Remarks on the Treatment of the Measles. 149 



walk out of doors in any kind of weather. The only 

 medicine I gave, was a preparation of equal parts of 

 Pulv. Jalapii, and purified Nitre; of this fifteen grains 

 were given, night and morning, to a child eighteen 

 months or two years old, and so in proportion to age, 

 from the commencement of the eruption, for two or 

 three days. This mode equalled my most sanguine 

 expectations; it reduced the febrile symptoms so com- 

 pletely, that, in two or three days, my adult patients 

 were enabled to attend to their avocations, and the 

 younger ones relieved from every dangerous symptom; 

 nay, some of them were not confined an hour. I have 

 had upwards of forty patients, of different ages and con- 

 stitutions, all of whom were treated on this plan, and 

 are now well. There is no weakness left upon the 

 lungs, as we might have apprehended. On the con- 

 trary, those persons afflicted with this disease, and 

 who have been treated in the warm method, with saf- 

 fron-tea, hot toddy, &c, have a constant cough, and 

 other pneumonic symptoms ; and many wretched exam- 

 ples are now to be seen of this injurious practice. I 

 have not found it necessary to bleed but in two cases, 

 to both of which I was called twenty-four hours after 

 the eruption, and who had been kept warm, and upon 

 the cordial and sudorific plan. After venesection, 

 they were put upon the cold treatment, and recovered 

 in a few days. The measles, this year, in my observa- 

 tion, have universally been accompanied by the cynan- 

 che tonsillaris; though, I must confess, this latter dis- 

 order attacked persons who were not affected with mea- 

 sles : but in no instance have I seen the scarlatina angi- 

 nosa attendant, nor do I think it a concomitant of mea- 



