£*•

DISEASES OF THE GENERAL SYSTEM. 347
eating of flesh. Vegetarians of pure lives and healthy
constitutions are in no danger from it, and some will
not take it by inoculation.
The treatment is the same as for any fever of the
same intensity ; protecting the skin by frequent packing,
laying wet cloths upon it, and keeping out the light, as
an additional safeguard against the pitting. It is seldom
that a perceptible mark is left in judicious water-cure
treatment.
Hooping Cough, I am satisfied, is of the same na
ture as the eruptive diseases of the skin. The dreadful
determined to the
cough is caused by the disease being
mucous membrane. We have often cured it in a week,
by abstinence, thorough wet-sheet packing, and the wet
bandage 'around the chest.
The slighter infantile and eruptive fevers are to be
treated on the same principles. Whenever a child is
feverish, from any cause, there are certain things to be
done. It must not eat nor nurse but very little ; it may
drink cold water, as much as it likes ; its bowels must
be moved, if they require it, by injections;
either be well bathed in cold water,
and it must
or have a wet
bandage around it, or be packed in a wet-sheet pack,
or all three, if the symptoms require it.
Scrofula is said to be derived from scrofa, a sow, be
cause it is a disease of swine, and one occasioned by
feeding like hogs, or upon hogs. It is a hereditary dis
ease, or may
be developed by diseasing causes. It
causes arrest of development, accumulations of morbid
matter, inflammation, softening, and destruction of all
the tissues of the body. Scrofulous infants have small
limbs, large abdomens, protruding chests, large heads,