it appears, the body should be sponged with cold
vinegar-and-water, or tepid water, as in measles, poured over the chest
and body, the patient being, as in that disease, wrapped in a blanket
and put to bed, and the same powders and mixture ordered in measles
administered, with the addition of a constant hot bran poultice round
the throat, which should be continued from the first symptom till a day
or two after the declension of the rash. The same low diet and cooling
drink, with the same general instructions, are to be obeyed in this as
in the former disease.

2563. When the fever runs high in the first stage, and there is much
nausea, before employing the effusions of water, give the patient an
emetic, of equal, parts of ipecacuanha and antimonial wine, in doses of
from a teaspoonful to a tablespoonful, according to age. By these means,
nine out of every ten cases of scarlatina may be safely and
expeditiously cured, especially if the temperature of the patient's room
is kept at an even standard of about sixty degrees.

HOOPING-COUGH, CROUP, AND DIARRHOEA, WITH THEIR MODE OF TREATMENT.

Hooping-Cough.

2564. THIS is purely a spasmodic disease, and is only infectious through
the faculty of imitation, a habit that all children are remarkably apt
to fall into; and even where adults have contracted hooping-cough, it
has been from the same cause, and is as readily accounted for, on the
principle of imitation, as that the gaping of one person will excite or
predispose a whole party to follow the same spasmodic example. If any
one associates for a few days with a person who stammers badly, he will
find, when released from his company, that the sequence of his
articulation and the fluency of his speech are, for a time, gone; and it
will be a matter of constant vigilance, and some difficulty, to overcome
the evil of so short an association. The manner in which a number of
school-girls will, one after another, fall into a fit on beholding one
of their number attacked with epilepsy, must be familiar to many. These
several facts lead us to a juster notion of how to treat this spasmodic
disease. Every effort should, therefore, be directed, mentally and
physically, to break the chain of nervous action, on which the
continuance of the cough depends.

2565. _Symptoms._--Hooping-cough comes on with a slight oppression of
breathing, thirst, quick pulse, hoarseness, and a hard, dry cough. This
state may exist without any change fro