Treatment. — Chronic bronchitis, occurring mostly in con- stitutions impaired either by age or previous illness, requires a different treatment as regards diet and regimen, as also it demands more stimulant and tonic medicines. The frequent application of external irritants and stimulating liniments is more useful here than even in acute bronchitis. This may be effected by friction with compound camphor liniment, or hartshorn and oil, or spirits of turpentine, or the use of repeated mustard plasters, and occasionally blistering the chest. Chicken Pock. — In the majority of cases this is a mere trifling malady, with little or no febrile symptoms. In many others it is preceded with a four-and-twenty or six-and-thirty hours' feverish disturbance. These symptoms usually subside on the appearance of an eruption of pimples on the body, face, and head. On the second day the pimples present small vesicles or bladders, containing a clear fluid like water. On the third or fourth day the vesicles contain opaque yellowish fluid; these dry and fall off in scabs during the next two or three days, leaving, generally, no trace behind. Sometimes, however, the skin is slightly pitted, especially if the spots have been scratched or picked. Treatment. — This consists in a light diet, and the mildest aperient medicine, if even any be required at all. The disease is sometimes mistaken for modified small-pox, and vice versa. But it will be noticed that the vesicles of chicken pock stand on the pimple like a small bubble or bladder of water, and that they have little or no inflammation around their bases. In 310 MEDICINAL. small-pox, even when modified, there is always an inflamed base to the vesicles, which are flattened instead of globular. Chicken pock runs a much shorter course than modified small- pox. The latter seldom, even when most distinctly modified, lasting less than ten or twelve days; chicken pock seldom exceeding six or seven, and being mature on the fourth day. Chilblains. — The best remedy for these, when not broken, is to paint them twice a day with strong tincture of iodine. A liniment of equal parts of extract of lead and spirits of turpentine is also very useful. If inflamed and broken, they should be poulticed and dressed with some simple ointment. Cholera : — English or Autumnal Diarrhcea. — Symptoms. — In the heat of autumn it is very common that diarrhoea sets in suddenly, without any signs of previous bilious disorder. It is frequently accompanied by cramps of the legs, with nausea or vomiting; the tongue is furred, and great thirst is caused; the pulse is feeble; the loose motions are numerous — bilious at first — becoming more and more watery until they contain little more than mucus.

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Treatment. — Chronic bronchitis, occurring mostly in constitutions impaired either by age or previous illness, requires a different treatment as regards diet and regimen, as also it demands more stimulant and tonic medicines. The frequent application of external irritants and stimulating liniments is more useful here than even in acute bronchitis. This may be effected by friction with compound camphor liniment, or hartshorn and oil, or spirits of turpentine, or the use of repeated mustard plasters, and occasionally blistering the chest. [illustration: Chicken Pock] In the majority of cases this is a mere trifling malady, with little or no febrile symptoms. In many others it is preceded with a four-and-twenty or six-and-thirty hours' feverish disturbance. These symptoms usually subside on the appearance of an eruption of pimples on the body, face, and head. On the second day the pimples present small vesicles or bladders, containing a clear fluid like water. On the third or fourth day the vesicles contain opaque yellowish fluid; these dry and fall off in scabs during the next two or three days, leaving, generally, no trace behind. Sometimes, however, the skin is slightly pitted, especially if the spots have been scratched or picked. Treatment. — This consists in a light diet, and the mildest aperient medicine, if even any be required at all. The disease is sometimes mistaken for modified small-pox, and vice versa. But it will be noticed that the vesicles of chicken pock stand on the pimple like a small bubble or bladder of water, and that they have little or no inflammation around their bases. In small-pox, even when modified, there is always an inflamed base to the vesicles, which are flattened instead of globular. Chicken pock runs a much shorter course than modified smallpox. The latter seldom, even when most distinctly modified, lasting less than ten or twelve days; chicken pock seldom exceeding six or seven, and being mature on the fourth day. Chilblains. — The best remedy for these, when not broken, is to paint them twice a day with strong tincture of iodine. A liniment of equal parts of extract of lead and spirits of turpentine is also very useful. If inflamed and broken, they should be poulticed and dressed with some simple ointment. Cholera : — English or Autumnal Diarrhcea. — Symptoms. — In the heat of autumn it is very common that diarrhoea sets in suddenly, without any signs of previous bilious disorder. It is frequently accompanied by cramps of the legs, with nausea or vomiting; the tongue is furred, and great thirst is caused; the pulse is feeble; the loose motions are numerous — bilious at first — becoming more and more watery until they contain little more than mucus.

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