150 Remarks on the Treatment of the Measles. 



sles, unless induced by too warm a regimen. I used 

 no remedy for this glandular affection, except, in a few- 

 instances, the volatile liniment. It commonly disap- 

 pears in five or six days. I must not neglect to in- 

 stance two cases which fully empower us to practice 

 after this novel method. There were children, between 

 four and five years of age, who, while the rubeolous 

 eruption reddened their whole bod}-, ran into the street 

 during a heavy fall of snow, and continued there for some 

 time, yet they recovered speedily. After such convinc- 

 ing proofs, who will not believe? Every day fresh cases 

 present themselves to confirm this cold method of treats 

 ment, and condemn the warm. Upon the whole, I 

 consider the measles, if treated upon the strict anti- 

 phlogistic plan from their first eruption, to be as harm- 

 less a disease as the most triffling cutaneous affection. 



There has been considerable discussion, and more 

 anxiety to ascertain whether the measles cannot be pro- 

 pogated by the clothing of a person not infected, who is 

 in the habit of frequenting houses in which the disease 

 prevails. Without deciding on the question, I will 

 give you a case. A child, two weeks old, was seised 

 •with the measles. Neither the mother nor child had ever 

 been out of the house, nor had any person afflicted with 

 measles entered it, since the birth; but the aunt, in 

 whose family this disease prevailed, daily visited the 

 sick woman. Query. Did the aunt convey the infec- 

 tion in her clothing? 



I must call your attention to another fact. The 

 measles made their appearance in my father's family, 



