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Treatment (Remove the cause if possible)

Remove the cause, if possible, by curing the disease of which it is a symptom; and support the strength of the patient.

Inflammation of the Brain.

Symptoms. Intense pain in the head, the eyes incapable of bearing the light, delirium, face flushed, oppression at the breast, the pulse hard and very rapid, tongue at first of a fiery red, then yellow, brown or black.

Causes. Exposure to excessive heat of the sun, blows on the head, intense application to study, intemperance. Distinguish it from inflammatory fever by the pulse, which in the one is full, strong and regular, in the other hard, quick and corded, and by the raving delirium. From typhus by the two latter marks.