Show PS PSt IC UX mOMA ON I 1 A is una an inflammation of tle lungs longs attended with fever some times the fever is of the diathesis termed inflammatory and sometimes or of the low diathesis to which the term typhoid ij is applied in either cither case the chief trouble and nd danger wholly consists aside from treatment in in cn gor gement of the lungs longs they arc so congested with accumulated blood that brei breathing breithing thing is laborious the be cough sev severe ere and distressing rod and the expectoration tion dilli difficult calt the fever may bo be mild or violent dut but in all casca the ill c essential point poin in ia the tha treatment is to relieve the overloaded vessels of the lungs this is to be done not by taking tho the blood out oat nor blister the akin nor poisoning the stomach but simply by the circulation from the lungs to other parts of lb the e body and freeing the whole mas 0 of f blood of it its cufeto and viscid matters and all this can be accomplished by balancing the temperature steadily at or near the normal condition con dlton diton standard in a day or two to sometimes in a few hours loura and in the ho worst cases within a i week the patient will be fairly convalescent the structure of the luo lungs S bein being spongy and elastic so as to allow all f I 1 tha blood in the body to pass through them once occo in three minutes enables them to bear an immense degree or of engorgement without bisor disorganization 9 the pain in tho the lungs may b be very cr I 1 evere the cough extremely eitrem cly v violent eg t tho the breathing exceedingly distressing the faver intense and the patient utterly prostrated with no danger of dying in providing ro v i in nothing is done amiss art for the h e clerestory cler excretory etory organs are arc gradually gradual elating g out the iao impurities from the whole mass of blood and the myriads of little glands in the lungs themselves are unloading the congested gesseli by the process of expectoration so that in duo due time the trouble is removed and the patient not th the disease is cured in order to maintain the balance of circulation so that 11 nature 11 ca can n perform her remedial work successfully the surface must be frequently bathed with water of i a temperature suited to the circumstances of each case the anle being the warmer the surface or any part of it the cooler the water and vice TOMB science of health |