Article II. The Antipyretic Treatment of Pneumonia

Samuel E. James
1877 American Journal of the Medical Sciences  
Tiie treatment of febrile affections by agents capable of reducing the temperature of the body has of late attracted considerable attention, and, in order to test their efficiency, the writer has subjected quite a number of patients suffering with pneumonia to their influence; chief among these agents are the cold bath, quinia, and salicylic acid; and the results recorded in this paper will deal with observations made on patients on whom the effect of these remedies was carefully watched. The
more » ... tients were inmates of the Kentucky Penitentiary, which contains an average of about 850 convicts, and for these there are but 648 cells, containing each about 170 cubic feet of air, which will at once be recognized as quite insufficient for one man ; yet, from the necessities of the case, a number of these small cells have to accommodate two men. Each man is allowed two buckets, one for water and the other for his discharges during the night: and the atmosphere, already poisoned with carbonic acid gas and animnl matter exhnled by the two men, is still further charged with the stench arising from the buckets containing the fecal matter.
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