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340 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
malaria of intermittent, combined with other malaria
and personal causes of disease. It is a fever of remis
sions and exacerbations ; but there is no entire freedom
from its symptoms, as in fever and ague.
It commences with or without a chill ; followed by
languor, weariness, uneasiness of stomach, pains in head,
back, and limbs; then a hot, dry skin; full, bounding
pulse, abrupt and frequent; restlessness, vomiting,
thirst; tongue turns from white to yellow or brown;
bowels constipated ; stools green and acrid ; severe
stage lasts twelve to eighteen hours. This period
usually comes on a little before noon. As the disease
goes on, the vomiting becomes more frequent ; there
is heat and tenderness at the epigastrium, intolerable
headache, and intolerance of light. The tongue be
comes black, dries, and cracks; respiration difficult;
pulse sinks ; prostration ; twitchings of the muscles ;
death from seven to thirteen days. Often it sinks into
a low stage, and lasts or twenty thirty days.
In Malignant Remittent, a severe form, or occurring
in more poisoned and exhausted constitutions, the skin is
cold and clammy ; countenance pale, livid, and shrunk ;
pulse frequent and fluttering ; stupor, or low delirium ;
syncope. Sometimes fatal in two or three days.
—As Effects. usually treated by bleeding and enor
mous doses of calomel and quinine, this disease is fol
lowed by jaundice, dyspepsia, enlargements of liver,
spleen, etc., dropsy, consumption.
Treatment.—Cold water is the only reliable remedy.
Even Professor Dickson, an allopath, says, "its reme
dial value can not be exaggerated." Called to a severe
case, I should try to give the patient a cool half-bath of