The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-05
Edited by DIR DAVID H.

1 Typhoid Fever and it's Home Treat 1 ment-At this season of the year | there are nearly always more eases | of typhoid fever than at any other I time, and for that reason it is an l order for the Home Health club to | discuss the subject again. With pro per home treatment typhoid becomes l one of the least dangerous of fevers I In the first place, the regular hydro 1 therapeutic treatment for fevers, as have often described it, should be | thoroughly carried out, and then the | question of diet and massage will constitute all of the necessary re maining treatment, with the eXcep- tion that enemas of about one-haIf gallon of warm water, containing one | tablespoonful of salt, should be given every night until symptoms of diar- rhoea appear; then either stop them | or give every other night until the | typhoid discharge appears, after | which the principal danger is past. Nearly every symptom of tympan- ties. hemorrhage, and fever can be 1 almost entirely prevented by a strict | adherence to the fasting principle. Absolutely no food, liquid or solid, | should be given until the bowel dis 1 charge above referred to has appear l ed Casually about the seventh or the 1 ninth day) and then 1t must be given | in very small quantities and slowly
 increased Give all the pure water the patient wants at any time and all | times.
 | It is well to remember that no ac- | cumuIations, either of a healthful or | unhealthful character, can take place | in the system except by the consunp-
 ton of food, water or air. When the 1 bright sunlight is admitted into our | dwellings it reveals accumulation Of | dust, filth or cobwebs, unmanifest but for the introduction of light. Just ! so when ''the creature we call a
 disease germ has found Judgement in
 , our inner being, and forthwith kin
 1 dies a big fire, we may know, but for 1 the presence of material with which to build such fires, there would be . no fever, because there is none of these materials upon which the fever
 may feed, which are properly speak | ing, waste or refuse from over-feed- | ing or improper living in some way. 1 Now, although this interior fire causes intense suffering, and needs t l be extinguished with all reasonable ! speed, yet a real service is being done
 for the afflicted one, because in ac- | cordance with some of the higher | Ac1HoT 4Ie1Io1O SliiNIIlS lO SlS-1Ii 1 house" for us. We need, then, not only to secure relief from pain, but l to cleanse and put into order such as will require no further renovatins 1 for time, at least, these dwelling 1 places where the dirt-1oving bug has | found herself so much at home.
 | Opinions differ as to feeding the patient, but here common reason must grasp the helm. The tongue is 1 the direct indicator of bodily needs; and until it is no longer coated, the patient needs no food of any kind. Pure water and that alone, will sui | flee every need; though, if the suf- | ferer decidedly wishes a very little diluted sweet milk or fresh butter ! milk it may be given.
 Is there reason for this prescrip- tion of food? Suppose yourself carry ing a heavy burden for a long and weary distance; your strength at last gives way, and you sink down ex- hausted. The burden you have been carrying has caused your collapse, remember. Next, suppose some as sistant is sent for, and upon arriving where you lie at once prescribes that your burden be increased, and you
 at once arise and go forward with
 it. A heavy load, such as is laid upon
 a poor, tired beast sometimes, might
 cause you to stagger along under such
 conditions; but like him also, you
 might suddenly die from lack of
 breath. Would it not be wiser to
 ighten the burden you had borne, or,
 f possible, remove 1t entirely, and
 allow you to rest? Well, the burden
 of waste, largely unused food accu-
 mutations doubtless was the cause
 of your fever. Now, lay the load
 down utterly and leave it until all
 trace of the typhoid poison is gone