When Safely There Take Lashings Of Hot Tea Or, What Is
Better, A Hot Drink Made From Fresh Lime-Juice, Strong And Without
Sugar - Fresh Limes Are Almost Always To Be Had - If Not, Bottled
Lime-Juice Does Well.
Then, in the hot stage, don't go fanning
about, nor in the perspiring stage, for if you get a chill then you
may turn a mild dose of fever into a fatal one.
If, however, you
keep conscientiously rolled in your blanket until the perspiring
stage is well over, and stay in bed till the next morning, the
chances are you will be all right, though a little shaky about the
legs. You should continue the quinine, taking it in five-grain
doses, up to fifteen to twenty grains a day for a week after any
attack of fever, but you must omit the opium pill. The great thing
in West Africa is to keep up your health to a good level, that will
enable you to resist fever, and it is exceedingly difficult for most
people to do this, because of the difficulty of getting exercise and
good food. But do what you may it is almost certain you will get
fever during a residence of more than six months on the Coast, and
the chances are two to one on the Gold Coast that you will die of
it. But, without precautions, you will probably have it within a
fortnight of first landing, and your chances of surviving are almost
nil.
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