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a regular course. The typhoid cojidition is that state in which an 

 animal system, already greatly weakened by a severe disease, and 

 perhaps further prostrated by a specific disease-poison, is subject- 

 ed to a species of poisoning by the retained chemical products of 

 the waste of the tissues. 



Types of Fever. These are as characteristic as the types of in- 

 flammation, and of the same kind. The strong type of fever 

 which attends on an acute inflammation in an otherwise healthy 

 vigorous system, is spoken of as a high or iyiflatiimatory fever. 

 The weak type which occurs in a broken down or debilitated sys- 

 tem, or in connection with the action of a specific disease germ, 

 or with the saturation of the system by waste chemical products 

 is known as low, typhoid (better typhous^, or adynamic fever. 

 That form which persists in the utterly debilitated .system, where 

 the power of assimulation is practically lo.st, is known as hectic. 



TREATMENT OF INFLAMMATION AND FEVER. 



Treatment will be guided very largely by the type of the at- 

 tendant fever. If that is of a high type, with a hard, full, rapid 

 pulse, bright red mucous membranes, a clear eye, and well sus- 

 tained strength in a strong, vigorous animal, what is known as 

 antiphlogistic (depleting, depressing) treatment is admissible at 

 the outset. But in many cases with a low type of fever, a weak, 

 rapid pulse, pallid, yellow, or livid mucous membranes, a coated 

 tongue, a dull or sunken eye, much depression and prostration, 

 swaying on the limbs in walking, pendant head, ears, eyelids and 

 lips, and varying and irregular temperature of the limbs, etc. , 

 such measures are forbidden from tl^e first, and tonics and stimu- 

 lants are demanded from the outset. Between the two extremes 

 there are many grades, which demand a judiciously adjusted in- 

 termediate treatment. The general principles only of each char- 

 acteristic form of treatment can be here formulated, it being un- 

 derstood that no two cases can be most advantageously treated in 

 precisely the same way, but that according to its special grade 

 each case will demand its own specific management applied ac- 

 cording to the skill of the physician. 



Regimen. An antiphlogistic diet will consist in a moderate or 

 very sparing amount of non-stimulating food of easy digestion 



