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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...minutes, "giving freely cool water for his intense thirst. Upon his withdrawal he was bluish, shivering and nearly pulseless; the jaws trembled with the cold. He was wrapped unwiped in a woolen shawl, and soon fell into a most peaceful sleep; the skin had lost its burning heat, and a reaction soon set in; a healthy warmth and gentle perspiration were established, and the diarrhoea was arrested. The baths were repeated several times after this. In the meanwhile quinine and whisky were given freely, also beef-tea and cool milk, with addition of lime-water. Subnitrate of bismuth and pepsin mixed in powders were administered during convalescence to restrain diarrhoea and assist digestion, until the suffering mucous coat of the alimentary tract should be entirely relieved. The recovery was complete. From my experience in a large number of cases, I have the utmost confidence in recommending the plan of cold baths to the profession. I beg you, gentlemen, to try it. Not only will it be found invaluable in " summer complaint," but in pneumonia, capillary bronchitis and scarlet fever, remitting and typhoid fevers; in short, whatever may be the disease (sun-stroke, par excellence), where a high fever exists. If the limits of an article like this would allow it, I could give numerous cases, in all the febrile forms of disease enumerated above, where the most satisfactory results have followed baths. The immersion plan is much better than the wet pack, because the radiation of the febrile heat is more rapid and equable from the surface of the body. I have used the pack about the chest and abdomen for many years in private and hospital practice, and I know well what I say when I repeat that it is not only more troublesome to apply, but of greatly inferior ...

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