External application of Ice in Typhus. By Dr. Sandras.—The
practice consists in the following proceeding :—The abdomen alone is
covered with ice, when tympanitis, heat of skin, pain in the abdomen
on pressure, and attacks of colic, constitute the chief symptoms. Ice
is mixed with linseed-meal, which absorbs the water, and is renewed at
frequent intervals in the beginning, when the thawing goes on too
quickly from the heat of skin; the application is repeated every quarter
of an hour, or even oftener, but Jess frequently as the heat and
fever diminish. First the tympanitis vanishes; then the pain and
fever. In haemorrhages, during typhus, there is no better remedy than
ice. Should congestion of the head and stupor supervene, then ice
must be applied in a caoutchouc bag to the scalp.—Med. Times and
Gaz. from Gaz. des Hop., 13, 1853.