taining 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 vesicles, so
noticeable in variola.

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 may be added from one-half to
one teaspoonful of the Extract of Smart-weed. If the fever runs high, a
few drops of aconite in water will control it.

MEASLES. (RUBEOLA.)

This is generally a disease of less severity and importance than the
other eruptive fevers, but it is sometimes followed by serious
complications. The stage of invasion is marked by the symptoms of a
common cold, sneezing, watery eyes, a discharge from the nostrils, a dry
cough, chilliness, and headache. This stage may last four days. Then
follows an eruption of red dots or specks, which momentarily disappear
on pressure. On the fourth day of the eruption the redness of the skin
fades, the fever diminishes, and the vesicles dry into scales or little
flakes. The eyes may be inflamed and the bowels may be quite lax at this
stage.

TREATMENT. The great object in the treatment is to bring out the
eruption. To effect this, sweating teas are beneficial. The free use of
the Extract of Smart-weed is recommended, and the skin should be bathed
every day with tepid water. Sometimes when warm drinks fail to bring out
the eruption, drinking freely of cold water and keeping warmly covered
in bed, will accomplish the desired result.

FALSE MEASLES (_Rose Rash_) is an affection of very little importance
and may be treated similarly to a case of ordinary measles.

ERYSIPELAS.

There are few adult persons in this country who have not, by observation
or experience, become somewhat familiar with this disease. Its
manifestations are both constitutional and local, and their intensity
varies exceedingly in different cases. The constitutional symptoms are
usually the first to appear, and are of a febrile character. A distinct
chill, attended by nausea and general derangement of the stomach is
experienced, followed by febrile symptoms more or less severe. There are
wandering pains in the body and sometimes a passive delirium exists.
Simultaneously with these symptoms th