Show HINTS ABOUT SMALLPOX WE have met with a com eom communication munica in an eastern paper on the subject of smallpox which contains some information that maybe may be of value to eur our ur readers at the present time the writer was attacked with var carh lloid loid in a mild form so mild that he had but two small pustule pus tules i in the edge of his hair and he did not know what ailed him until he gave the disease to his family his vaccination had lie lle held heid id good for thirty years but as a proof that vaccinations will run out in some systems and not in others he quotes the case of the man from whose arm he was vaccinated vaccina ted he died from what the doctors called smallpox the effects of vaccination having beeg beel driven out of his system by hard bard drink this writer thinks that the safer way is to vaccinate again especially after a hard fit of sickness after communicating ni cating the disease to his family he says he lie lost a little girl seven years old he kvas ivas was told by a physician that she died for want of a little espirit spirit made into milk punch which would have sent the disease to the surface after that he tried this remedy and found round it very successful eess cess ful milk punch he says answers for drink nutriment and tho the necessary stimulant for four to six days the greatest danger from contagion he thinks is when the patient gets about he carried a patient through in a house of six families of some thirty persons and not one ond took it all the clothing bedding carpets etc he sank under water over night this he says will kill the infection sure he protests strongly against the practice of burning any substance rags straw paper etc that has hag been in contact with the disease for he says it will spread it as far as the smoke reaches the patient to whom he alludes caught the disease through the smoke of a burning straw bed some seven ty five nive rods from his house he would have taken it he asserts a mile oss off if he smelled the smoke he recommends an upper room for the patients an ana and ia that he or she be kept warm clean and suitably stimulated especially when the disease is on the turn or the second fever is about leaving lea iea when whon tho th system needs bracing and one may die for the want of a few spoonfuls of spirit out of fifteen h undred hundred cases caseb but two have died he says under one mans treatment in the above way in addition to the above we think care should be taken to exclude dogs from rooms where smallpox pat patients ants are lying or where conta contagion lo 10 can be caught we were told this t Is morning that a large dog had been seen to go in and out of the premises in this city where the yellow nag flag is raised and the smallpox is known to exist in this wayan awayan way an animal might be the means of spreading contagion through through a neighborhood without the least east suspicion being excited as to the cause or the manner in which those attacked had been exposed |