DISEASES OF CHILDREN. 299 
tartar in a cup of hot water, sweeten, add a few drops of 
essence of lemon, and give freely; keep the room warm and 
well ventilated. Sponge the body twice daily with tepid 
water, and the healing or glycerine soap. To prevent pitting, 
a mixture of cream and fine oatmeal gruel is painted on the face 
and hands often; give a light farinaceous diet, digestive food, 
see to the bowels. If obstinate, an injection should be given. 
This treatment, for an adult, with a Thomsonian course, will 
answer well. If the patient is too weak to sit over the steam, 
the hot brick and vinegar cloth will answer the purpose. 
During the last stage, when the parts of the skin are being 
thrown off, cover them with an ointment, made by simmering 
an ounce of green, or half an ounce dry marigold flowers in 
four ounces of vaseline ; spread on soft rags, and cover sores. 
CHICKEN-POX. 
Chicken-pox is by no means a dangerous disease, although 
it is common to children. It is generally preceded by 
slight fever, similar to that of small-pox and cow-pox, and the 
eruptions make their appearance about the third day, in small, 
dark-coloured inflamed spots, about the breast and back. A 
small vesicle or pimple rises in the centre, with a whitish 
transparent covering. About the second day after the 
eruption, the spots appear like small bladders filled witha 
thin clear fluid, which change, and become turbid and hard. 
About the fourth day, they assume a crusted appearance, 
begin to break, and about the eighth or ninth day gradually 
fall off altogether. ‘There is not much treatment needed in 
this eruption. Keep the child in a warm ventilated room; 
give a tea of pennyroyal, agrimony, and marigold flowers, 
half ounce of each to the pint, sweeten; wash with the 
healing soap; keep the bowels open, and do not let the 
child out till the skin is in its normal condition. 
COW-POX, OR VACCINATION. 
Cow-pox is an eruptive disease originating and belonging to 
the cow. It is, in fact, a form of small-pox. The symptoms are 
not so severe, however, but havea striking resemblance to it, so 
