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REST AND WARMTH. 



perspiration by those simple plans known to all, and 

 by the introduction of sudorific remedies, the feverish 

 attack may be shortened, and its intensity lessened. 

 By free perspiration, not only are various materials 

 removed from the blood, but thirst is excited, the 

 gratification of which insures the solution and sub- 

 sequent elimination of more material which might 

 otherwise be devoted to the abnormal nutrition of 

 bioplasm, leading to those serious consequences which 

 have been already referred to. The moderate perspi- 

 ration excited by exercise conduces to health in this 

 way, and renders needless the occasional use of the 

 warm bath. If free sweating be artificially induced at 

 the right moment, it is not improbable that a feverish 

 attack may sometimes be altogether averted. More- 

 over, free excretion from one surface is not unfre- 

 quently followed by free action on the part of the 

 other excreting organs, and in this way a quantity of 

 material, the presence of which in the blood would be 

 detrimental, is got rid of before any harm has resulted. 



But a slight feverish attack may be cured by simple 

 rest and warmth. Very often twelve hours' unin- 

 terrupted rest is the only remedy that is required to 

 cut short many an attack of feverishness indeed, 

 healthy constitutions frequently "sleep off" their 

 feverish ailments, and many children who go to sleep 

 in a highly feverish state, wake up twelve hours after- 

 wards perfectly well. 



I have often been led to suppose that a sharp attack 



