132 THE HOMK, FARM AND WSINKSS < 'YrLOl'.KHIA. 



ful. Or a mixture of citrate of potash and Roclielle salt may be given in 

 an effervescing form. If the fever be of low type, with brown tongue and 

 failing powers, large doses of chlorate of potash will be useful, and stimu- 

 lants will be required. Yelk of eggs beaten up with wine is excellent in 

 such cases. Purgatives, as a rule, are not required ; if employed they 

 should be mere laxatives, remembering the diarrhoea which usually sets in 

 toward the close of the disease. In cases attended with much nervous 

 excitability and convulsions or delirium, bromide of potassium in full doses 

 will be useful. This drug will also procure sleep, and is better for the 

 purpose than any opiate. Sudden recession of the rash attended with an 

 onset of delirium should be met by plunging the child into a bath contain- 

 ing mustard, and leaving it in until the surface becomes red, which usually 

 occurs in a few minutes. The child should then be rolled in a blanket, 

 and the strength supported by nutritious diet, and stimulants are needed. 

 For laryngitis, a sponge wrung out of very hot water should be applied 

 over the larynx, and inhalation of steam encouraged. Pneumonia will 

 call for a stimulating embrocation over its site, and the administration of 

 stimulants, expectorants carbonate of ammonia with senega is the best. 



Lung and indeed all complications occurring during the early stages are 

 best treated by endeavouring, with external stimulants, e.g., the mustard 

 bath, and internal gentle diaphoretics, to get the rash thrown out freely. 

 Later on this is, of course, inadmissible, and the strength must be sup- 

 ported in every way. 



As the disease declines the diet may be more solid, and tonics will be of 

 service. Convalescence from measles is often slow, and as discharges from 

 the ears, eyes, and nose are not uncommon, sea-air is very beneficial in re- 

 establishing the health. Such discharges will require astringent lotions 

 and the use of cod-liver oil and steel. 



SCAELATDJA. 



An acute specific disease febrile, contagious, and infectious, and accom- 

 panied by a peculiar eruption of the skin. After a period of incubation 

 varying according to different authors at from four to forty days, and 

 probably averaging from four to six days, there appears in children vomit- 

 ing ; in older persons sore throat, and the onset is usually sudden. It is 

 common for adults to be able to fix the hour in which the sore throat be- 

 gan. In children severe vomiting often prognosticates severe throat affec- 

 tion. Next there is noticed fever, a frequent pulse, commonly 130-170, 

 a flushed face, a high temperature (103 or 104 degrees F., even on the first 



