Mountain fever is not infrequently fatal, and it was mountain fever that had seized upon the delicate frame of the little woman.

This fever is often tenacious and intermittent; sometimes it is congestive.

Indian medicine may cure a slight attack, and prevent too frequent returns of more violent ones; but if the case is a serious one, Indian remedies are of no avail.

Say suffered from a slight attack at first, and recovered from it.

A primitive cold-water treatment was effective for the time being; but in the year ensuing fever set in again, and no sudorific was of any use.