, because of
the very infectious character of the disease, and because it is
probable that they have already been exposed during the early stages
when measles was not suspected, yet all possible precautions should be
adopted promptly. For this reason other children in the house should
be kept from school and away from their companions, and they ought
not to be sent away from home to spread the disease elsewhere. The
bowels should be kept regular by soapsuds injections or by mild
cathartics, as a Seidlitz powder. If the fever is over 103 deg. F. and is
accompanied by much distress and restlessness, children may be sponged
with tepid water, and adults with water at 80 deg. F., every two hours or
so as directed under scarlet fever. When cough is incessant or the
rash does not come out well, there is nothing better than the hot
pack.

The patient is stripped and wrapped from feet to neck in a blanket
wrung out of hot water containing two teaspoonfuls of mustard stirred
into a gallon of water. This is then covered with two dry blankets and
the patient allowed to remain in the blankets for two or three hours,
when the application may be repeated. It is well to keep a cold cloth
on the head during the process. Cough is also relieved by a mixture
containing syrup of ipecac, twenty drops; paregoric, one teaspoonful,
for an adult (or one-third the dose for a child of six), which should
be given in one-quarter glass of water and may be repeated every two
hours. If there is hoarseness, the neck should be rubbed with a
mixture of sweet oil, two parts; and oil of turpentine, one part, and
covered with a flannel bandage. The cough mixture will tend to relieve
this condition also. A solution of boric acid (ten grains of boric
acid to the ounce of water) is to be dropped in both eyes every two
hours with a medicine dropper. Although usually mild, the eye symptoms
may be very severe and require special treatment, and considerably
impaired vision may be the ultimate result. Severe diarrhea is
combated with bismuth subnitrate, one-quarter teaspoonful, every three
hours. For adults, the diet consists of milk, broths, gruels, and raw
eggs. Young children living on milk mixtures should receive the
mixture to which they are accustomed, diluted one-half with barley
water. Nourishment must be given every two hours except during sleep.
The patient should be ten days in bed, and should remain three days in
his room after getting up (or three week