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the best sanitary surroundings possible, and avoid most 

 scrupulously either bleeding, or blistering, or putting in 

 setons. Give no lowering medicine, neither aconite noi* 

 tartar emetic. If constipation is decided, a small dose o^ 

 salts will remove it. 



When there is much ^swelling or " bloating '' of the stom^ 

 ach, it may be removed by carbonate of ammonia, one ounce 

 in gruel, repeated, if necessary. 



The diet should be low, and some writers recommend no 

 solid food at all, but feeding on thin gruel, linseed tea, or 

 slippery elm bark water. 



Slight diarrhea is believed often to be of advantage, and 



should not be checked ; but wdien it is violent it may be held 



up with some astringent, as 



No. 302. Gallic acid, i oz. 



Gruel, J pint. 



Or, 



No. 303. Alum in powder, f oz. 



Milk, 1 quart. 



"When the w^orst of the attack is over it is well to hasten 

 the return to health by mixing a teaspoonful of sulphate of 

 iron wdth the food several times a day. 



Mr. Finlay Dun has found ounce doses of the acid sul-- 

 phite of soda, given twice daily, to lower the temperature 

 and ease the breathing. In the second stage of the disease 

 he has also derived decided benefit by giving, every three or 

 four hours, one or two ounces of whiskey or of oil of tur- 

 pentine. 



For a tonic mixture ^Ir. Jekyll recommends : — 



No. 304. Snlphate of copper, 1 part. 



Water, 4 parts. 



Dissolve and add solution of ammonia until it begins to precipitate. 

 The dose is half an ounce every six or eight hours, as soon as the 

 feverish symptoms have abated. 



Prof. John Gamgee, who made an elaborate report on this 

 disease to the United States Government, published by the 



