432 DRUNKEN FIT. 



DRUNKEN FIT. 



Treatment In no respect is the curative power of water 

 more striking than in its effects upon a drunken person. The great 

 thing is to pour plenty of cold water upon the head, till the patient 

 "comes to." The dripping wet-sheet, shallow bath, and all other 

 means of cooling are also useful. If we can vomit the patient 

 plentifully with tepid or warm water, so much the better. Cold 

 injections, in the fit especially, are very useful. Treated in this 

 way, much of the headache, nausea, feverishness, etc., that follow a 

 debauch, are thrown off. Sailors understand well the proper 

 method of bringing a drunken man to his senses. If one of their 

 number becomes intoxicated, they tie a rope about him and throw 

 him overboard into the sea. The shock quickly arouses his senses, 

 and the submersion serves to remove the fever. 



DELIRIUM TREMENS. 



The great thing in treating delirium tremens is to cool suffi- 

 ciently the whole mass of the circulation; to do this we can hardly 

 go amiss in the use of cold water, applying both externally and 

 internally in the most profuse manner, although we should not 

 apply the douche or allow water from a height. Water will make 

 tne patient sleep when nothing else will. 



DYSPEPSIA. 



In the first place, the dyspeptic should take as much exercise 

 in the open air, regularly and daily, as he can bear without exhaus- 

 tion. He should become fatigued, but not exhausted. 



In the second place, he should go to rest early and at the same 

 hour every night. He should also rise early in the morning and 

 observe the same regularity as to time. If he should not happen to 

 sleep well every night, he should yet observe these rules strictly. 

 His bed and pillow should be hard rather than otherwise, his sleep- 

 ing room as airy as may be, and he should use only enough clothing 

 to be quite comfortable. 



A most important rale is, that the dyspeptic eat precisely at the 

 same hour each day. If he is unavoidably thrown out of his time, 

 he should drink some water and wait till the next regular meal. 

 The utmost regularity in the times of eating is of the greatest 

 importance to one who is suffering in this way. 



The most important rule of all regarding aliment is that which 

 relates to quantity. First, quantity, and second, quality, both of 

 which are of great consequence in their place. The rule of all rules 

 is, not to over-eat. If tne dyspeptic will but persevere in taking 

 that amount, and that amount only, however small it may be, which 

 his stomach can receive and digest comfortably, he will soon find 

 himself on the high road to health; and it will surprise any one to 



