THE MEASLES EPIDEMIC.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 239, 16 January 1875, Page 2

THE MEASLES EPIDEMIC.

The following letter appeared in a recent number of the Otago It itness. It may be found of great usefulness to settlers in country districts where the services of a medical man are not always obtainable :—

Sir, —The wide-spread prevalence of this disorder at present in the Province is very much to be lamented, hundreds of children being prevented from attending school, and in too many instances cases have ended fatally. Measles is one of those diseases which is intended by nature to be a mild one; but from want of attention and frequently improper treatment principally among the working classes this disease runs a course attended with much fatality. It is therefore most desirable that a knowledge of the best remedies to be adopted when children and adults are attacked should be as extensively circulated as possible throughout the Province. From a periodical lately perused it is manifestly certain that the homeopathic treatment of this disease is undoubtedly the most efficacious, there being rarely or never any case ending fatally, if taken in time, when treated by the following homeopathic medicine: — 1. For the fever, catarrhal symptoms, and during the eruption, Aconite and Pulsatilla. Eight drops of Aeon, into a tumbler of cold boiled water, aud eight drops of Puls, into another tumbler of same. Under six years a dessert spoonful alternately every hour, over six a tablespoonful. 2. For aching of the limbs and shooting pains in the chest, with laboured respiration, take Bryonia.

3. In excessive sickness and vomiting a pilule now and again of Ipecacuanha. 4. For the head symptoms Belladona and Gelscminum.

The testimony of upwards of fifty of the most eminent physicians and doctors in England, France. Germany, and the United States, is recorded as to the infallible curative results which attend the administration of the medicines quoted. Concerning them, Dr. Dalzell, Malvern, asserts : “ I have never had a death from measles under homeopathic treatment. The action of pulsatilla and aconite is most satisfactory, and infinitelj' preferable to the cooling salines and mild aperients, which often contribute towards a fatal result.” Dr. Moore, of Liverpool, states ; “ Having practised homeopathy for a quarter of a century, I cannot call to mind a death from measles where it had been under homeopathic treatment.” Dr. Ussher, Wandsworth, says, “Fatality in measles is a rare event u ith homeopathic men. I have not seen one since I adopted similia similibus curantur for a guide.” One more quotation from Dr. Hale, Bochdale, who states, “ During the thirty-three years I have treated cases of measles, I do not recollect of having lost one.” There is similar testimony from the reports of numerous homeopathic dis. pensaries and hospitals in Europe and America, that the medicines mentioned are infallible.

These medicines are procurable in this Province, either in the liquid state (tinctures) or in pilules (solid). Parents whose children have not yet had the measles, should immediately obtain a supply ; and if administered according to the directions given, they need have no dread of the visitation of the measles into their families.—l am, &c.,