28 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 



compkted: but sometimes continue much longer, probably from the itching 

 and smarting of the vesicles. Though resembling some other eruptive diseases 

 in its rise and decline, it is not contagious, and persons may have it more than 

 once The disease, in general, is slight and free from danger. Remedy, page 

 192. 



SMALL-POX, — Symptoms. — The patient is seized with coldness and 

 Bhiverings, which soon abate, and are then followed by a hot stage, lasting for two 

 or three days; during which, children are liable to sickness and vomiting, to 

 starting in their sleep, or to epileptic tits; and adults are disposed to sweating. 

 Towards the end of the third day, the eruption appears, and increases during 

 the fourth day. It commonly appears first on the face, then on the lower parts, 

 and is completed over the whole body on the fifth day. The fever generally 

 abates about the coming out of the eruption; the sickness, vomiting, fits, and 

 other oppressive symptoms go off; and the patient is, for the time, free from 

 uneasiness. The eruption appears in small red sjwts, hardly rising above the 

 skin, but which by degrees form pimples. On the fifth or sixth day a small 

 vesicle, containing a colorless fluid, appears on top of each pimple These get 

 broader on the seventh day; and about the eighth are raised into round pustules. 

 These pustules are surrounded witli a circular inflamed border; and as they 

 increase in size, about tlie eighth day the face is considerably swelled, and the 

 eye-lids are sometimes completely closed. The matter in the pustules now 

 becomes thick and while, or yellowish, exactly resembling the matter of an 

 abscess On the 11th day the swelling of the face subsides, and the pustules 

 appear quite full. Remedy, pages 64, 68, 70, 71, 72. 



STOMACH, INFLAMMATION OP —Symptoms.— The symptoms 

 of inflammation of the stomach are, acute pain, heat, and tension in the region 

 of that organ, great increase of oain when anything is swallowed, vomiting, great 

 and sudden depression of strength, a small pulse, thirst, restlessness and anxiely- 

 Remedy. page. 251. 



ST. VITUS' DANCE.— /S^mpfoww.— This disease is chiefly confined 

 to children and youth between the ages of eight and fourteen. But few cases 

 occur after puberty. The complaint affects both the muscles and the limbs. 

 It excites curious antics. A few of the muscles of the face or limb* 

 begin their mischievous pranks by slight twitches, which, by degrees, 

 become more energetic, and spread to other parts. The face is twisted into all 

 kinds of ridiculous contortions, as if the patient were making mouths at some- 

 body. The hands and arms do not remain in one position for a moment. In 

 attempting to carry food to the mouth, the hand gets part way, and is jerked 

 back, starts again, and darts to one side, then to th« other, then mouthwarc* 

 again; and each movement is so quick, and nervous and darting, and diddling, 

 that ten to one the food drops into tlie lap. If the attempt be made to run out 

 the tongue, it is snatched back with the quickness of a serpent's, and the jaws 

 snap together like a fly trap. The lower limbs are in a state of perpetual did- 

 dle; the feet shuffle with wonderful diligence upon the floor, as if inspired with 

 a ceaseless desire to dance. Remedy, page 130. 



