HOW TO CURE TYPHOID FEVER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 9, 4 March 1893, Page 214

HOW TO CURE TYPHOID FEVER.

Dr. Charles Page, in the Arena for September gives the • true method of curing typhoid fever. ’ Immerse the patient in a comparatively cold bath when the temperature reaches 101“ Fahr, to 103° Fahr., according to circumstances. The bath is given about 65° Fahr., the patient being immersed to the chin if the size of the bath admits, if not he sits in the water, which is dashed over the exposed parts, and he is actively rubbed all the time by an attendant, as an estential part of the treatment. He remains in the bath fifteen to twenty minutes. The bath may be required every three or four hours. The cold pack is employed meantime, or whenever the patient’s temperature is over 101°. The pack consists of two ply of coarse linen wrung from ice water, with two ply of the same, dry, outside, to be freshened every two or three hours according to judgment. Instead of mustard plasters, a thickly-folded towel, wrung tightly from cold water, to be placed on the chest. Food, he says, is a harmful drug. The patient needs rather co fast.