29. The design of reaction or fever is to restore the lost
heat and vitality, and to remove all morbific or deleterious
agents and their effects from the system, and thus preserve it
from destruction.
30. A course of treatment that will cleanse the stomach
and bowels and restore their natural activity, and at the same
time remove obstructions from the system, will also remove the
fever, by assisting to bring about what the fever is endeavoring
to accomplish. When the offending cause is removed there will
be nothing to excite fever or reaction.
There is another and directly opposite plan (that at present almost universally practiced) for subduing fever, to wit: By reducing the vital forces or the recuperative efforts of nature, by purging, by the use of poisonous (destructive) agents, such as Aconite, Belladonna, and others. This, though the fashionable and accepted practice, is nevertheless directly against Nature's Laws, is mostly unsuccessful, and is hazardous to the future health, if not to the life of the patients on whom it is tried.
There is hardly a single man or woman, who has had no
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more than the LaGrippe or Influenza, who is not suffering from some weakness. This is absolutely nothing less than the aftereffects of the fashionable treatment of the present age.
31. One of the most important indications in the treat
ment of all acute diseases attended with high arterial excite
ment or violent fever, is to overcome the contracted or spasmodic
condition of the capillary vessels by relaxing the system and
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