Production Fever
JHK
JHK
from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...
In:
- Typhoid Fever
- Remittent Malaria - especially Cooling Pack
- Scarlet Fever
- Erysipelas
- Smallpox
- Typhus Fever
Treatment Method:
- Cooling Pack or Graduated Tub Bath or prolonged Tepid Tub Bath
31°C or Brand Bath. then
- Wet Sheet Rub in bed or Cold Towel Rub and Sponge
- Water Drinking
- Cold Enema with simultaneous Fomentations if needed
JHK
from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...
Fever from excess heat production (compare with Retention Fever)
Fever with hot dry skin
Problems:
Mild Cases: - Cold Sponge
Treatment Method:
- Cold Water Drinking - combined with other treatments
in order from the best:
- Graduated Tub Bath - less thermic reaction because less shock than Brand Very good results - no fainting
- Cooling Pack
- Brand Bath or cold friction bath
- prolonged Tepid Tub Bath 31°C
- Wet Sheet Rub - Dripping Sheet in severe cases
- Cold Tub Bath - as practiced by Brand with heat from hot bath, pour or sprinkling after or before
- Tepid General Pail Pour - not as Stimulating as cold
- Cold Pail Pour - in infectious fevers as Tonics
- Cold Shower Pack
- Cooling Compress - less intense, useful for low fevers
- Graduated Compress
- Evaporating Sheet - especially if dry skin and very hot
- Cooling Compress or Ice Bag to head and neck
- Cooling Compress or Ice Bag to spine
- Cooling Compress or Ice Bag to abdomen
- Cooling Compress or Ice Bag over heart
- Cold Irrigations
- Tepid or Cold Enema - with simultaneous Fomentations if needed
- cold Air Bath - with rubbing to maintain surface circulation especially in refractory cases
All the above followed by very short hot General Pail Pour
GKA
from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...
Symptoms:
- Full pulse
- flushed face
- hot, dry skin
Indications:
- abstract heat by long contact with cold
Treatment:
prolonged cold applications
- Brand Bath
- Graduated Tub Bath with friction
- Tepid Tub Bath
- Cooling Pack
- Cold Towel Rub
- Ice rub
- Ice Collar
- Cold Sponge
- Pail Pour
- Cephalic Compress
- Precordial Compress
- Wet Girdle (cooling stage)
- Cooling Coil to head and/or abdomen
- cold Rectal Irrigation
- Cold Water Drinking
- fresh cold air in sick room