It is not my intention here to refer to the management of the essential fevers, for I hold that neither mother nor nurse is capable of managing them without professional assistance. However, the following tables, exhibiting the features of the eruptive fevers and other contagious diseases, will answer some of the questions which so frequently suggest themselves to the minds of anxious parents.

Eruptive Fevers

Name.

Period of in-cuba-tion.

Day of rash.

Character of rash.

Rash fades.

Dura-tion of illness.

Duration of contagious-ness.

Measles...

10 to days.

4th day of fever, or after 72 hours' ill-ness.

Small, dull red pimples, appearing behind the ears and on face.

On 7th day of fever.

9 days.

From first day, for exactly 3 weeks.

Scarlet Fever.

2 to 7 days.

2d day of fever, or a f t e r 24 hours' ill-ness.

General rosy blush ap-pears first about neck and shoul-ders.

On 5th day af-ter fe-ver.

8 or 9 days. (This does not in-clude se-quels.)

Six weeks at least.

Typhoid Fever.

10 to

14 days.

7th to 14th day.

Rose-color-ed, slightly elevated spots, few in number, chiefly on abdomen.

14 to 21 days.

Not conta-gious. In-fectious.

Chicken-pox.

12 to days.

2d day of fever, or after 24 hours' ill-ness.

Appears in crops on back and abdomen, small, red papules rap-idly passing into globular vesicles.

Thin scabs form about 4th day of fever.

7 to 12 days.

First day, for three weeks, or a full week after all dry crusts have dis-appeared.

Small-pox.

12 days.

3d day of fever, or after 48 hours' ill-ness.

Small, hard, red pimples, becoming vesicles, then pus-tu1es, ap-pearing first on face and neck.

Scabs form on 9 th or 10th day of fever, and fall off about the 14th.

14 to 21 days.

First day, for about 6 weeks.