Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-06-26
TALKS WITH THE DOCTOR.
Timely Talk on Measles and How to
Treat Them.

Treat Them.
If you can imagine such thing as q
combination of fever and catarrh YOU
have fair idea of the disease known
as measles. Luckily they are not q
dangerous disease, and if the patient be
reasonably careful there in little danger
OF serious complications OR of severe
after troubles. Measles are contagious,
and may be spread, not only by direct
contact with the sick person, but by
the clothing, etc; they may even be car.
rled long distances by infected clothes,
or by healthy persons who have been
with the patient.
They are especially children's dis.
ease, although nursing infants are
practically exempt and it is not un-
usual at all for adults to be attacked.
They are usually epidemic, but spora.
die cases are frequently met with, that
is, isolated cases will occur, for the
causes or Origin of which we may look
in vain. There is no better time than
May or June to have measles, and il
you have children of from six to twelve
{ears OF age, would advise you to al
low them to be exposed to the conta-
glon during these months, rather than
run the risk of their catching it during
more unfavorable months. Measles
usually commence with sneezing, run
ming OF tears, red eyes and nose, and all
the symptoms of a cold in the head This
is soon followed by hoarseness and a
cough. Not tight croupy hoarseness,
but loose and of rattling nature; then
comes the rash, first upon the face and
neck, next day the body is covered, and
the third day it is well out upon the
arms and legs, and the face is begin
ming to get clear.
have seldom known mother, es.
peclally young mother, who did not
allow herself to feel very anxious at
the appearance of any rash upon her
child, for fear it might indicate scarla-
tina or some other malignant disease,
and it is for your greater ease of mind
that advise you to remembe that mea-
sles rash is raised above the surface of
the skin and gives the skin rough feel
ing The eruption is of dark red or
rose color the spots are from the size
OF pinhead to that of two or three pin
heads. When you press with your fin
ger upon one of these spots the red col
or leaves it for moment and then re-
turns. Each little spot may have very
small pointed top, thus shaping it like
minute pimple, but this little point does
not, and need not always appear;
whether it does or not however, mea-
sles rash always makes the skin feel
rough and uneven, whereas scarlet few
er rash is not raised from the skin. The
rash seldom stays on any part of the
body more than two days. and in fact it
is seldom ''at it's best" for more than
twelve hours.
Measles usually come on, as l said
before, with sneezing and the symptoms
of cold in the head; there is tired,
drowsy feeling, sore muscles headache,
backache, and then more or less well
defined series of chills, followed by
feverish condition. If the child has
been exposed to a case of measles, and
has Caught" the disease, it usually
breaks out in fourteen days. and the
first symptoms (the sneezing, headache,
etc. in nine or ten days from the date
of exposure
When the rash commences the child
should be kept in the house, perhaps In
bed, The cough may be eased with
small doses of sirup of squills and pare
goric; any mild remedy may be used
to reduce the fever, as homeopathic
acoffite.
Attend carefully to the bowels, as a
may come on, which may re- |