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rs during the intermission. It is well also to continue these remedies night and morning, alternately, for a week or so, after the cessation of the chills and fever, or until all bilious appearances cease. * * * * * A REMITTING FEVER is one that goes nearly off, but not so entirely as an intermittent, returning again by a paroxysm of chill more or less distinct, sometimes hardly perceptible, and an increase of the fever following, from day to day, until arrested. * * * * * CONTINUED FEVERS are generally of a Bilious character, except in winter, when they are more or less connected with irritation of the lungs, or with Rheumatic affections, when they are termed Catarrhal or Rheumatic Fevers. If the bilious symptoms prevail, give _Aconite_ and _Baptisia_ during the chills and high febrile stage, at intervals of an hour, and during the declining stage of the fever, give _Podophyllin_ and _Mercurius_ until a perfect intermission is produced, when the same treatment should be adopted as in intermittents. But should it take the form of Catarrhal Fever, the head being "stuffed up," pain in the head, the lungs oppressed, cough and sneezing, the eyes and nose suffused with increased secretion of tears and mucus, pain in the back or loins, almost constant chilly sensations, use in rotation _Baptisia_, _Copaiva_ and _Phosphorus_, giving a dose every hour until the fever begins to abate and perspiration comes on, then leave off the _Baptisia_, and give in its stead _Macrotin_, lengthening the interval between the remedies to two hours or longer. For the _chronic cough_ that sometimes follows catarrhal fever, _Copaiva_, _Macrotin_ and _Phosphorus_ should be used morning, noon and night, in the order here named. Should the fever be a Rheumatic Fever, (_Rheumatism_,) the patient complaining of soreness of the muscles, of the chest, back and limbs, with or without lameness of the joints, _Aconite_, _Macrotin_ and _Nux Vom._ are the remedies for a male patient, and the two former, with _Pulsatilla_, for a female, (or for a _male_, of light hair, delicate skin, feminine voice and mild temper,) to be used in rotation one hour apart. These remedies are to be taken in a severe acute case, every half hour until the symptoms begin to abate; then every hour or two hours as the case progresses. _Baths_ properly administered, are of great importance in all for
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