cough, teftleffnefs, and difficulty of breathing. A cool regimen is neceffary here 
as well as in the {mall-pox. The food too muft be light, and. the drink diluting, 
The moft fuitable liquors are decoctions of liquorice with marfh-mallow roots and 
farfaparilla, infufions of linfeed, or of the flowers of elder, balm-tea, clarified whey, 
barley- -water, and fuch like. Bleeding is commonly neceffary, particularly when — 
the fever runs high, with difficulty of breathing, and great oppreffion of the breaft. 
But, if the difeafe be of a mild kind, bleeding may be omitted. If at the turn of 
the difeafe the fever affumes new vigour, and there appears great danger of fuffoca- 
tion, bleeding mutt be. repeated according to the: patient’s ftrength, and blifters mutt 
be applied, with a view to prevent the load from being thrown on the lungs, where 
if an inflammation fhould fix itfelf, the patient’s life will be in imminent danger. In 
cafe the meafles fhould fuddenly difappear, the patient n mult be fupported with wine 
and cordi Is. ‘Blitters mutt be applied to the legs and arms, ‘and the body rubbed. 
allover ‘with warm flannels. ‘Should a cough, with difficulty of breathing, and 
other fymptoms of a confumption, remain after the meafles, finall quantities of 
blood may be'frequently let at proper intervals, as the patient’s ftrength and contti- 
tution will permit. Ore ought likewife to drink affes milk, to remove toa free air, 
and ¢ to ride daily on horfeback. 
ox THE SCARLET FEVER: © : 
Hit illed from ‘the cbibar of the ents fkin, which ap-. 
“THE fearlet: fever is fo call 
pears as if it were tinged with red. wine. ‘lt begins, like other fevers, with coldnefs.. 
and fhivering, without any yiolent ficknefs. Afterwards the skin is covered with , 
red fpots, which are broader, more florid, and lefs uniform, than the meafles. They 
continue two or three days, and then atest rg after which thecuticle, or fcarf- he? 
falls 7S aia, so 
‘CURE. ---There i is ; feldom any occafion’ for ‘medicine in this difeafe, unlefs it i is: 
attended with putrid or malignant | fymptoms, in which cafe it is always dan; ia 
the j patient is then not only affected with coldnefs ‘and fhivering, bur with Janguo 7 
35- Nu ficknefs, 
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