lts
taken. In nearly all fevers we have found that a weak, alkaline tea,
made from the white ashes of hickory or maple wood, is useful, taken
weak, three or four times daily, or if there be considerable thirst,
more frequently. Some patients desire lemon juice, which enters the
system as an alkali and answers all purposes.

Diaphoretic medicines are also indicated, and the use of Dr. Pierce's
Extract of Smart-weed will prove very serviceable. Drinking freely of
pleurisy-root tea, or of a strong decoction of boneset is frequently
useful. After free sweating has been established, then it is proper to
follow by the use of diuretic teas, such as that of spearmint and
pumpkin seed combined, or sweet spirits of nitre, in doses of twenty to
thirty drops, added to a teaspoonful of the Extract of Smart-weed,
diluted with sweetened water.

To lessen the frequency of the pulse, fluid extract or tincture of
aconite or veratrum may be given in water, every hour. During the
intermission of symptoms, tonic medicines and a sustaining course of
treatment should be employed. If the tongue is loaded and the
evacuations from the bowels are fetid, a solution of sulphite of soda is
proper; or, take equal parts of brewer's yeast and water, mix, and when
the yeast settles, give a tablespoonful of the water every hour, as an
antiseptic. Administering a warm, alkaline hand-bath to a fever patient
every day, is an excellent febrifuge remedy, being careful not to chill
or induce fatigue. If there is pain in the head, apply mustard to the
feet; if it is in the side, apply hot fomentations.

The symptoms which indicate danger are a tumid and hard abdomen,
difficult breathing, offensive and profuse diarrhea, bloody urine,
delirium, or insensibility. Favorable symptoms are a natural and soft
state of the skin, eruptions on the surface, a natural expression of the
countenance, moist tongue, free action of the kidneys, and regular
sleep. If the domestic treatment which we have advised does not break
the force of the disease and mitigate the urgency of the symptoms, it
will be safer to employ a good physician, who will prescribe such a
coarse of treatment as the case specially requires. It is our aim to
indicate what may be done before the physician is called, for frequently
his services cannot be obtained when they are most needed. Besides, if
these attacks are early and properly treated with domestic remedies, it
will often obviate the necessity of