ms are apt to take on the aspect of diphtheria. The renal
discharge exhibits the conditions of a catarrh of the urinary canals
originating from causes we do not understand.

Among the after effects of scarlet fever are inflammation of the ear
with all its consequences, and inflammatory affections of the lungs, air
passages, diaphragm and heart membrane.

The cause, I repeat again, is _dysaemia_--impure blood.

If the patient is predisposed to this form of disease and moreover, a
weakling, the case is a dangerous one.

Every good mother should see to it that there is healthy blood in her
offspring. The task is comparatively an easy one, the method, is simple
and ignorance ceases to be an excuse, for my object is to place the
necessary knowledge within the reach of all.

The treatment of scarlet fever varies according to which symptoms are
most severe.

In the first place prophylactic efforts must be constantly employed to
prevent _possible_ contagion. Healthy children must be strictly
seperated from the sick till the end of desquamation or scaling--a
period of four to six weeks.

If the course of the attack is normal, the patient should be kept in bed
under a light cover with a room temperature of 60 deg. to 65 deg.. The sick room
must be well ventilated and aired daily.

The windows should be hung with transparent _red_ curtains.

The diet may consist of milk, curds, barley soup, oatmeal gruel, flour
gruel, with some cooked fruit and, of drinks, lemonade, soda water, and
raspberry juice; but the most important drink from a scientific point is
Dechmann's "Tonogen," as previously described.

The linen should be changed often

Sponge baths with chilled vinegar-water (1 part cider vinegar diluted
with 2 parts water) are helpful when the temperature rises to 102 deg.. If
the temperature reaches 105 deg. or over, baths must be promptly
administered. The patient may be placed in a bath of 85 deg. or 90 deg., and the
water allowed to cool gradually down to 70 deg. or 65 deg..

A sick child may stay in such a bath ten or twenty minutes, while the
time in a bath practically should not be more than three or five
minutes. The bath must be repeated as soon as the fever again reaches
105 deg..

When the first symptoms of measles, scarlet fever or chicken-pox are
noticed, give the child a three-quarter pack. (See directions under
"packs"). After each pack sponge the patient with cool vinegar-water.

If the fever is hi