Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1881 — Relapses in Typhoid Fever. [ARTICLE]

Relapses in Typhoid Fever.

Some people depend wholly on domestic treatment in typhoid fever. They seem to be successful; for, in the large majority of cases—eight out of ten-—the system throws it off wholly apart from medicine, especially if there is a strong circulation of pure air m the room, and the body is frequently sponged with cold water, or better, with a weak solution of common soda. The fact, however, that one cannot know beforehand the character of the case, makes it always safest in the hand of a faithful physician who can watch it and care for it according to the symptoms. This seems the more important in view of the discovery recently made by the late Dr. Irvine’ of England, respecting relapses of typhoid fever, of which the London Lancet says, “To most of us it comes like a revelation.” He has shown that these most troublesome contingencies are much more frequent than is generally supposed by the profession; that, in fact, there are often several, the first predisposing to a second, that a real relapse mav set in without any interval of covanlescence; and that many eases of the disease, when they first come under the notice of the physician, are relapses, following upon a mild primary attack. The fever normally lasts twenty-eight days. A first relapse, where there are no complications, lasts twenty or twentyone days; subsequent relapses are each shorter than that immediately preceding. The interval of convalescence between the first attack and the first relapse, averages about five days, during which the temparature is natural, or nearly so. The onset of the relapse is marked by a sudden rise of temperature, which reaches its height by the fifth day, maintaining a high level until the eight or ninth, when it falls decidedly, but again rises and gradually declines to the end on the twentieth or twenty-first d»y.

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