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freely with it, continuing or renewing the application until relief is had. If It 

 occasion smarting more than the patient can bear, the liquid may be diluted 

 with water. 



CHICKEN POX.— Chicken-pox is an eruptive disease which affects 

 children and occasionally adults. It is attended only with slight constitutional 

 disturbance, and is therefore neither a distressing nor dangerous affection. The 

 eruption first appears on the body, afterwards on the neck, the scalp, and lastly 

 on the face. It appears on the second or third day after the attack, and is suc- 

 ceeded by vesicles containing a transparent fluid. These begin to dry on the 

 fifth, sixth or seventh day. This disease may be distinguished from variola 

 and varioloid by the shortness of the period of invasion, the mildness of the 

 symptoms and the absence of the deep, funnel-shaped depression of the ves- 

 icles, so noticeable in variola. The main distinctions between chicken-pox and 

 small-pox are the absence or extreme mildness of the premonitory fever iu the 

 former disease, and the form and contents of the vesicles ; those of the latter 

 eruption being filled with dark matter, and having, invariably, a depression In 

 the center. 



Treatment — Ordinarily very little treatment is required. It is best to use 

 daily an alkaline bath, and as a drink, the tea of pleurisy-root, catnip or other 

 diaphoretics, to which is added from half to a spoonful of extract of smart- 

 weed, or the patient should be put upon sviare diet; this, and a dose or two of 

 some cooling aperient, as rhubarb or magnesia, is generally all that is neces- 

 sary; but should the febrile symptoms run high, give a saline draught, as the 

 following: Carbonate of potash, 1 scruple; citric or tartaric acid, 15 grains; 

 essence of cinnamon, % a dram; syi-up of orange peel, 1 dram; water, 10 

 ounces. Shake, and drink while sparkling a wineglassful as a refrigerant. To 

 make it effervescing, add the acid after the draught is poured out. Give 

 plenty of cooling drink, and, if the bowels are at all obstinate, emollient injec- 

 tions. Care must be taken that the skin is not irritated by scratching— as it is, 

 painful and troublesome sores may be produced — and also that the patient does 

 not take a chill. If these precautions are observed, little or no danger is to be 

 apprehended from chicken-pox. 



YELLOW FEVER. — This disease is peculiar to hot climates and is a 

 species of typhus, which takes its name from one of the symptoms, but which, 

 However, is not an essential one. It is probably caused by a vitiated state of 

 the atmosphere arising from decayed vegetable or animal substances, in hot, 

 sultry weather. It is very contagious and an epidemic. 



Symptoms. — Costiveness, dull pain in the right side, defect of appetite, flat- 

 ulence, perverted tastes, heat in the stomach, giddiness or pain in the head; 

 dull, watery, yellow eye; dim or imperfect vision, hoarseness, slight sore 

 throat, and the worst features of typhus. 



Treatment.— In this disease, good nursing is indispensable. Let the 

 patient have perfect rest and quietness, in a well ventilated room. In the early 

 stages of the disease, the diet must be confined to preparations of sago, arrow- 

 root, barley, etc. ; but as the disease advances, give animal broths made of lean 



