Remarks on the Treatment of the Measles. 151 



and in my own. The strict antiphlogistic plan was ad- 

 hered to. The persons (one in each family) recovered 

 rapidly ; yet the disease was not communicated to any 

 of the rest of the families, though there were several in 

 each who had never been attacked with it, and though 

 there was a free communication between the indisposed 

 and healthy. Does this imply that the cool regimen 

 destroys the infection of the measles? for we see this 

 complaint extending to every member of a family not 

 previously infected, when the hot or moderately cool re- 

 gimen is adhered to. 



However new this treatment may appear, it is never- 

 theless so true, and supported by such superior suc- 

 cess, that I am impelled, as a duty I owe mankind, to 

 divulge it. Errors are every day detected, and super- 

 stitious prejudices and visionary notions must ulti- 

 mately yield to all-powerful Truth. 



Baltimore, May 4th, 1808. 



XXI. On the Use of the Vitriolic Ether, in a Case of 

 Strangulated Hernia. In a letter to the Editor, 

 from G. C. Shattuck, M. D., of Boston. 



Sir, 



SHOULD you think the following case, in proof 

 of the efficacy of Vitriolic Ether in Strangulated Hernia, 

 worthy of a plan in your Medical and Physical Journal, 

 you are at liberty to insert it. 



