rwards, except as his strength
will permit him to go out of doors for a time each sunny day until
recovery is fully established.

=Treatment.=--The medicinal treatment consists at first in combating
the toxin of the disease and assuaging pain, and later in promoting
strength. Hot lemonade and whisky may be given during the chilly
period and a single six- to ten-grain dose of quinine. Pain is
combated by phenacetin,[8] three grains repeated every three hours
till relieved. At night a most useful medicine to afford comfort when
pain and sleeplessness are troublesome, is Dover's powder, ten grains
(or codeine, one grain), with thirty grains of sodium bromide
dissolved in water. After the first day it is usually advisable to
give a two-grain quinine pill together with a tablet containing
one-thirtieth of a grain of strychnine three times a day after meals
for a week or two as a tonic (adult). Only mild cathartics are
suitable to keep the bowels regular as a Seidlitz powder in the
morning before breakfast. The diet should be liquid while the fever
lasts--as milk, cocoa, soups, eggnog, one of these each two hours. A
tablespoonful of whisky, rum, or brandy may be added to the milk three
times daily if there is much weakness.

The germ causing _grippe_ lives only two days, but successive crops of
spores are raised in a proper medium. Neglected mucus in nose or
throat affords an inviting field for the germ. Therefore it is
essential to keep the nostrils free and open by means of spraying with
the Seiler's tablet solution (p. 49), and then always breathing
through the nostrils.

FOOTNOTES:

[4] Caution. Dangerous. Use only on physician's order.

[5] Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and the Adirondacks contain the
most favorable climatic resorts in this country.

[6] Caution. Dangerous. Use only on physician's order.

[7] This dose is only suitable for strong, healthy adults of average
weight and those who are not affected peculiarly by opium. Delicate
women and others not coming under the above head should take but half
the dose and repeat in an hour if necessary.

[8] Caution. A powerful medicine.

CHAPTER IV

=Headaches=

_Treatment of Sick Headache--Effects of
Indigestion--Neuralgia--Headaches Occasioned by Disease--Other
Causes--Poisoning--Heat Stroke._

Headache varies according to its nature and causes. The first variety
to be considered is "sick headache" or migraine.

=SICK HEADACHE.=--This is