Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1880 — Coffee in Typhoid Fever. [ARTICLE]

Coffee in Typhoid Fever.

Dr. Guillaaee, of the French army, in a recent paper on typhoid fever, says: “Coffee has given us unhoped for satisfaction ; after having dispensed it, we find, to our great surprise, that its action is as prompt asit is decisive. No sooner have our patients taken a few tablespoonfhls of it tlian their features become relaxed and they come to their senses. The next day tne improvement is such that we are tempted to look upon coffee as a specific against? typhoid fever. Under its influence the stupor is dispelled, and the patient rouses from the state of somnolency in which he has been since the invasion of the disease. Soon all the functions take their natural 1 course, and he enters upon conv&lesence.” Dr. Guillasse gives to an adnlt Awo nr three tablespoonfuls of strong black coffee every two hoars, alternated with one or two tablespoonfuls of claret or Burgundy wine. A little lemonade or citrate of magnesia should be taken daily, and after a while, quinine. From the fact that malaise and cerebral fever acting on the nerves ig peculiarly indicated in the early stages bates local complication* arise,