a
feeling of compression, with a cough in the chest, may accompany the
disease.

Gastric symptoms, with vomiting, intestinal disturbance, diarrhea, with
or without mucus and blood, are quite common in some epidemics.

Not infrequently we have numerous cases in which the ear seems to be the
vulnerable part. As a consequence running ears have to receive most of
our attention. When the ears are affected, the glands of the neck become
inflamed. They swell up and add considerable to the discomfort of the
little patient.

Treatment.--Cases of influenza should be isolated. Children should be
put in a room by themselves and the other children of the family should
not be permitted to see them. The rooms should be disinfected after the
case is over. As complications are the dangerous element in grippe, we
should try to prevent them. This can be best done by promptly putting
the child in bed, making him comfortable, opening his bowels by castor
oil or calomel. He should be made to drink hot lemonade. He should be
kept on a light diet from which meat and vegetables are excluded.

The above treatment will usually suffice in the ordinary uncomplicated
grippe. If complications arise they must be treated according to the
conditions.

It is well to remember that the degree of prostration following a rather
severe attack of grippe is out of all proportion to the extent of the
disease. These little patients sometimes suffer considerably and do not
regain their strength promptly. Experience has taught us that the best
thing to do is to send them away. A change of climate will do wonders
for them, more quickly and more thoroughly than all the medicine we can
give them at home. The seashore is particularly good for them.

DIPHTHERIA

Diphtheria is an acute, specific, infectious, communicable disease. It
affects the tonsils, throat, nose, or larynx. It is most frequently seen
in children between the ages of two and five years, though it may appear
at any time during life. The two sexes are equally liable to it. The
same person may have the disease twice or more times at different ages.
Children suffering from disease of the nose or throat are more likely to
get it than are others. Such diseases are cold in the head with running
nose, catarrh of the nose and throat, inflammation of the mucous
membranes of the nose or throat.

Diphtheria may occur at any time of the year, though it is more frequent
during the cold months. The incub