PREVENTION OF SCARLET FEVER 



I had myself employed twenty-five years ago. 



ii failure, however, set my work back for yean 



Carefully t eating and proving afresh the pore 



eucalyptus oil with 10 per cent carbolic for the 



at. Doubtless others had the same experience 



of failure as myself, e.g. Dr. Priestley, and this 



would account for the Oleusaban preparation being 



only mentioned twice, while not used by any of 



eds of experts and other medical men 



l>een in communication with me. Dr. 



k, may well say "Save me from 



my friends " ; for one friend who wrote afterwards, 



British Medical Journal, in support of Dr. 



Curgen ly confirmed what I have written 



re the preparation used by his father twenty yean 



ago. The method, therefore, recommended by 1 >r. 



Curgcnven I tested and renounced, while the con- 



>ion by another line of treatment that "no 



isolation was necessary " I affirmed. I have made 



no claim, as suggested by him, to be the first to 



use either carbolic oil or eucalyptus oil in the 



treatment of scarlet fever. Dr. Logan, of 



pool, used both in an ointment more than twenty 



years ago, and rarely found it fail. All I would 



now say is that 1 have known no one use 10 per 



cent, carbolic oil or pure eucalyptus oil before I 



used them. Carbolic oil I know as having been 



in use over Unity years, an 1 eucalyptus ointment 



for nearly, if not quite, as long. 



