The remedies that proved successful in arresting the disease during the early or forming stage, before the chill or fever had set in, while the symptoms were pain, fullness, and throbbing of the head, with more or less dizziness, rheumatic pains in the back, and redness of the eyes, were _Aconite_ and _Bell._, at low attenuations, once in two to four hours, according to the violence of the symptoms. For the fullness of the head, pressing outwards, as though it would split, with pains of a rheumatic character, _Macrotin_ 1st, given in one grain doses, every hour or two hours, proved specific.
These three remedies, _Aconite, Bell._ and _Macrotin_, would, in nearly all cases, arrest the disease in the forming stage, so that no chill or fever would occur, or, if fever did come on after this treatment, it was mild.
When the fever sets in, and the pain in the head and back increases, the eyes, forehead and face are extremely red, or purple and hot, the pulse frequent and full, the tongue coated white, _Aconite_, _Belladonna_ and _Macrotin_ are still to be relied upon, but they should be given every half hour, in rotation, at low attenuations. If the tongue is red, in the early stage, use _Bryonia_ in place of the _Belladonna_. In a later stage, when sickness or distress at the stomach had become prominent, with the quick pulse, and hot skin, _Ipecac_ and _Aconite_, both at the 1st attenuation, a dose given every half hour alternately, generally arrested the symptoms, and brought on perspiration of a healthful character, followed by subsidence of the fever and convalescence. Sponge baths, with half an ounce of _Tr. Ipecac_ in two quarts of tepid water, applied to the whole surface freely, under the bed clothes, so as not to expose him to the air, contributed much towards bringing on perspiration and subduing the fever, as well as allaying the nausea.
When called to patients in the stage of _Black Vomit_, whether that came on as an early symptom, or at a later stage, _Nit. acid_, _Veratrum virid._ and _Baptisia_, all at the first dilution, were administered every hour, in rotation, with great success, the symptoms yielding in a few hours. For the great oppression, as of a load, in the stomach, without vomiting, _Nux_ was found sufficient. In the later stage, when there seemed to be no secretion of urine, _Canabis_ and _Apis mel._, gave relief.