The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3905, 5 July 1881, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1881.

It is with much concern that we hear of the increase of scarlet fever on the Thames; in fact, so prevalent is the disease and so ineffectual have leen all the efforts made up to the present to stamp it out that the surgeons hare recommended the closing of the public schools. The belief is that the disease is spread by the children attending school, and some cases are mentioned where children have been allowed by their parents to attend school at that very stage of the disease when it is most apt to affect others. Some time ago, we wrote at length on this subject, and even printed for distribution directions for the proper treatment of the disease, but notwithstanding all the efforts, both of the authorities and the medical men, the disease appears to be gaining ground. The surgeons have no doubt some grounds for their statements that the disease is spread 'principally by children, but we have heard other persons say that the incautiousness of grown-up people in visiting persons suffering from the disease, is a more \ frequent cause of the fever reaching households. It does not at all follow tuat the personslwho visit a patient suffering from scarlet fever contract the disease, but they at the same time frequently^carry it into a household, some members of which are perhaps predisposed to sickness, and'they are at once attacked. If the greatest care is not exercised by all, both.by school teachers } grown up persons, parents and children, we may be visited by a,wave of sickness of untold severity. A. correspondent of the Stockton (Cal.) Herald givea the following as a cure for small pox, and also for scarlet fever, which, under present circumstances may be of interest;—" I herewith append a recipe which has been used to my knowledge in hundreds of cases. It will prevent or curethe small pox, even though the pittings are filling. When Jenner discovered the cow pox in England the world of science hurled an avalanche of fame on his head, but when the most scientific school of medicine in the world—that of Pans — published this recipe as a panacea for small pox it passed unheeded. It is unfailiDg as fate, and conquers in every instance. It is perfectly harmless when taken by a well person. It will also cure scarlet fever. Here is the receipt as I have used it, and cured many children of scarlet fever. Here it is as I have used it to cure the smallpox, when learned physicians said the patient must die:— Bulphate of sine, one graiu; fox-glove (digitalis),' one grain; one-half a teaspoonful of sugar ; mix with two tablespoonfuls of water. When the above has been thoroughly mixed, add four ounces of water. Take a teaspoonful every hour. Either diseaso will disappear in 12 hours. lfor a child smaller doses according to age.