Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1891 — Kursing Cases of Typhoid. [ARTICLE]

Kursing Cases of Typhoid.

First of all, after the wise physician, we should say procure a well trained nurse. Some of our physicians will not take a case of this fever without one. But if one cannot be employed, then put in practice the best rules of good nursing by keeping the patient quiet, entirely free from company, excitement, noise and disturbing influences of all Kinds, and exempt also from all exertion, even to lifting the head or turning the body alone. Give no food except a glass of milk every two or three hours, and lower the temperature as it rises by sponge baths under the blanket, consisting generally of alcohol and water. There must be no wearying nor flagging in the enforcement of these rules until the patient has been normal all day for a week, and even then groat caution must be used lest too groat bodily exertion biing on fatal results. When it is better and more generally Understood that typhoid fever is principally and primarily a condition oi ulceration of the thin tissues of the intestines, and that any but the softest foods or the gentlest movements of the body may produce perforation, which is sure death, or how easily other dangerous results, such as hemorrhages or peri ton itiet, may be induced, physicians will And their patients and those in charge of them more strictly obedient to their injunctions; and 1b our homes, as in the hospitals, it wi 11 be the rare exception where the sufferer does not recover.—Lxcbanga.