The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-09-02
ANOTHER NODE OF TREATING THE FEVER.

ANOTHER AOOE Or IhEATIN0 THE FEVER.
an.4ee ST. LOUIS, Mo. Sept /. 1878.
The following mode Of treating yellow fever is fur
uished by physician considerable reputation and
large psacsios In shis city and II 10 alleged that u
b faithfully carried out 1, will reduce the mortality
list iulIy thrss-fourtns:-Put the patient on cso,,
hard bed In \ well lighted and we'll ventilated room
keep the head constantly cool by repeated spongngs
with water from forty 70 any degrees Fahrenhsis;
keep the fees constantly warm BY bottles
Of hot water As soon as nausea begins
relieve by copious draushts Of hot water.
This must DO repeated whenever the nausea 10 DIS
tressiug. A thick towel, folded and wet in cold
water, laid tho stomach will also give relief.
Evseuas bowels By full injections daily tspid
until the fever sbatss using fouut tain syringe
Whenever enc can bs obtained. A loose crash towel
should be doubled, wet In tepd water aud worn over
the bowels constantly until the patient 10 GONZALES
cent Cool down the body near The normal heat as
possible by repeated spongtngs With tspid water.
When tue lever highest apply the pour bath 10 the
Place ths patient the bed his head over she
head Of ~ isoe down Put tub beneath and pour
cold wafer, say forty degrees Fahrenheit, over the
top Of tho mead from the crown forward.
Centipas this from tvsssy 10 thirty minutes, or nm
ul the semperaturo IL lowered GIVE this bath two
or three day, oiIen the fever requires
hs liver sbates and tho crisis stop all
odiolno or stm uianls Of any kind and no drinks ex
cept wafer and sour lemonade without sugar. The
patient shsuld e.t nothing during the fever except
thin water cruel made with meal and littls
sails. Lemon juice In water should be used freely
during the FEVER. Alter the pa.ient , convaesccnt
he must sas sparngy Of the piainsst food, little
bread aad fruiI THIS treatment can be carried out
By any cue tho aid y Doctor ana in the re-
ss s p! nssps hsv.
siealar bsnens IL is given
SUBSCRIPTIONS from CHARLESTON.
CHARLESTON, s c., Sept /, 1878
The Chamber 81 Commerce committees collected
81 400 yesterday for lever sufferers The aggregate
OF moacy contributions from Charleston exceeds
IS ou0 The csiIss.ions are sill going on.
THE YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION or
WASHINGTON APPEALED TO BIZ NEW or
LEANe
WASHINGTON, Sept i, 1873.
A meeting was held by tho Young Mems Chris,isn
Association this afternoon, Mr. Joseph Casey, pro-
siding In response 10 letter from the president OF
the Young Mems Christian Association In New or.
leans VINO says:-s'The Association makes this sp
peal you Tor help In the namc our comm on hu-
mantty In the couAdens hope that IL will lie ro
tpouaed to, becauss IL would seem proper that our
organization should be foremost good works OF
KIND"
Measures were taken for . generous response TO
this appeal. Other agencies arc elsewhere At WORK
WORK ON The MISSISSIPPI JgrTrEs susPENpED
on ACCOUNT or THE PEvER.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE nEaALp.1
WASHINGTON, sept 1. 1878.
Captain Micah H. Brown, Corps OF Engineers U nj
ted states army, VINO IL IN charge OF the Eads I'M
provemshw AZ tho mouth OF the Mississippi River,
arrived here yesterday with his family, having been
granted permission by telegraph from General wright
10 leave his post on account OF The prsvslescs Of the
yellow fever The wsrk the jettles has been tom
porariy suspended, BY order The CA,ei OF Engnsers
until the fever sbstea
Mas. CHILLI RIMovsp FROM UNION COURT, IN
THIS cIlY, TO QUARANTINE.
When ths Health Board were notified On Saturday
that MIRA Cell was prsstrsssd By disease wnioh IN
oil 10 symptoms resemsied yellow fever Dr. Janswy
wont In person 10 she house whore tns patient vas
lyins. Twas In . tenement at No 10 Unlss ecurs
that the woman lay. She 10 OF Italian birsb, has sv
slled considerably and suffered from mmiadics Of
similar nature Duriss sojourn Of several years IN
the south che has bees witness u NE rsvegsse