Measels

This ditease prevails extensively in chics during the winter seaton, and will cure tself, if only protected gniiist adverse iufluence, ïhe older persons are tlie lees Hable they aro to recover perfectly froui tliis ailuient for t very uftcu leaves some life-long tualady behind t. Tho most hopeless forma of consitmptive dikease are oi'ttn tliu resul t ot ill couducted or badly iuauaged uieaaels. In nine cases out of ten, not a partióle of any medicine il needed. Our first advico b, ilways and under uil eiiTuniRtances, Eend at onee for an experieuced physician M o a u w h i 1 e keep the patiënt in a cool, dry and weli uircfl room, with moderate covering, in a position where there will be no exposure to drafta of air ïhe thermometer should range at sixty-tive degrees, where thu bed stands, whicb sh'iuld be moderately hard, of shui-ks, straw, or curled hair. Gratify the instinct for old water and lemonade. It is safest tu keep the bed forseveral days after the rash has begun to die away. The diet should be light, aud uf au opening, cooling charaetr. The niin object of this article ia to wam pereons 'that the greatest danger is affcr the dÍBipp.;"'a"ce of the measeis. We would advis thaC for t!rca weeks after the patiënt o well enough to leave bis bed, he should not go (ut of the house, nor stand or sit for a sinjrí.e minute near an open wtndow or door,, nor wash any part of the person in cold wate'. or warm, but to wipe the face and hundí with a warm, damp cloth. For a good part of this tima the appetite should not. be wholly giatified; the patiënt lbould eat sl.wly of light, nutiitious food. ín oue case, a little chüd, almnst entircly well of the nieaslcs got to playing with its hands in cold water; t gradually dwindled away and died. All exerciae .should be moderate, in order to prevent cooíing off too quickly afterward, and to save the danger ofexposurn to drafts of' air, which by cliilling the surface, causas chronic diarrhea if it fallson the bowelí, deuneti for Ufe, if it falla on the ear, or iiicurabe