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 ness over cyeseyes [sic], pain in head, hoarse cough, increased hcatheat [sic], then small darkish red spots over body.

.——Measles is in general a mild disease, requiring little treatment besides keeping the patient moderately warm. The apartment ought to be darkened, and the patient have plenty of fluid to drink.

.——When inflammatory symptoms run high, bleeding with leeches; when eruption is repelled, the hot bath with mustard. Whiskey and sulphur is an old and a popular, but a very questionable remedy employed for striking out the rash. After the eruption has disappeared, a little opening medicine, as castor oil, senna tea, &c., ought to be given.

PILES.

.——Habitual costiveness; hard riding; straining at stool; the use of aloctiealoetic [sic] purgatives, &c.

.——Small hard tumours at the verge of the anus, causing much pain, which is increased by active cxereiseexercise [sic] or straining at stool; oceasionallyoccasionally [sic] discharge of blood from anus.

.——Rest in recumbent posture; laxitive mcdicinesmedicines [sic], such as sulphur and cream of tartar, a teaspoonful of each, taken each night in treacle, or chew bit of rhubarb root; anoint with pile ointment, the best consists of five grains of gallic acid to an ounce of lard.

.——If piles be excessively painful, a little extraetextract [sic] of opium ought to be added to the ointment. The use of ardent spirits, wines, or ales, must be entirely interdicted. The food should be light, and of easy digestion.——N.B. It is sometimes useful to apply leeches or get the piles lanced; a warm poultice of linseed being immediately afterwards applied to encourage the bleeding.

RHEUMATISM (A).

.——Exposure to cold or damp.

.——Pain, often extreme in the part affected, generally the arms, shoulders, back, limbs, or joints, sometimes all of them, accompanied with quick, hard pulse, and other febrile symptoms.

.——Sharp treatment is best, such as