The treatment of typhoid fever / by D.D. Stewart.

  • Stewart, David Denison, 1859-1905.
Date:
1893
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Credit: The treatment of typhoid fever / by D.D. Stewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fully made during each bath. If on returning to the bed shivering takes place, the limbs should be rubbed and a hot bottle placed at the patient's feet. A cold compress, covered with oil-silk or flannel, should be placed over the abdomen, and a little warm nourish- ment administered. ' Three-quarters of an hour after the bath the rectal temperature should again be taken. If, how- ever, it is found to be below ioi° F. (38.5° C), it is not necessary to take it again for three hours. 3|C ^ ijc •{( <{C ^ ^ ^ !]C ' Neither age, sex, menstruation, pregnancy, nor sweating (except that which occurs at the end of de- fervescence) in any way modifies the treatment. Ifi women who are weaning their ghildren, cold com- presses should be applied to the breasts and fre- quently renewed. If diarrhoea persists, it is to be combated by cold compresses, which may be kept cold by the aid of a bladder of ice. If there is constipa- tion, it is to be treated by cold enemata, and, if these fail, by enemata consisting of one part of cold water and one part of fresh ox-gall. ' When the temperature before the bath is very high, or if the fall forty-five minutes after the bath is less than 1.8° F. (1° C.)., the bath must be prolonged to eighteen or twenty minutes. It is very rarely necessary to modify the general formula. After the temperature does not exceed 102.2 F. (39° C), but yet reaches 101° F. (38.5° C), it is necessary to treat
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