and
followed strictly, thus avoiding many sad experiences.

Nearly all forms of children's disease are combined with fever, and even
without any of the characteristic symptoms of the various forms of
disease, children are often subject to more or less intense attacks of
fever. Therefore, in the following pages I am giving an extensive
description of fever from a biological standpoint, together with its
dietetic treatment--not _cure_ for, as will be seen, _fever in itself is
not a disease, but the attempt of nature to get rid of a disease_.

This elaborate description of fever in all its phases will also serve as
a valuable illustration of the manner in which all subjects dealt with
are treated in my greater work: "Regeneration, or Dare to be Healthy."

FEVER AND ITS TREATMENT, BASED ON BIOLOGY

(A) GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Fever is one of the protective institutions of the body, which very
often acts most advantageously in the interests of the preservation of
the organism. It is a symptom, or rather a group of symptoms, consisting
of an increase of temperature, acceleration of metabolism, excitement of
the nerves, numbness and frequently delirium.

Undoubtedly a fever of long duration and high temperature may injure the
organism to the extent that death ensues.

There have been, nevertheless, at all times, those who hold the opinion
that fever, as such, does not under any circumstances, injure the
organism of itself alone.

Fever has at all times been regarded, and to a much higher degree today
than formerly, as a healthy reaction against diseased matter, and
indeed, as an expression of the healing tendency of nature, Hippocrates
considered it an excellent remedy. Thomas Campanello recognized its
qualities of removing diseased matter.

This doctrine is corroborated by the findings in regard to infections.

Through fever the organism is freed from micro-organisms which may have
forced their way in. Fever operates like fire, destroying the contagious
matter. After this is done the remnants are excreted through intense and
extremely offensive perspiration.

Experiments have taught us that the growth and the resisting power of
many microbes decrease if the temperature of the body rises, but 1.8 to
3.6 degrees above normal. It is also a remarkable fact that in every
disease where bacteria are found, there is a special type of fever,
which takes its course in such strict accordance with its law, that the
phy