g or cold pack are indicated when the temperature is over
102.5 deg. F., and when with fever there are restlessness and delirium.
Great cleanliness is important throughout the disease; the bedclothes
should be changed daily and the patient sponged two or three times
daily with warm water, unless fever is high. Cloths wet with cold
carbolic-acid solution (one-half teaspoonful to the pint of hot water)
should be kept continuously on the face and hands. Holes are cut in
the face mask for the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the whole covered
with a similar piece of oil silk to keep in the moisture. Such
applications give much relief, and to some extent prevent pitting.
The hair must be cut short, and crusts on the scalp treated with
frequent sponging and applications of carbolized vaseline, to soften
them and hasten their falling. The boric-acid solution should be
dropped into the eyes as recommended for measles, and the throat
sprayed every few hours with Dobell's solution. Diarrhea in adults may
be checked with teaspoonful doses of paregoric given hourly in water.
Vaseline and cloths used on a patient must not be employed on another,
as boils are thus readily propagated. All clothing, dishes, etc.,
coming in contact with a patient must be boiled, or soaked in a
two-per cent carbolic-acid solution for twenty-four hours, or burned.
When the patient is entirely free from scabs, after bathing and
putting on disinfected or new clothes outside of the sick room, he is
fit to reenter the world.

=CHICKENPOX.=--Chickenpox is a contagious disease, chiefly attacking
children. While it resembles smallpox in some respects, at times
simulating the latter so closely as to puzzle physicians, it is a
distinct disease and is in no way related to smallpox. This is shown
by the fact that chickenpox sometimes attacks a patient suffering
with, or recovering from, smallpox. Neither do vaccination nor a
previous attack of smallpox protect an individual from chickenpox.
Chickenpox is not common in adults, and its apparent presence in a
grown person should awaken the liveliest suspicion lest the case be
one of smallpox, since this mistake has been frequently made, and
with disastrous results, during an epidemic of mild smallpox. One
attack of chickenpox usually protects against another, but two or
three attacks in the same individual are not unknown. The disease may
be transmitted from the patient to another person from the time of the
first symptom