every patient will get well in a few weeks. In the severe cases, 

 vomiting and diarrhoea, become severe, the tongue becomes dry and 

 brown, sleeplessness (with great restlessness), delirium, acute or 

 stupid condition, delirium or delusions of a quiet kind, sometimes 

 hemorrhage from the bowels, inflammation of the lungs, swollen 

 leg with pain in the groin. High temperature ; a thermometer 

 should always be in use. Treatment. (a) Put patient in bed in 

 large cool room, with two beds If possible ; \b) give three pints of 

 milk, with water, during the 24 hours, and one pint of clear soup, 

 ice or cold water to suck ; sponge the body twice a day ; (c) keep 

 food and medicines in another room ; (d) do not taste food before 

 the patient, (i) Headache may be relieved by ice or cold applica- 

 tions to the head, with mustard poultice to nape of neck. (2) 

 Vomiting : Give ice to suck, and small doses of food ; mustard or 

 poultices to stomach. (3) Diarrhoea : Peptonised milk, with lime 

 water ; alum whey, instead of milk ; add one tea spoonful of alum 

 to pint of boiling milk and skim off the whey. (4) Tongue when dry 

 and brown should be cleaned with lemon juice, and ice to suck. (5) 

 Sleeplessness : (a) Ice to head, mustard leaf to nape of neck ; (b) cold 

 sponging. (6) Delirium : See sleeplessness. (7) Hemorrhage : (a) 

 Binder round the abdomen ; (/;) small doses of alum whey or 

 peptonised milk ; (c) stop stimulants, for a time, at least ; (d) 30 

 drops of laudanum at once. (8) Swollen legs : (a) Keep the leg 

 warm with hot bottles, and envelope in wool ; (b) Rest in bed until 

 quiet well. (9) High temperature : (a) Sponge the body with warm 

 water, and then use ice or ice water. When convalescent the 

 patient should remain in bed 10 days after the temperature is 

 normal in the evening, and should, after that time, get a little 

 custard. If the temperature keeps normal the food may be increased 

 very slowly. The temperature should be taken every night, as 

 relapses are very common. 



To AVOID TYPHOID FEVER. (a) Boil all drinking water, or use 

 a Chamberland-Pasteur filter ; (b} avoid drinks of any sort (ice- 

 creams, milk) unless satisfied that they are pure ; (c) take milk only 

 from persons who study cleanliness and have healthy cows ; (d) 

 wash thoroughly all vegetables and fruits ; (e) keep your house and 

 premises clean, and study personal cleanliness ; (/) apply equal parts 

 in saw-dust and lime to the closet pan ; (g) see directions on disin- 

 fectants for those suffering from typhoid fever. 



ASTHMA. Loosen the clothing ; apply mustard to the chest ; 

 foot baths ; give a purge. 



CROUP. (a) Generally occurs in children ; (b) usually at night 

 time the child wakes up gasping for breath. Treatment. (a) 

 Emetics, as one teaspoonful wine of ipecacuanha in warm water 

 every quarter of an hour until vomiting comes on ; tickle back of 

 throat ; (b) apply sponge wrung out of boiling water to the throat ; 

 (c) smart purge ; (d) keep the room warm ; (e) steam the room. 



