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tion of Scarlet Fever, either in appearance or 

 duration. In ordinary cases the eruption re- 

 mains ou^ ahout four days, when the grain of 

 the skin begins to peel off and in a few days 

 more it disappears. As the disease progresses, 

 the tonsils becomes specked with ash colored 

 spots and Ulceration follows. In favorable 

 cases their slugs come off in eight or ten days. 

 If the Patient does not die b}^ the ninth day, 

 he will generally get well under proper man- 

 agement, though it may be three "weeks, in 

 some cases before he recovers. AYhen this dis- 

 ease terminates favorably, all the symptoms 

 generally yiekl, beginning about the fourth day 

 after the eruption appears. The patient is 

 more liable to relapse in this disease than any 

 other, and caution shoukl be used to prevent 

 a relapse. Parents would do w^ell to watch its 

 first appearance and keep their children from 

 its influence as much as possible ilsing prevent- 

 atives, such as keeping a tar plaster around the 

 neck, keeping gum camphor, a little asafoetida 



and a small piece of garlic around the 



this should be put into a small muslin bag and 

 hung around the neck. Let the children eat 



