Hæmaturia in the Pre-Eruptive Stage of Measles

On the 1st January, 1931, a boy, six years of age, became ill with sneezing, indefinite malaise and slight backache. There had been no previous illness. On the evening of the second day he passed, per urethram, without pain, what was thought to be pure blood. I saw him at 8.30 p.m. and found him in bed with a temperature of 101'4? F. and a pulse-rate of 112. The pharynx and nose were congested, but the retinse, skin, lungs, heart, abdomen and limbs revealed nothing abnormal. The spleen was not felt, and there was no trace of oedema. About 10 fluid ounces of bright red, hemorrhagic urine lay in a receptacle by the bedside, and on microscopical