THE RATIONAL TREATMENT OF TYPHOID FEVER.A paper read before the Ohio State Medical Society, at Cincinnati, May 5, 1892

Mr. President and Fellow-members of the Ohio State Medical Society: The subject of fever—in its general aspect—has been deemed worthy of so much labor and study on the part of the physiologist, the pathologist and the clinician, and is of such practical import to all who practice our art in any of its branches, that no apology is necessary, I trust, for bringing one of its numerous phases before this society for consideration. Looking at its most constant and evident symptom—the pyrexia—the physiologist points out, and the pathologist, and clinician confirm the probable •existence of heat-producing, heat controlling and heat dissipating areas, situated in the central nervous system, and influencing by their abnormal action the production of this particular symptom. That the pyrexia, however, does not constitute the disease is quite evident, since, it may be absent, controlled or even eliminated, and yet the patient be far from well. While