Take three ounces of raspberry syrup and fifteen drops of muriatic acid. Rub the whole of the acid with two or three spoonfuls of syrup in a porcelain mortar (or, if there is none, in a soup-plate with the foot of a wine-glass, or a tumbler) for a minute or two; then add some more of the syrup and rub again, and thus continue till the acid is well divided and mixed up with the syrup. Of this mixture give the patient a teaspoonful every hour or two, or oftener, according to the symptoms. An other form for a gargle is this: Take a cup of coarse pearl-barley (or of rice), roast it till yellow; then boil it with one quart of water for ten minutes; add one teaspoonful of muriatic-acid, and four or six tablespoonfuls of honey; mix it well and use it for a gargle, tepid. The decoction should be passed through some linen, or a sieve, before the acid and honey are added, to keep back the barley or rice-grains. The syrup should be used for inflammation of the tonsils; the gargle for inflammation of the fauces or pharynx. [17] Schnitzlein, das Scharlachfieber, seine Geschichte, Erkenntniss und Heilung: Muenchen, 1851. [18] Schneemann, die sichere Heilung der Scharlachkrankheit durch eine neue, voellig gefahrlose Heilmethode. Hannover, 1848. [19] Lindsley, Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, May, 1850. [20] C. A. W. Richter, das Wasserbuch. Berlin, 1856. [21] Berend, Oppenheimer Zeitschrift. April, 1848. [22] Hauner, Deutsche Klinik, 1850, No. 41. [23] Hufeland, Hedenus, Burdach, Berndt, Cramer, Maclure, Feron, &c. [24] Lehmann, Harnier, Wagner, Vogel, Steimmig, Schwartze, Cock, Pfaff, Baumgaertner, Belitz, &c. [25] Currie, on the effects of cold and tepid water. London. [26] Kolbany, Beobacht. ueber den Nutzen des lauen und kalten Wassers im Scharlachf. Pressburg, 1808. [27] Reuss, d. Wesen der Exantheme. Nuernberg, 1818. Vol. III. [28] A. Edler von Froehlichsthal, Abhandl. ueber d. kraeftige, sichere und schnelle Wirkung der Uebergiessungen &c. im Faul-, Nerven-, Gallen-, Brenn- und Scharlachfieber. Wien, 1842. [29] L. Hesse, in Rust's Magaz. Vol. XXVII. 1. [30] R. Steimmig, Erfahr. und Betracht. ueber d. Scharlachfieber und seine Behandl. Karler., 1828. [31] P. ex. Reich, who kept the sick-room quite cold, and made his scarlet-patients walk out in any weather; he assures us that he cured his patients in five days, an interesting fact, for the correctness of which, however, the Doctor alone is responsible.