If the cough should continue, it must not be
neglected on the supposition that it will wear off; for it demands the
skilful and careful attention of the medical man.
In conclusion, it may be remarked that very frequently during infancy
and childhood, and particularly during the period of teething,
eruptions very similar in appearance to this disease occur; unless,
however, they are accompanied by the specific fever, and run the
regular course, they may at once be decided upon as not being the
measles.
Sect. VII.--SMALL-POX.
This disease, the most dreaded of all eruptive fevers, is not so
commonly met with in the present day as formerly; thanks to that
Providence which led to the discovery of Jenner. But although its
occurrence is not so frequent, it still does occasionally present
itself; when it will assume either a mild or severe form. If it attack
a child that has not previously been vaccinated, it is called natural
small-pox; and the chances are that the disorder will be severe in
character;--if, on the other hand, it occur in the vaccinated, the
disease will generally be much modified in its symptoms; the attack
will be mild, and without danger.
NATURAL SMALL-POX.--The infection of small-pox having been received
into the system of a child that has not been vaccinated, fourteen days
(on an average) will transpire before the commencement of the febrile
symptoms, or eruptive fever.
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