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is also the testimony of many who, on my advice, 

 have given it a good trial under similar cirou in- 

 stances. To me it is evident that this gre 

 modifies the whole virulence of the attack, whereas 

 nose, ear, or kidney complications I have not kn 

 when used as directed. 



The treatment which I advocate has a direct 



tion of . 



bearing on the professionally important question 



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of medical fees. In the usual run of scarlet fever 

 cases at the present time a scarlet fever case means 

 a single visit plus a notification fee. By ; 

 method, which means retaining the patients in 

 their own homes, it means many visits and close 

 watching of the patient for some time. Finaix i- 

 ally, therefore, to the medical profession it means 

 a great gain, and this is a point which, to the 

 medical man, is naturally of some importance. 

 It is a point worthy of consideration, and ought 

 to commend it to medical men. 



The economy I need hardly add that, nationally consid< 

 treatment, this system means a saving of untold amount. 

 A medical officer of health said to me that he 

 had some thirty cases" of scarlet fever cau-ed ly 

 milk infection. Isolating them cost over 300. 

 Another, when examining these cases at Ilfonl, 

 said that even in his district (60,000 to 70,000 

 inhabitants) this would mean a saving of many, 

 many thousands of pounds annually. A third 

 scarlet fever hospital superintendent said that for 



