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Show YOUR HEALTH BY DR. B H. BISHOP. J 4 I I Fever may be the result of a nuib-I nuib-I ber of things, but whatever these ; causes are. you should always con-: con-: sidc-r a fever as the signal thai some- thing Is vitally wrong, j Thia does not mean that one need ! become panic-siricken if a ea-- of fever has to bo cared for This would not be vl9e. and yet the seriousness of fever must not bo overlooked. The skin of a person with fever will probably feel hot to the hands, the I eyes will be very bright or perhaps very dull, and the patient, may V delirious de-lirious or excited or in a stupor. I is always a Rood plan to tak' the temperature in every case of 111-nefl. 111-nefl. This Is done with the clinical thermometer To take the temperature phak , down the mercury to '.o degrees Fah-' Fah-' renhelt or below. Wash the thermometer ther-mometer in clean cold water, shaking shak-ing off tho clinging diop Fut it in the patient's mouth, under un-der the tongue, With the lips closca lightly. Leave it for tv minutev. after whieh it i-an bo removed and read. Wash the thermometer in clean. 1 old water before putting it back in Its case. Remember that in fever the temperature Is always higher at night, perhaps by Z or 3 degree?, so that a high morning temperature is more serious than the eamu temperature tem-perature at night. The normal temperature Is 98.40 degrees Fahrenheit. From that point to 10" degrees at night is slight fe-ver; fe-ver; from 100 degrees Fahrenheit to LOS degree.-- Fahrenheit Is moderate fl . r and from 108 degrees to lOti ib groefl higli fever. Still higher temperatures tem-peratures are very uncommon. Children are much more liable to fever from slight causes than are their elders. In any case of fever the place for the sick person is in bed, it possible in a quiet, dark room. The patient should be lightly covered. cov-ered. He may be bathed In cool wafer The lood should be very simple; sim-ple; milk or a little milk toast will be all that is required Plenty of cool water Is necessary. Call the doctor doc-tor in) mediately. |