A raging fever succeeded to this.

The parents became alarmed, and Mr.Parker started off on horseback, for a physician, distant about seven miles.

It was noon when the doctor arrived.

He did not say much in answer to the anxious questions of the mother, but administered some medicine and promised to call on the next day.
At his second visit he found nothing favorable in the symptoms of his little patient.

Her fever was higher than on the day before.
There had been a short intermission after midnight, which lasted until morning, when it had returned again greatly exacerbated.
Nine days did the fever last without the abatement of a single symptom, but rather a steady increase of all.