er in chicken-pox, and in small pox they do not.

SYMPTOMS.--Nine to seventeen days elapse after the exposure, before
symptoms appear. Slight fever, a sense of sickness, the appearance of
scattered pimples, some itching and heat. The pimples rapidly change into
little blisters, filled with a watery fluid. After five or six days they
disappear.

HOME TREATMENT.--Milk diet, and avoid all kinds of meat. Keep the bowels
open, and avoid all exposure to cold. Large vesicles on the face should be
punctured early, and irritation by rubbing should be avoided.

_HOME TREATMENT OF DIPHTHERIA._

DEFINITION.--Acute, specific, constitutional disease, with local
manifestations in the throat, mouth, nose, larynx, windpipe, and glands of
the neck. The disease is infectious, but not very contagious under the
proper precautions. It is a disease of childhood, though adults sometimes
contract it. Many of the best physicians of the day consider true or
membranous croup to be due to this diphtheritic membranous disease thus
located in the larynx or trachea. {336}

SYMPTOMS.--Symptoms vary according to the severity of the attack. Chills,
fever, headache, languor, loss of appetite, stiffness of neck, with
tenderness about the angles of the jaw, soreness of the throat, pain in the
ear, aching of the limbs, loss of strength, coated tongue, swelling of the
neck, and offensive breath; lymphatic glands on side of neck enlarged and
tender. The throat is first to be seen red and swollen, then covered with
grayish white patches, which spread, and a false membrane is found on the
mucous membrane. If the nose is attacked, there will be an offensive
discharge, and the child will breathe through the mouth. If the larynx or
throat are involved, the voice will become hoarse, and a croupy cough, with
difficult breathing, shows that the air passage to the lungs is being
obstructed by the false membrane.

HOME TREATMENT.--Isolate the patient, to prevent the spread of the disease.
Diet should be of the most nutritious character, as milk, eggs, broths, and
oysters. Give at intervals of every two or three hours. If patient refuses
to swallow, from the pain caused by the effort, a nutrition injection must
be resorted to. Inhalations of steam and hot water, and allowing the
patient to suck pellets of ice, will give relief. Sponges dipped in hot
water, and applied to the angles of the jaw, are beneficial. Inhalations of
lime, made by slaking freshly burnt lime i