rst two, while
they were unstimulating, were even more nutritious than the more
stimulating articles of flesh, fish, fowl, butter, and milk and its
products.

The treatment to which she was directed was at length pretty carefully
followed. The Friends--of which religious connection she was a
member--are generally thorough, when we gain their full confidence. Her
health was so far restored, that at one period I entertained strong
hopes of her ultimate recovery; or, at least of a recovery which would
permit of her continuance some twenty or twenty-five years longer. But
after seven or eight years of comfortable though not very firm health,
she again declined. She died at forty years of age.

CHAPTER LXVIII.

COLD WATER IN FEVER.

My daughter, then about three years of age, was feverish; and as the
lung fever was somewhat prevalent, the family became considerably
alarmed.

On examination, I found a strong tendency to the head. The eye was
heavy, the head hot and painful, and the tongue thickly coated. The
digestive system was disordered, and the skin was collapsed, inactive,
and cold. The extremities, especially the feet, were particularly cold
and pale.

The days of hydropathy had now arrived; but I was not a full convert, as
I have already told you, to the exclusive use of cold water in disease.
However, a case was before me which obviously demanded it. So I
proceeded to make frequent applications of Nature's drug to the top of
her head, and to the temples, while I ordered warm and stimulating
applications to the feet and ankles.

This treatment had the effect to render her condition somewhat more
comfortable during the day, but at evening the fever returned, and
during the night was violent. The tendency to the head was so great as
to cause delirium. The anxiety of the family became very great. In the
morning, however, she was rather better, so that hope again revived.

During the day the fever increased again, and towards evening and during
the whole night was accompanied by restlessness and delirium. But we
only persevered with the more earnestness in the use of what we believed
to be the most rational treatment. She had, however, a very sick night.
The next morning she was again better, though, as might have been
expected, somewhat more feeble than she was twenty-four hours before.

Most parents, I know, and not a few wise medical men among us, would
have resorted to powders and pills; but we only