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I am much pleased with your report on Prac. Med., and notice your recipe for typhoid fever. For several years, I have used a prescription for typhoid fever somewhat as follows, and have been much pleased with it. Almost all of my typhoid fever patients recover, though I have no hospital practice.
[unk]. Sugar, gum arabic, spts. turpentine, āā.............[unk]i.
Syr. ipecac...............[unk]ii.
Iodide sodium.............gr. x.
Cinnamon water, q. s. ft.... [unk]ii.
ft. sol....................
S. Teaspoonful every 2 to 4 hours.
Sponging with warm or cold water is grateful. Small doses t. d. of quinine in some cases; sub. nit. bismuth and salicine to check diarrhœa, about cover the drugs used.
Good soups, fresh fruit juices, as from baked apples, and their well-cooked pulp, and orange and lemon juices, and sometimes liquid lactopeptine t. d. after nourishment, a teaspoonful. Fruit juices are too much neglected in fevers.
Change body linen every 24