Prolonged Pyrexia in Children Treated by the Cold Bath; a Few General Remarks upon This System

ment which is indisputably the best, even in the cases where it can be shown to be not merely the best method, but actually the only one which offers the slightest chance of a favorable issue. But among the real leaders of medical thought and experience it has been settled beyond the possibility of question that there is only one -way of dealing with excessive bodily heat which is itself dangerous to life, viz., the abstraction of caloric from the surface of the body by cold baths or other