The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1848.

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bare jut esentred to tailors who had bee. at Hassle's,
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Valiant, of Sunderland, both occurred in dreasea, rib
persisted is the prude" of intoxication, metethiblithathe the
earnest wormier that were given them spited the amain
of intemperance.
On account of the intimate connexion between the mew
nal skin and the internal lining membrane of the bash,
warm clothing is of great importance. The wearing of
flannel next the skin is therefore advisable. Resent expo-
rieneson the Contuses% seems to show that It was misfit to
wear in the day time • fluted bandage raund the body, and
this may beasowe a in our own country during the
damp and cold weather the approaching season.
Particular attention should be paid to keeping the feet
wine and dry ; changing toe clothes immediately after ex-
posure to wet ; and maintaining the timing and bedrooms
well-aired, dry, and warm.
It may be necemary to add a caution spinet the use of
cold purgative medicines, such as salts, particularly Glauber
salts, Epee= salts, and Seidlits powders, which taken, la
any quantity, in such a seuoo, :re dangerous. Ostia pee-
gatives of all kinds should be avoided, inch es banns' coke-
eenth, and aloes, except under special medical direction.
If, notwithstanding these precautionary measures, a pines
is se sed suddenly with cad, giddiness, causes, vomiting.. ,
and cramps, under circumstance* in which intent sward
assitance cannot be procured, the concurrent testimony of
the most experienced medical authority shows that the pre-
per course is to get as soon u possible into • warm bed
apply warmth by means of heated flannel, or bottles lUsd
with hot water, or bags of heated camomil: flowers, rand,
bran, or salt, to the feet and along the spine ; to have the
extremities diligently rubbed ; to apply a large pultiee of
mustard sad vinegar over the region of the stomach, keeping
it on 15 or 20 minutes ; and to take every half hour a tea
spoonful of sal volatile in a little hot water, or a Aswort
flaunted of brandy in a little hot water, or • wine glass of
hot wine whey, wade by pouring a wine glass of sherry bete
a tumbler of hot milk—in a word, to do everything peal
cable to procure a warm, general perspiration until the ant-
val of the medical attendant, whose immediate care, mar
such circumstances, is indispensable.
It has not been deemed necessary or proper to give In-
structions for the treatment of the advanced stage, from the
confident expectation that the proposed arrangements will
supply medical attendance to all cases that may reach that
condition, by which means V.it specific symptoms of each in-
dividual case will receive their appropriate treatment.
Though the season of danger may demand some extraor-
dinary exertion and sacrifice on the part of all dust', yet
this period will probably not be protracted, since, on the
former visitation of cholera, it seldom remained in any place
which it attacked longer than • few months, and rarely
more than a few weeks; while it may be reasonably expected
that the improvements effected with • view to check its pro-
gress will be equally efficacious in shortening its duration ;
and that these improvements will not be temporary, like the
occasion that called for them, but will be attended with lut-
ing benefit.
In conclusion, the General Board of Health would again
urge the consideration that whatever I. preventive of
cholera is equally preventive of typhus and of every other
epidemic and oonstantly-recurring disease ' • and would ear-
nestly call the attention of all claws to the striking and con-
soling fact that, formidable as this malady is la its intense
form and developed stage, there is no dims, against
which it is in our i ower to take such effectual precau-
tion, both as collective communities and private indi-
viduals, by vigilant attention to it in its first or premoni-
tory stage, and by the removal of thou agencies which are
known to pram*, the spread of all epidemic diseases.
Though, therefore, the issues of events are not in our hands,
there se ground for hope and even confidence in the sustained
and resolute employment of the means of protection which
experience and scenes have now placed within our reach.—
By order of the General Board of Health.
HINNY AUSTIN, Secretary.