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precautions had been taken in the care and nursing of the patient, both during
the attack and after its severe symptoms had subsided. Exposure to cold
and draughts, and the too early rising from the sick bed, and frequently the
the taking of the little patients into the streets when hardly convalescent, are
the great factors in the causation of these secondary attacks from Pneumonia
and Bronchitis. It is unfortunately a fact that hundreds of cases of Measles
are treated annually without medical advice, and it is just in these instances
that the complications most frequently arise. Many times is the same
sorrowful story repeated that no advice has been sought until Pneumonia
has supervened, measles itself being looked on as a harmless disease, and,
therefore, the parents or guardians have not had the advantage of receiving
direction as to the proper care of their children.