The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-09-11

IA 10 VIII show pretty freely on the face :
the patent must submit TO the bath until il
comes out. If hard to sweat. keeb addin 9
| not water; but as son as the perspiration
appears freely on the face take out the feet
wipe dry and put him regularly to bed
| place two bottles with hot water to his feet
cover him with one sheet and one blanket
let the room be ventilated, but never allow
your patient to lie in a draft of air nor touch
! aim with cold water or cold hands below
the eyes when perspiring. Let your con-
Vers1tion be encouraging-don'tp permit him
70 talk much. and keep all the takers out OF
| the room. Next and thirdly. put into =
Washbowl about one quart of cistern water,
take one tablespoonful of spirits of cam phor,
aud one tablespoonful spirits. of ammo
ma, and one tablespoonful of common salt,
and put into the washbowI, and put in say
two pounds of ice. This | call 'EsedatiVe
water" Prepare three or four cloths cot
ton or linen, about three inches wide, and
three thicknesSeS of cloth, and long enough
70 reach from temple to temple-keep this
In your DJWl OF SedatiVe water, and apply to
the forehead as rapidly you please, say
change every minute, taking care TO wiring
ali the water out of the cloth, so as TO wet
his pillow as little as possible. have never
yet seen u case where | could not control
and and keep patient Well at himself, by
applying these ice cloths rapidly TO the
forehead Give the patient good lemonade,
As cold as ice will make it, about one third
OF a tumbler full as often as he wants 1t. Ii
acts on the kidneys ana assists well the
urinary organs, great item in the cure oil
yellow fever; if he becomes tired of the
lemonade, give ice water, about tumbler
one third full at a drink, and ice to eat in
small quantities; after this manner satisfy
his thirst. In the meantime keep a watch
and see that the perspiratiou goes on and
keep it up gently after you begin to reduce
the fever until he is well cooled off-and this
requires usually from twelve to thirty-six
hours-about twenty -four hours is common
70 IL,
Take no medicine from beginning TO end.
nor do anything TO disturb the stomach. |
rarely have occasion to use any remedy for
sick stomach, and if | do | take flaX-seed
meal, mix 10 dough with Sherry wine and
sprinkle in few hops; apply poultice of
this to the stomach and it never fails to
quiet it-but not one case in twenty requires
it.
AS soon as you have cooled down the
fever, take Il good instrument and relieve
the bowels-use only water from your els
tern 1t coOlS the body, and goes far to pre-
vent what physicians call a return OF fever.
Just as long as there is any heat about the
head work on the ice cloths, and about every
two hours pour half the wafer out of your
Washbowl, for the melting OF ice causes
an accumulation of water, and add half a
tablespoonful of each camphor, ammonia
and salt; this keeps up the proper strength
of the sedative water, aud keeps plenty
of ice all the time in your bOWI-there can
HOb Dc Too IDuth nor TIE SeuaUlNC water
too cool. If during the time the perspira-
ton should check, put other hot bottles to
the feet, hot brick, wrapped up in cloth
and wet with vinegar, so as to cause Il Sream
place this about the knees and it never fails
to produce the sweat. But having cleared
the bowels at commencem ent there is no
getting up, no airing, of the patient as
when oil or pills are given, but the patient
goes right along persplring until you freeze
out the fever with these ice cloths; and hav
fran = &c
bowels relieved by the second injection, if
he asks for 1t, commence next the
FEEDING.
Ia about two hours after he has cooled
off, give him little rice water, chicken
water, half cup of black tea; in three
hours alter this give him half cup of good
coffee, quarter of an apple we'll baked
and a little toast with small quantity of
fresh butter on it. l prefer the coffee, but
he can use tea, if he prefers it, and after
this feed often, and with any light diet.
When one OF my patients is free of fever
his stomach has not been injured by medi
cine-it acts and digests well, and he can
eat almost anything he likes in small guam
Titles.
In twelve hours after the fever has left.
the patient must be spOnged off--take bay
rum or brandy and water strong enough for
grOg; make it rather hotter than milk
warm, t.5hoa eponge and sponge his face
arms and bodS VEIL %F bE az f6ponSs he's
cover; wipe dry with towel as you go on,
and when done you can uncover and ar
range his clothes so as to not to fatigue nor
tire him--put on clean, Well-dried Clothes
and change the bee clothes -and this done.
i consider my patient safe. Let him lie at
ease, out of cover.
And now the patient can use good porter
as drink, and lemonade with ice water
but he will not require much, as there is
utlittle thirst; be cautious not to let him
Fl, l., Il Ill .adtA
Let him sit up as he feels able, not so as %
tire nor fatigue himself; he knows best.
Keep to the room about four days after the
clothes are changed, and then go out even
ing and morning. Be careful to open the
bowels once every a hours with all injec-
ton of cold water, until you become right.
In few days the patient is up and can go
about his business.
With married ladies, who are in a condi-
ton to require tender treatment, never use
the foot bath, as that, in a majority of cases,
brings on an abortion. Instead of foot
bath take lime juice and brandy, half and
half, make it as hot as she will bear it, and
sponge from the knees down and over the
feet Tor four or five minutes-then take dry
mustard, and rub on with your hand from
the knees to and over the feet as long as she
wal stand it, say from five to ten minutes
wipe off and put her to bed, cover with one
sheet and one blanket. as before, and en-
the patient to lie as still as possible
keep hands and feet under cover, and the
cover well on the legs, arms and body dur
ing the sweating process this rule must be
observed and attended to while the fever
lasts with all patients. Apply two bottles of
hot water, one to each foot, and you will
get up a gentle perspiration, all that is ne
cessary; if the bottles don't produce it, try
the hot brick wet with vinegar, as before
directed, and proceed as in other cases all
through / never failed yet, and l have
cured many in this condition. Once again, |
give no medicine, and watch and take every
care not to sicken the stomach, especially
ladies in the condition last mentioned. |
hate oil-it should never be used. My
patients never relapse-nor out of 300, at
least, have never known one to have the
disease a second time. l do not believe it.
J. A. III. CLEVELAND.