As soon as I observe these appearances, I immediately send the child home; for I have ascertained, beyond a doubt, that the disease is contagious, and if a child be suffered to remain with it in the school, the infection will speedily spread among the children.
As children are frequently apt to burn or scald themselves, I will here insert a method for adoption in such cases.

It is very simple, yet infallible; at least, I have never known it to fail.

It is no other than the application of common writing ink.

One of my own children burnt its hand dreadfully, and was cured by immediately washing it all over with that liquid.

Several children burnt their hands against the pipe that was connected with the stove in the school-room, and were cured by the same means.