New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-09

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considerable weakening Of the heart muscle following
fevers Consequently, the heart must be given time to
regain its normal before much STRAIN IS again put
upon it by the violent exigcncics OF play
The ewes may be bathcd with a little warm normal
salt solution "a teaspoonul OF table salt to the pint OF
water) little vasciue or olive OIL VIII prevent the
lids from "glung together during the night. Indeed,
care Of the eyes is very essential, as many cases OF
chronic eye trouble result from an attack ot measles.
The comfort Of the patient may be greatly enhanced
bv sDonging the body with cpid water and alcohol es-
pecially when the fever is high Sometimes cloths
wrrng out Of ice water applied to the head are OF de-
cidcd advantage.
Speaking Of baths recalls that it was the common
custom until dozen years ago-is yet, IN some very
backward paccs-for mothers to rejoice and wax eX-
ceeding glad when little Brother or Sister developed
during the course Of measles, an extra good rash;
this on the basis that the children getting nd OF
lot of humor and also that 1t was better out than IN
The proposal to give the little tads relief and comfort,
and at the same time reduce their fever by Tubing
them or applying wet packs, would be met by an IN
credulous ~Whv YOU don't want drive the rash IN,
do your" This driving in process was generally held
10 result in COMMISSIONS or other serious consequences
Now we know that the rash outside simply indicates
approximately what is going on inside The more Tash'
the more severe the disease.
The food should be extremely light. Nutritious
broths so-boilcd eggs, milk, elies, Junkets toast
with the particular child best Oatmeal and sweet
ened mushes because of their tendency TO cause ter
mentation and thereby increase the fever, should be
left until such time the patient is strong enough to
withstand their harmful influence. 1t IS also wise to
remember that tissue cannot be built up nor waste re-
paired by starchy grues; for man does not 1--we by
starch alone Starch may stick paper but 1t does not
stick TO the ribs.
Pet animals should be carefully excluded from the
room Of a measles patient. Children have habit OF
fonding and nuzzng and dogs and, while perhaps
it has never been definitely proved that pets have con-
veyed measles all opportunities and means for so dong
are certainly present in them and their furry coats.
WHILE it is generally held that one visitation OF
w measles confers immunity from succeeding at
tacks there are numerous on record OF second or
even third attacks
1t NAV surprise many to know that measles occurring
among uncivlzed peoples, is dreadtuy fatal disease,
whole tribes being literally wiped out OF existence by ITS
ravages When it was first introduced into the FIJI
Islands, and had chance to breed in bodies that had
not undergone certain degree OF mmunization to It,
such as exists in most civilized countries the natives
died by thousands Twenty thousand persisted in less
than a year; in fact the epidemic did not run itself
out until every person the islands had either died. or
had the disease and recovered from it.
1t is well known that when an adult gets the measles
he "gets it good And he can be about sick with an
attack Of it as with almost anything he could pick out
for experimental purposes. When It allcts an army
where sanitary precautions usually conspicuous by
their absence-it claims heavy toll. For instance,
some years ago, in the between Brazil and Para
quay it swept away one-thlrd Of the Paraguayan army
in less than three months; and during our Civil War
there were more than hryeight thousand cases IN the
Confederate army alone with a total Of nineteen thou
sand deaths
In the United States the present time, the annual
mortality from measles is about thirty in one hundred
thousand: not large, perhaps considering the total
number Of cases. but just thirty in one hundred thou
sand more than there should be.
For measles has no more reason for existence than