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10 per cent every two hours for the fint twenty- 



four hours. 



Ian of treatment I have never known 

 any nose, ear, or kidney o result the 



same time it greatly modifies the severity of the 

 attack. I have always given careful injunctions 

 to avoid cold for three weeks, and therefore to have 

 the children warmly clad. 



At first I only allow soda-water or hot water 

 and milk in equal quantities. In a few days 

 light diet, and by the tenth day their ordinary 

 meals. 



The blessing of this plan of treatment, which 

 I most highly and confidently recommend to 

 medical men for use in private families, in board* 

 ing-schools, and wherever children are congregated 

 together, cannot be over-estimated. The state- 

 ment in the language of Mr. J. Brendon Cur- 

 genven, whose work merits the highest praise, 



hat no isolation of the patient in the way now 

 practised is necessary," is more than proved by 

 the above records. 



il years I have adopted the same 



method of treatment in cases of measles. The 



great y found in such is the infections 



nature of the malady before any signs are defi- 



<en, however, the eucalyptus 



011 is used at the earliest possible moment, I have 

 found that it has ei ^topped the epidemic 



