The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-20
THE FEVER IN AFRICA.
Treatment of the Disease by the Natives
DIR. LfvGngst0ne's Account of his Cure.

The following extract is from Dr. David
Livingstone's narrative of his travels in Africa.
It may prove interesting at this time to our
readers:
son the thrtieth OF May was seized with
fever for the first time. We reached the town
of Linyanti on the twenty third ana as my
habits were suddenly changed from great
exertion to comparative inactivity at the com
menCement Of the cold season [ suffered from
q severe attack Of stOppage Of the secretions,
closely resembling q common cold. Warm
baths and drinks relieved me, and I had no
idea but that / was now recovering from the
effects Of a chill got by leaving the warm
lily worship at my peoples fire.
"But on the second Of June q relapse showed
the NJ OkOlOlO, who knew the complaint that
any indspOsition was no other than the fever,
with which have since made more intim-
ate acquaintance.
Gold east winds prevail at this time; and
as they come over the extensive flats mum
dated by the Chobe, as well as many other
drying up, they may be supposed to be laden
with malaria and Watery vapOr, and many
cases of fever follow.
"The usual symptoms of stopped secretion
are Notwithstanding and q feeling of cold
ness, though the skin is quite hot to the touch
of another.
"The heat in the axillm, over the heart and
the region Of the stomach, was, in my case,
1902, but along the spine and at the nape Of
the neck 1889.
'The internal processes were all, with the
exception OF the kidneys and liver, stopped
the latter, in it's efforts to free the blood Of
noXio,1s particles, oftens secretes enormous
quantities Of bile.
"There are pains along the spine, and frontal
headache. Anxious to ascertain whether the
natives possessed the knowledge OF any rem
edy Of which we were ignorant, I requested
the assistance of one of Sekeletus doctors.
He put some roots into o pot with water, and
when it was boiling, placed it on spot be-
meath blanket thrown around both me and
it. This produced no Immediate effect. He
then got a small bundle Of different kinds Of
medicinal woods, and, burning them In q
potsherd nearly to ashes used the smoke and
hot vapor arising from them as an auxiliary
to the other in causing diaphoress.
"I fondly hoped that they had more
but after being stewed In their yapor baths,
smoked like q red herring over green twigS,
and charmed secundem artem, I concluded
that could cure the fever more quickly than
they can.
eff we employ wet sheet and g. mild ape
rient in combination with qunine, in addition
to the native remedies, they are an import
ant aid in curing the fever. as they seem to
have the same stimulating effects on the ali
mentary canal as these means have on the
external surface.
"Purgatives, general bleeding, or indeed
any violent remedies, are injurious, and the
appearance of hepatc irruption near the
mouth is regarded as an evidence that no in
ternal organ is In danger.
''There is good deal in not giving in to
this disease. He who is low-spirted and apt
to despond at every attack will die sooner
than the man who is not Of such q melan-
chOlic nature