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Medicines. It may be necessary to use morphine to control the pain.

Remedies such as antipyrine or aspirin are often used. A physician must be

called. When the disease is caused by arsenic and lead and alcohol, of

course you must remove the cause before you can hope for any improvement.



Caution. Any one can readily understand from reading this description

that the thing to do is to be careful not to needlessly expose yourself to

taking cold. One subject to rheumatism or neuritis, even in small degree,

should take care not only not to take cold but not to overdo in laboring;

cold, wet and over-exertion cause the majority of the acute attacks. But

some are caused by diseases, such as diphtheria, typhoid fever, etc., and

a great many cases of neuritis following these and other infectious

diseases can be avoided if proper care is taken during and after these

diseases. Such care can easily be taken. Keep your rooms warm and

comfortable, and the patient in bed or in a comfortable room until all

danger is past. How often I have heard a doctor blamed for such results

when in most cases it is the patient's or nurse's fault. Certain results

will follow certain diseases and only proper care can keep such results

from following. Dropsy frequently follows even a light case of scarlet

fever. Why? Simply because, on account of being a light case, the child is

left to roam at will about the rooms and catches cold, takes la grippe. If

people would only take care of themselves this disease would not leave so

many lifelong victims. I have seen men and women who have just recovered

from this disease stand on the street corners on a cold, damp day, and

talk an hour, and the next day they wondered how they could possibly have

taken cold. We cannot disobey the laws of nature safely. Persons who are

subject to neuritis or rheumatism should be especially careful on cold,

damp, wet days and of over-exertion.







GENERAL AND FUNCTIONAL BRAIN DISEASES. NERVOUS

PROSTRATION. NERVOUS EXHAUSTION.

NEURASTHENIA.