Dr Budd, of Bristol, recommends, in the _British Medical Journal_, that the body, including the scalp, of a scarlet fever patient, should, after about the fourth day, be anointed, every night and morning, with camphorated oil; this anointing to be continued until the patient is able to take a warm bath and use disinfectant soap: this application will not only be very agreeable to the patient's feelings, as there is usually great irritation and itching of the skin, but it will, likewise, be an important means of preventing the dead skin, which is highly infectious, and which comes off partly in flakes and partly floats about the air as dust, from infecting other persons. The plan is an excellent one, and cannot be too strongly recommended. If the case be a combination of scarlet fever and of diphtheria, as it unfortunately now frequently is, let it be treated as a case of diphtheria. 224. _I have heard of a case of Scarlet Fever, where the child, before the eruption showed itself, was suddenly struck prostrate, cold, and almost pulseless: what, in such a case, are the symptoms, and what immediate treatment do you advise_? There is an _exceptional_ case of scarlet fever, which now and then occurs, and which requires _exceptional_ and prompt treatment, or death will quickly ensue. We will suppose a case: one of the number, where nearly all the other children of a family are labouring under scarlet fever, is quite well, when suddenly--in a few hours, or even, in some cases, in an hour--utter prostration sets in, he is very cold, and is almost pulseless, and is nearly insensible--comatose. Having sent instantly for a judicious medical man, apply, until he arrives, hot bottles, hot bricks, hot bags of salt to the patient's feet and legs and back, wrap him in hot blankets, close the window, and give him hot brandy and water--a tablespoonful of brandy to half a tumblerful of hot water--give it him by teaspoonfuls, continuously--to keep him alive; when he is warm and restored to consciousness, the eruption will probably show itself, and he will become hot and feverish; then your tactics must, at once, be changed, and my Fresh Air Treatment, and the rest of the plan I have before advised must in all its integrity, be carried out.