This disease is liable to be set up in the course of metallic poisoning.

Treatment

Rest in bed and a pint of hot water every three hours until comfortable. Then fruit morning; salad at noon; teakettle tea in the evening, for about a week. Then gradually increase, but avoid overeating. Hot baths to relieve excessive pain. Certainly no drugs for these subjects; for they have already been poisoned to death. I think the majority of physicians will give hypodermics of morphine to remove pain, but it is not necessary. If a hot bath can be had, the patient should be kept in water as hot as he can bear for half an hour, or an hour, if necessary to bring relief; and then he should return to the hot bath when the pain becomes troublesome. Of course, the excessive heat in bathing is enervating, but no more so than drug administration and the pain for which the bath is given. Strychnine is recommended, but, to my mind, it is the very worst kind of malpractice to overstimulate a patient in this condition with drugs that act so powerfully on the nervous system as strychnine. Indeed, drugs are not necessary at all.