Remarks on Stapedectomy

the clothing is removed.Nothing should be scattered about the floor, but all materials carefully gathered in a sheet and placed at once in the receptacle for disinfec- tion.After getting up the hands should be well cleansed and constantly anointed, and I have known some mothers to keep the patient's hands wrapped in cotton cloths to prevent the scales from escaping.Since adopting the measures here mentioned, my impression is that the disease is much less contagious than before.I have kept no records of cases ; but those of recent date can be recalled, and 1 remember none in private practice, within the last year when it spread to any other person after my first visit, even when isolation was impossible.Such results may be, in part, accidental, but I will mention some of the cases to show the extent of exposure.Case I. Family containing five children between the ages of one and eleven years, none of whom were protected by previous attack.Two of these were taken sick at the same time, and at my first visit the rash was just appearing.In one the sickness was moder- ately severe, in the other very mild.It was impossible to keep the other children out of the sick-room ;