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when they come to be practitioners, they may be 

 able to form an opinion upon the views that are put 

 forward, and may be in a position to pursue certain 

 branches of scientific investigation, if opportunity 

 offers, and thus extend our knowledge of the nature 

 and treatment of disease. 



Of the Treatment of Slight Fever. We may learn 

 something concerning the treatment of the feverish 

 state, if we study carefully the changes which go on 

 in our own bodies when we ourselves are suffering 

 from a slight feverish cold, and observe carefully the 

 effects of the remedies we think well to take for the 

 alleviation of the symptoms. The instinct which 

 prompts a patient suffering from the feverish con- 

 dition to. seek warrnth, and to prefer plenty of blankets 

 and the neighbourhood of a good fire, to a cold bath 

 or the free application of cold air to the surface, is 

 probably preservative, and experience justifies the 

 adoption of such a course. All the unpleasant feelings 

 experienced by any one who* has a feverish cold, dis- 

 appear for the time if he takes a warm bath. If the 

 skin can be made to act freely, by keeping the sur- 

 face warm, internal heat is got rid of very quickly, 

 and thus the temperature of the body kept down. 

 Mr. Garrod has proved by experiment that by simply 

 removing the clothes from the healthy body the tem- 

 perature of the blood rises as much as two degrees of 

 Fahrenheit's scale, while, very soon after the skin has 

 been again protected by a badly conducting artificial 



