careless exposure to cold: under
such circumstances the child should be instantly, and without
hesitation, put into the warm bath.

Measles are frequently followed by cough, and deranged bowels; and
there is always great susceptibility about the child for some time. On
this account he should be carefully screened from a cold or damp
atmosphere; the diet should be carefully regulated; and flannel worn
next to the skin. If the cough should continue, it must not be
neglected on the supposition that it will wear off; for it demands the
skilful and careful attention of the medical man.

In conclusion, it may be remarked that very frequently during infancy
and childhood, and particularly during the period of teething,
eruptions very similar in appearance to this disease occur; unless,
however, they are accompanied by the specific fever, and run the
regular course, they may at once be decided upon as not being the
measles.

Sect. VII.--SMALL-POX.

This disease, the most dreaded of all eruptive fevers, is not so
commonly met with in the present day as formerly; thanks to that
Providence which led to the discovery of Jenner. But although its
occurrence is not so frequent, it still does occasionally present
itself; when it will assume either a mild or severe form. If it attack
a child that has not previously been vaccinated, it is called natural
small-pox; and the chances are that the disorder will be severe in
character;--if, on the other hand, it occur in the vaccinated, the
disease will generally be much modified in its symptoms; the attack
will be mild, and without danger.

NATURAL SMALL-POX.--The infection of small-pox having been received
into the system of a child that has not been vaccinated, fourteen days
(on an average) will transpire before the commencement of the febrile
symptoms, or eruptive fever. A distinct rigor or shivering fit then
takes place, accompanied by pain in the back or in the stomach, with
sickness, giddiness, or headach; as also great drowsiness. And if an
infant be the subject of the disease, a convulsive fit will sometimes
take place, or several in succession.

At the end of eight-and-forty hours from the occurrence of the rigor
(in the majority of cases), the eruption comes out; and shows itself
first on the face and neck in minute flea-bite spots. In the course of
the next four-and-twenty hours in some cases, and in others not until
the expiration of two or three days, it complet