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fever has subsided, and there reinauis merely some debiHty with 

 a remnant of the inflammatory exudation to be removed or 

 organized into tissue, or when an abscess has developed and burst, 

 the tonics must be even more freely given, the mineral acids may 

 even give place to preparations of iron or cod-liver oil, and the 

 diet must be made increasingly liberal. But throughout the 

 whole progress of the disease the bowels should be carefully 

 watched. Costiveness may quickly undo all that has been gained, 

 hence any indication of this should be met by laxative food 

 (boiled flaxseed, etc.), or, this failing, by injections or laxatives. 

 Similarly, if a freer action of the kidneys seems to be necessary 

 for elimination of waste matters or to reduce fever, diuretics 

 should be continuously kept up. 



Treatment of Adynamic Infi^ammation and Fever. In 

 treating low asthenic or ady^iamic itiflamviation all depression and 

 depletion is to be carefully avoided. Even laxatives must be em- 

 ployed with extreme caution. If absolutely necessary it is best to 

 give them in small (half) doses and supplement their action by 

 liberal injections of hot water. Elimination of waste matter from 

 the blood and system is still to be sought, but it must be by stim- 

 jilating diuretics (sweet spirits of nitre, carbonate, acetate, or mu- 

 riate of ammonia, digitalis), and direct stinndants and tonics must 

 be given from the first (ammonia, wine, strong ale, whisky, 

 brandy, ether, gentian, calumba, nux vomica). For thehor.se 

 the following may serve as an example : Recipe : Sweet spirits 

 of nitre, four ounces ; sulphuric ether, two ounces ; tincture of 

 gentian, ten ounces ; digitalis, one dram. Mix. Dose, two 

 ounces in a pint of cool water four times a day. When there is 

 great debility and prostration ammoniacal and alcoholic stimulants 

 must be given freely, while if the fever heat rises very unduly 

 the cooling diuretics (citrate, tartrate, or acetate of potassa, or 

 nitre, etc.), and even sedatives (bromide of potassium, hydro- 

 bromic acid, chloral hydrate, salacin, salicylate of soda), must be 

 resorted to. If there is any indication of a special depressing poi- 

 son in the system, or of the absorption of septic or other noxious 

 matter from a wound, antiseptics (hydrochloric acid, or salicylic 

 acid, sulphite of soda, quinia, or chlorate of potassa) may be ad- 

 vantageously added to the prescription. 



In these cases of asthenic inflammation, as in the advanced and 



