biological healing and to the conditions of life in
health and disease, offers advantages which no other treatment affords
and benefits the patient to an extent which cannot be too highly
estimated.

In the treatment of fever we must, in the first place, follow the
impulses of instinct--harmonized, however, with the fundamental laws and
methods of biological treatment--if success is to be obtained.
Instinctively, in the case of a hot forehead, we turn to the application
of cold compresses; for cold feet, the use of such appliances as will
bring about heat. Tormenting thirst is assuaged by a mouthful of cooling
water. But the instinct of impulse alone might also lead one burning
with high fever to seek relief by immersion in cooling water; thus, in
order to discover the rational course we must be guided by the
fundamental laws of the biological system of healing.

(B) TREATMENT.

To these biological explanations of what fever is, it will be
interesting to add some general description and explanation of its
treatment, such as may serve in an emergency as an indication of the
proper course to be pursued and by the most simple means, pending the
attendance of an hygienic physician.

I must again call special attention to the importance of not clinging
too literally to the letter of the law,--of every rule laid down,--but
rather to study by the light of such laws and with alert intelligence
the special features of the case at issue.

Of all hygienic treatments of fever, which have come under my notice in
the course of many years, there is none more clearly, simply and
intelligibly described than that which Dr. C. Sturm, has published in
his book, "Die natur liche Heilmethode" (The Natural Method of
Healing). I will, therefore, employ it in my explanations, (as
translated from the German) adding to it my advanced methods, especially
the hydropathic and dietetic treatments which are more in accordance
with the demands of modern biological therapy.

In the first place, as we know, fever is indicated by an abnormally hot
skin. This heat is noticeable even by touching the patient with the palm
of the hand.

A precise measurement of this heat, of course, requires a thermometer.
The best kind is a so-called maximum thermometer.

The temperature is taken by putting the lower end of the glass into the
axilla, or arm-pit, of the arm, or in the mouth or the rectum of the
patient, and leaving it there for from 8 to 10 minute