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Here we see a deflation from the ordinary habits of the smallpox, as it has been observed that the presence of the measles suspends the action of the variolous matter. The result of all my trials with the virus on the human subject has been uniform.
That is very nice," thought the rabbit. "I have not had to travel far before finding my fortune. I wonder if there is a cure for rheumatism in that stump, too?" So he asked about it. "Of course, your rheumatism can be cured in here," came the quick answer. "In fact, I guarantee to cure any disease measles, chicken-pox, mumps and even toothache.
And other sicknesses came to us from the white men, the like of which we had never known and could not understand. Smallpox, likewise measles, have I heard these sicknesses named, and we died of them as die the salmon in the still eddies when in the fall their eggs are spawned and there is no longer need for them to live.
For two or three weeks this continued, when our hearts were saddened, and our duties and cares greatly increased, by the breaking out of the measles among our Indians. This epidemic was caused, by the coming in to our country of some free-traders who had lately had the disease.
Mrs Bantem was washing up the things afterwards, and talking about dinner; Harry Lant was picking up all the odds and ends, to carry off to the great elephant, standing just then in the best bit of shade he could find, flapping his great ears about, blinking his little pig's eyes, and turning his trunk and his tail into two pendulums, swinging them backwards and forwards as regular as clockwork, and all the time watching Harry, when Measles says all at once, "Here come some lunatics!"
As a general rule the infectious fevers, the so-called childish diseases such as measles, chicken-pox, and whooping-cough are less common in adolescence than they are in childhood, while the special diseases of internal organs due to their overwork, or to their natural tendency to degeneration, is yet far in the future.
So day after day, he kept on tramping Broadway, haunting the agencies, in the hope of something turning up. His companion, absorbed in his own gloomy reflections, tapped the pavement nervously with his cane, and Weston continued: "Got a letter from the missis this morning. The kids got to have more clothes, there's measles in the town and mumps in the next village.
Ordinarily the period of incubation is from three to four days, with a premonitory fever of from twenty-four to seventy-two hours' duration, when the rash appears; this case must therefore have been infected in utero. Lomer of Hamburg tells of the case of a woman, twenty-two years, unmarried, pregnant, who had measles in the eighth month, and who gave birth to an infant with measles.
"Wait till you see the one she is making for you," Betty said. "You'll love it!" "What is that you are going to love?" asked a voice outside the open door. "Measles?" "Oh, Bob! Who ever heard the like?" demanded Betty. "Love measles, indeed. Why What makes you look so queer?" "Greatest thing you ever heard, girls!" cried Bob, his face very red and his eyes shining.
Rokesmith asked him. After some perplexed reflection, Sloppy answered, brightening, 'He called it something as wos wery long for spots. Rokesmith suggested measles. 'Mrs Boffin will be sorry to hear this, said Rokesmith. 'Mrs Higden said so, sir, when she kep it from her, hoping as Our Johnny would work round. 'But I hope he will? said Rokesmith, with a quick turn upon the messenger.
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