ea or vomiting, with high fever (103 deg. to 104 deg.
F.) These last two or three days, and may completely subside when the
rash appears. In chickenpox preliminary discomfort is absent, or lasts
but a few hours before the eruption. The eruption of smallpox usually
occurs first on the forehead, near the hair, or on the palms of the
hands, soles of the feet, the arms and legs, but is usually sparse on
the body. The eruption appears about the same time in smallpox and not
in successive crops, as in chickenpox. Chickenpox is more commonly a
disease of childhood; smallpox attacks all ages. The crusts in
chickenpox are thin, and appear in four or five days, while those of
smallpox are large and yellow, and occur after ten or twelve days.

=Outlook.=--Chickenpox almost invariably results in a rapid and speedy
recovery without complications or sequels. The young patients often
feel well throughout the attack, which lasts from eight to twelve
days.

=Treatment.=--Children should be kept in bed during the eruptive stage
until the blisters have dried. To prevent scratching, the calamine
lotion may be used (Vol. II, p. 145), or carbolized vaseline, or
bathing with a solution of baking soda, one teaspoonful to the pint of
tepid water. The diet should be that recommended for German measles.
Patients should be kept in the house and isolated until all signs of
the eruption are passed, and then receive a good bath and fresh
clothing before mingling with others. The sick room should be
thoroughly cleaned and aired; thorough chemical disinfection is not
essential.

The services of a physician are always desirable in order that it may
be positively determined that the disease is not a mild form of
smallpox.

CHAPTER II

=Infectious Diseases=

_Typhoid Fever--How it is Contracted--Complications and Sequels--Rest,
Diet, and Bathing the Requisites--Mumps--Whooping Cough--Erysipelas._

=TYPHOID FEVER (ENTERIC FEVER).=--Through ignorance which prevailed
before the discovery of the germ of typhoid fever and exact methods
for determining the presence of the same, the term was loosely applied
and is to this day. Thus mild forms of typhoid are called gastric
fever, slow fever, malarial fever, nervous fever, etc., all true
typhoid in most cases; while typhoid fever, common to certain
localities and differing in some respects from the typical form, is
often named after the locality in which it occurs, as the "mountain
fever" common