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headache, loss of appetite, and pains in the limbs. Severe shivering fits 

 follow, generally accompanied by vomiting. After a few hours of tliis, 

 more or less, a hot fit, equally intense, commences, at the end of which the 

 patient probably perspires freely (if steps have been taken to induce this 

 great desideratum in fever treatment). The attack is then over for the 

 time. It may recur the next, second, or third day. I have had perhaps 

 as much experience of fever as any one, before I understood how to avoid 

 it, and may briefly illustrate its course in my own case. Ten years ago 

 I had my first attack. I was prostrated, with intervals of delirium, for a 

 week, and had to take two months' leave of absence for change of air. For 

 about three years fits occurred at gradually lengthening intervals, and of 

 decreasing severity. They were induced by much exposure to the sun or 

 night air, over-fatigue, or irregularity of any kind. I subsequently con- 

 tracted fresh attacks, but these did not take such hold upon me as the first. 

 One may become to some extent acclimatised to fever, as one never can to 

 exposure to the sun. 



Though I think I might almost set up as a medical practitioner if I 

 only had fever cases to deal with, as my experience in treating myself and 

 followers has been of an extensive character, I will not lengthen mj 

 remarks by going into that subject. Should a sportsman unfortunately 

 contract fever, he will find admirable directions, in small compass, for 

 self-treatment, in the medical portion of a small work entitled the Euro- 

 Tpean in India. 



I may add one suggestion which, if I remember rightly, is not contained 

 in the book referred to, that the vapour-bath, made with a vessel of boiling 

 water placed under a chair, upon which the patient sits, the whole being 

 enveloped in a thick blanket, will be found a valuable addition to the other 

 treatment, and soon steams the chills of fever out of the sufferer's bones. 



A word for Indian servants, than whom there probably are not better 

 in the world for camp-life. How delighted one's " boys " are when " going 

 shooting " is the word ! They are cheerful and willing under great discom- 

 forts, and with few appliances make their master as comfortable in the 

 jungles as in headquarters. The manner in which a good camp -servant wiU 

 serve up dinner, from soup to pudding, is astonishing. His cooking-range 

 is but a shallow trench in the ground, in which is the fire, and over which 

 the earthen pots simmer, the whole sheltered perhaps from a howling storm 

 by a tree or a few mats. The sportsman soon finds that, if only from 

 motives of convenience, it is necessary to look to his serv^ants' welfare. 

 Englishmen in India are, as a rule, very kind to their servants, who become 

 warmly attached to good masters' interests ; but for want of forethought 



