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Where the tendency to recovery is strong they will recover sooner or later in spite of the treatment; but in some cases the physician may keep a delicate, nervous patient sick as long as he gives alcohol in any form; and in the most critical stage of typhoid fever, pneumonia, and other diseases where the patient needs nourishment, and that impurities should be removed, there is no more dangerous treatment than to give alcohol in any form, which interferes with these processes by paralyzing and congesting the capillary vessels.
The professor dreaded a return of the typhoid pneumonia, and paced his study incessantly, in a voiceless fever of anxiety; physically exhausting himself the better to affect quiet and unconcern when in her room. He mentioned his fears to no one not even to Cornelia; besides, if care were taken, she might recover yet, without fatal, or even serious danger.
Then she rolled into a small parcel her own possessions two blouses, an undervest, a pair of stockings, a nightgown reminder of Bethlehem and her brief sip at the cup of success a few toilet articles. With the two bundles she descended to the office. "I came to say," she said calmly to the clerk, "that we have no money to pay what we owe. Mr. Burlingham is at the hospital very sick with typhoid.
"At a public meeting called the next evening after our return from the Toledo trip, fourteen dollars was placed in my hands as a remuneration for the assistance I rendered in examining your very sick patient. I found the disease truly alarming, far beyond the reach of human aid, much deeper than bilious fever, although it might have assumed a typhoid grade.
This was not only to avert the reproach of typhoid epidemics, two of which had previously occurred, but also to better our protection for so many helpless lives in old dry wooden buildings, and to economize the great expense of hauling water by dogs every winter, when our little surface reservoir was frozen to the bottom.
Children's Diseases. We have already studied two of the greatest and most dangerous diseases, and the way to conquer them tuberculosis, or consumption, in the chapter on the lungs; and typhoid fever, in the chapter on our drink.
There are certain diseases which are known to be infectious and can be communicated from one person to another, either by direct contact, through the medium of the atmosphere, or otherwise. Of the more prevalent infectious and contagious diseases are scarlet fever, diphtheria, erysipelas, measles, and typhoid fever.
As cities and towns, which had been obliged to give up their wells, were beginning to collect the water from these same brooks and streams in reservoirs and deliver it in pipes to all their houses, it can be easily seen that we had simply exchanged one danger for another. The Loss of Life from Typhoid Fever.
The chaplain recognized the beaver overcoat in the soft moonlight and the soldierly face under the forage-cap. "Ah, Cranston! Officer-of-the-day, I see. Just going the rounds?" "I was, yes, but I saw you coming, so waited. How's Hooker?" "Very low, poor fellow! Typhoid has him in tight grip. He's flighty to-night.
But Mott was not to be so lightly turned aside or ignored, and as he saw Will he stopped, and his manner at once betrayed the excitement under which he was laboring. "Have you heard the news, Phelps?" he demanded. "I haven't heard anything," replied Will coldly. "You haven't? Well, you ought to. It's all over college now." "What's all over college?" "Why, the report of the typhoid."
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