The treatment in measles should consist in good nursing, rather than in medication. Owing to the inflammation of the membranes of the eyes, the patient should be kept in a darkened chamber, and the eyes occasionally bathed with a solution of borax, by dissolving half a teaspoonful in a tumblerful of water. Good judgment forbids that the patient should be sweltered, but that he should be kept comfortably warm and never allowed to cool off suddenly is also very important. When the eruption is slow to develop a good sweat will often bring it out; so will undue exposure, to cold drafts and the transportation out of a warm bed into a cold one or drinking immoderately of cold drinks either delay the development of the eruption or drive it back, and from this undoubtedly dangerous complications arise, like pneumonia, diphtheritic croup, and convulsions. A mouthful of cold water now and then is harmless, but on the whole the drinks should be quite warm; the cough and bronchitis alone would require that. Warm milk thoroughly beaten is the most suitable form of diet; broths and soups may be given for a change, so can a mixture of equal parts of weak hot tea and milk. The bowels should be moved with a mild laxative and if the fever runs very high, ten to fifteen drops of the sweet spirits of nitre, for a child five years old, in half wineglass of water every few hours will generally reduce the temperature. For the itching, the skin should be rubbed with equal parts of glycerine and warm water. The cough is generally the most troublesome feature, and the only symptom requiring regular medication; for this a good general cough mixture will serve every purpose, such as: Take: Compound mixture of liquorice, Syrup of wild cherry, of each 2 ounces Mix and give to a child four years old a teaspoonful every four hours; older or younger children in proportion. (_k_) Rose rash, sometimes called false or German measles is a comparatively trivial affection and of very little importance, for it never has any serious complications and lasts only twenty-four or forty-eight hours in the majority of cases. It is often mistaken for measles, and one attack affords no protection against recurrences. The eruption appears in small rose-colored spots or patches which are not elevated. It does not commence on the head, but appears on different parts of the body. The eruption may be preceded by headache, loss of appetite, occasionally vomiting, and more or less fever or chilly sensations. The affection of the eyes and air passages, especially the bronchitis which is characteristic of measles, are wanting in rose rash, and when we hear of children having had measles several times it is reasonable to presume that it was rose rash instead. This eruption hardly calls for treatment, but a mild laxative and a regulated diet would fulfill all requirements.