5755. Atlee's Scarlet Fever Remedy

5755.    Atlee's Scarlet Fever Remedy. 1/2 ounce each chlorate of potassa and hydrochloric acid, and £ ounce spring water. Dose, 10 drops in a wine-glassful of cold water every 2 hours.

5756. Intermittent Fever Pills

5756. Intermittent Fever Pills. Take 10 to 12 grains white oxide of arsenic; 1 drachm muriate of ammonia, and 12 grains gum opium. Make into 64 pills. Dose, 1 to be taken morning, noon and night, with or without fever.

5757. Intermittent Fever Mixture

5757.    Intermittent Fever Mixture. Take 5 grains tannin, 16 grains sulphate of quinine, 1 ounce syrup of ginger, and 1/2 ounce cinnamon water. Take 1 tea-spoonful every hour, in the absence of the fever..

5758. Treatment of Small-Pox

5758.       Treatment of Small-Pox. Advice should always be obtained as soon as the earliest symptoms appear; often the only symptom understood by the parents or friends is the eruption. In the absenco of advice, tho simpler cases of small-pox, unattended by much eruption, scarcely require any further treatment than confinement of the patient to bed, adminstering at tho commencement a dose of aperient medicine, such as effervescing magnesia (see No. 4805 (Solution of Citrate of Magnesia), etc..,) or castor oil, etc., and, until tho eruption appears, of a few doses of mindererus spirit (see No. 5143 (Spirit of Mindererus, or Solution of Acetate of Ammonia)), to promote perspiration. In tho more severe cases there are individual symptoms of an unfavorable nature not unlikely to be developed, and these must be met by appropriate treatment. The imperfect filling of the pustules is generally accompanied by a low form of fever, requiring tho use of stimulants, wine or brandy; these must, of course, be administered with great caution. In all stages, if tho patient present a sunken look, and the pulse be feeble, tho necessity for stimulants is indicated. By giving them with caution is meant that only just sufficient to keep up the vital powers should bo given.

5759. To Prevent Pitting in Small-Pox

5759.    To Prevent Pitting in Small-Pox. Tho following has been found very effectual: The application consists of a solution of india-rubber in chloroform, which is painted with a camel-hair pencil over tho surface of the skin, where exposed, when tho eruption has become fully developed. "When the chloroform has evaporated, which it very readily does, there is left a thin elastic film of india-rubber over the face. This the patient feels to be rather comfortable, as it removes itching and all irritation; and, what is more important, pitting, once so common, is thoroughly prevented by the application. In making the solution, the india-rubber must be cut into small pieces, and chloroform added till it is dissolved. Gutta-percha has been tried, but has not answered, on account of its non-elasticity. Should any of the solution, from some cause, bo torn off, apply the solution as before.