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Then cover its abdomen with some dry flcannel. Take a well folded bed sheet 

 and put it in boiling water; wring it out and put this over the whole body and 

 wait. The hot cloth will perhaps require repeated heating; according to the 

 severity of the case and its stage of progress. Perspiration will commence in the 

 child in from 10 minutes to 2 hours. The child then is saved; it soon falls 

 asleep. The hot, wet sheet must be continued, however, till perspiration takes 

 place. Soon after the child awakes it shows slight symptoms of returning in- 

 clinations for food; help its bowels, if necessary, with injections of oil, soap 

 and water, and its recovery will be as steady as the growth of a green-house 

 plant, if well treated. Of course if the child is already dying nothing can 

 save it. With this treatment I will guarantee that not one in a hundred chil 

 dren with scarlet fever will die." 



Remarks. — I once succeeded in curing scarlet fever in one of my own chil- 

 dren, before I had read medicine, by the cold pack, or sheet, but I should not 

 try it again — I know the hot is better — the strain or struggle of the system 

 being much less, and consequently the most safe and satisfactory. Tliere is no 

 doubt of the value of the foregoing treatment, but any of the others may be 

 tried, according to the conveniences to be obtained in different places. 



5. Scarlet Fever and Small Pox— Successful Treatment.— 

 Dr. W. Fields, of Wilmington, Delaware, says to one of the medical journals: 



" Having had much experience in the cure of scarlet fever and small pox 

 of the most malignant type, I would thank you, for the sake of humanity, to 

 publish a recipe, which, if faithfully carried out, will cure 45 cases out of every 

 50, without calling on a physician. 



I. Scarlet Fever. — " For adults give 1 table-spoonful of brewers' yeast in 

 3 table-spoonfuls of water, 3 times a day ; and if the throat i^ much swollen gar- 

 gle with the yeast, and apply the yeast to the throat as a poultice; mix with 

 Indian meal. Use plenty of catnip tea to keep the eruption out on the skin for 

 several days. 



II. Small Pox. — " Use the above doses of yeast 3 times a day, and milk 

 diet throughout the disease. Nearly every case can be cured vdthout leaving a 

 pock mark." 



Remarks. — I have had this used, in scarlet fever, with very great satisfaction. 



6. Scarlet Fever— Length of Time Dangerous to Others.— 

 In this disease the parent and the school teacher are often concerned to know 

 how long a time must elapse before it is safe to admit those who have had the 

 disease to mingle with other children, or with the family, and go to school. 



For a month, at least, the body of a scarlet fever patient is casting off 

 scales, or particles, from the skin. The nose, throat, bowels and kidneys are 

 also throwing off poisonous matter for this length of time, which will commu- 

 nicate the disease to others. The chief danger, however, is from the skin, as 

 this is the main outlet for the blood poison to escape, and every scale or parti- 

 cle of dry dust from the skin carries the infection. 



Therefore greasing the patient, by rubbing a bacon rind over them, which, 

 by some, has been recommended as beneficial to the patient, will certainty do 

 this good, i. e. it will keep these minute scales from rising into the air, and thuB 

 prevent the communication of the disease to others from this source. But e. 

 Dr. Ckapin, la a comiaunication to the Brief, of St, Louis, informs it» reft<?.era 



