ut the
seventh or eighth day--at which time the fever also disappears.

The bowels must be kept open; a daily bath be given--in which has been
dissolved a small amount of bicarbonate of soda (simple baking
soda)--after which an oil rub should be administered. The nose should
be frequently sprayed with three per cent camphor-menthol-alboline
spray, while the throat is gargled with equal parts of alcohol and
water. The feet should be kept warm by external heat, while the
physician in charge may order additional attention to the chest, such
as a pneumonia jacket, etc.

Care should be taken to guard against "catching cold," for bronchitis
or pneumonia is quite likely to develop in many cases of measles. The
eyes should be protected by goggles and the room should be darkened;
under no circumstances should the little patient be allowed to read.
Carelessness in this respect may mean weakened eyesight all the rest
of his life. Until two weeks after the rash has disappeared, the
little fellow should be kept by himself, for the desquamation keeps up
almost continuously during this time.

The food during the course of the disease is a liquid and soft diet.
Children should never be allowed to go to a party or gathering with a
cold in the head; the mothers of a group of small children will never
forget the time that one certain mother allowed her little fellow to
attend a party with "simply a cold in the head." He laughed, talked,
and sneezed during the afternoon and when he went home the rash
appeared that night, while eight of the ten exposed children came down
with measles during the next two weeks.

CHICKENPOX

The incubation period of chickenpox is from ten to seventeen days. It
is a mild disease, with a troublesome rash consisting of widely
scattered pimples appearing over the scalp, face, and body. These
pimples soon became vesicles (small blisters), which in turn quickly
become pustular, afterwards drying up with heavy crust formation.
Severe itching which attends these pustules may be greatly allayed by
either the daily carbolic-acid-water bath or a baking-soda bath. The
itching must be relieved by proper measures, for if the crust is
removed from the top of the blebs by scratching, a scar usually
results. The bowels should be kept open, the diet should be soft.
Rigidly isolate, for chickenpox is highly contagious.

SMALLPOX

This disease occurs oftenest during the cold season. It spares no one
unless vaccinat