75.2 deg., while cooler water is poured over him. Young and
strong patients have endured even cooler baths as powerful stimulants.

The nearer a patient approaches to a nervous, weak condition, the more
caution is required to allow him hike warm baths only, or, still better,
ablutions at 77 deg., which may be made severer by not drying the patient.

It is very beneficial to weak patients to frequently wash their hands,
face and neck, without drying them.

A very careful treatment of the hair is also a great necessity,
especially for women. Clean and well combed hair is very beneficial to a
patient. Slight ablutions of the head and combing the hair while wet,
are very cooling and refreshing.

The stronger the nature of a patient, the safer it becomes to rely upon
a single mode of procedure. Thus, cold packs may be sufficient in case
of high fever if applied about every half hour or hour; or, if the
temperature is not quite so high, at intervals, from one hour and a half
to two hours With weaker persons more variety of procedure is
imperative, but none of them must be too stringently applied. In these
cases mild ablutions should be used several times during the day, and
they may be alternated with packs of the whole lower part of the body or
packs on the calves of the legs.

Cool or cold enemas are rapidly absorbed and thus have a quieting
influence on the large blood reservoir in the abdomen. Little mouthfuls
of water are also taken from time to time, but too much water always
weakens the patient.

(C) DIET IN CASES OF FEVER.

As diet in cases of fever I recommend the prescriptions of Professor
Moritz, which coincide with my own experiences, so far as a fever diet
is concerned; and in addition the physiologico-chemical cell-food which
I have used for many years with the greatest success (Dech-Manna Diet).
The importance of the latter is due to the fact that it not only
_prevents_ the destruction of the cells, but has a general strengthening
effect upon the system.

Whatever the differences in manifestation the febrile diseases may show,
the _febrile reduction of the digestive capacity of the stomach and the
bowels is so characteristic_, that it should be specially noted in this
connection.

True, fever shows considerable _disturbance of metabolism_, since the
_decomposition of the albumen is increased in an abnormal way_. This
fact, however, does not demand any particular attention, in regard to
diet. As fa