ct with clothing, dishes,
or other articles, used about the sick room.

The clothing may be disinfected by heating to a temperature of 230 deg.
Fahrenheit or by dipping in boiling water before washing. {333}

Dogs and cats will also carry the disease and should be kept from the
house, and particularly from the sick room.

SYMPTOMS.--Chilly sensations or a decided chill, fever, headache, furred
tongue, vomiting, sore throat, rapid pulse, hot dry skin and more or less
stupor. In from 6 to 18 hours a fine red rash appears about the ears, neck
and shoulders, which rapidly spreads to the entire surface of the body.
After a few days, a scurf or branny scales will begin to form on the skin.
These scales are the principal source of contagion.

HOME TREATMENT.

1. Isolate the patient from other members of the family to prevent the
spread of the disease.

2. Keep the patient in bed and give a fluid diet of milk gruel, beef tea,
etc., with plenty of cold water to drink.

3. Control the fever by sponging the body with tepid water, and relieve the
pain in the throat by cold compresses, applied externally.

4. As soon as the skin shows a tendency to become scaly, apply goose grease
or clean lard with a little boracic acid powder dusted in it, or better,
perhaps, carbolized vaseline to relieve the itching and prevent the scales
from being scattered about, and subjecting others to the contagion.

REGULAR TREATMENT.--A few drops of aconite every three hours to regulate
the pulse, and if the skin be pale and circulation feeble, with tardy
eruption, administer one to ten drops of tincture of belladonna, according
to the age of the patient. At the end of third week, if eyes look puffy and
feet swell, there is danger of Acute Bright's disease, and a physician
should be consulted. If the case does not progress well under the home
remedies suggested, a physician should be called at once.

_WHOOPING COUGH._

DEFINITION.--This is a contagious disease which is known by a peculiar
whooping sound in the cough. Considerable mucus is thrown off after each
attack of spasmodic coughing.

SYMPTOMS.--It usually commences with the symptoms of a common cold in the
head, some chilliness, feverishness, {334} restlessness, headache, a
feeling of tightness across the chest, violent paroxysms of coughing,
sometimes almost threatening suffocation, and accompanied with vomiting.

HOME TREATMENT.--Patient should eat plain food and avoid cold drafts