The Arkansas advocate., 1832-12-05
LITTLE RooK, (A. ID WEDNEsDAY, DECEMBER 5, Isaa

house, kitchen and cabin in the country 1 t is in vain to say to individuals of an lndigent and scattered population, ssSend for Physician upon the first appear ance ot dlarrhGa or cIolic.n physi- clans are not so numerous that one can be had at every cabin door upon min ute2s warning, but every master of q iau1lly may have Gin addition to salt and Water) an ounce of calouel and half an ounce Of cainphor and opium in his house, and may procure the attendance of a Physician in twenty or in forty eight hours.
 These facts being sufficiently estab- llshed. why should one single patient die ot Cholera Asphyxia?
 Let every man who Ilas tlae charge ot a family instruct each indiyidual uil- der his protection, to make known the first symptom of cholic or Of looseness of the bowels; and let the appropriate remedies be immediately applied.-In the lnceptive stage, the official reme- dies, calomel, opium and camphor, are sufficient to arrest ifs progress; when, in addition 10 the prelnsive symptoms, nausea and rice water eyacuations are present, the salt and water yomit is in- dispensable.
 The conviction of no fact is more firmly established in the mind of the writer of this communication. than this: that all the deaths by cholera have been in consequence of delay in resorting to the appropriate remedies. Delays are proverbiaily dangerous--in this matter they are fatal. It follows as an una voidable corollary from this conviction, that the seasona6le exhibition of the ap- propriate remedies, viz: of the salt and water, rest in recumbent posture, cis!- omcl, opium and camphor, blisters and lancet, will always arrest the symptoms and cure tbe disorder.
 The writer of this communication does not claim 10 be the author of the pathological system or practice which he advocates; they belong to Dr. Hop- kinsons Of Philadelphia neither does he claim 10 have introduced them into the Smthland Hospital. He found the pathology established and the practice in successful operation on his first visit. He claims only Gas the temporary re- presentative of Dr. Sanders, the regu- larly attending surgeon) to have adopt ed and proved them, and this in con- junction with Doctor Samuel N. Quer- 'termous, a resident practitionerof Smith land.
 Having made this avowal, he pro- ceedsto state in what respccthe has pre- sumed to differ from the high authori- ties under the sanction of whose pub lshed opinicns he has been acting.
 He denies that the brain or nervous systemare al all affected otherwise than by the deficient supply of blood; and he afiirms that there is no permanent or ganic Arrangement, or any derangc- ment, save only what results from the languid action of the heart and conse- quent venous congestion. Languid ac- ton of the heartand consequent conges- ton having been proved 10 be a true eause-a and sufficient for the production .ot all the according to the first principle of reasoning. as laid down by Sir Isaac Newton, (see Newton's Prin- cipia) no other cause can be admitted.
 And the speedy and perfect recovery of patients who have labored under all the symptoms, except Joss of excitahii- fly in tho stomach) afford sufficient proof of his second position.
 To preveat the accession of Cholera -chew every morsel well before it is swallowed-abstain from fatulent and indigestible food-never overload the stomach at night-sleep warm-wear flannel next the skin--stopping work when you feel tired--and wear a Bur- gnndy pitch plaister over the region of the stomach. In other respects live as usual. Very respectfully, Y
 Yours, &c.
 e. M. BROWN.