Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1832-07-25

found more convenient, 3 inches wide and yards
long. No person should ever allow himself TO
sit down and get cool, with wet feet. Inieed the
most particular attention should be paid to keep
the feet dry and warm. Repletion and indiges-
ton should be guarded against; all raw vegeta-
bles and unwholesome food avoided Tempe.
rance should be rigidly observed in every thing
In short, 10 means should be neglected which
may tend to preserve individual health. The
neglect Of any or all Of these cautions would not
of themselves produce the Specific disease, called
spasmodc cholera; but such neglect would most
assuredly dispose the individual living in an IN
fected atmosphere to be attacked by this disease,
when most probably he might otherwise have
escaped.
\ 9th. People ought to be appraised that the
principal symptoms are, either purging, spasms,
or cramps, giddness with aa,,sea, and more or
less vomiting Added IL the above are The iol-
flowing characters: great alteration in the rene
raj aspect of the patient. bis appearance is shrunk
and ghaslv, often IF blue tint, with great cold
ness Of the skin, when felt by another person.
These are the principal symptoms; but persons
cannot be too much on their guard lest they he
deceived, and imagine hat any one SO affected
iabors under the spasmodic cholera. These ap-
|pearances most of them common to disease
well known in this country, the common cholera
so that in any given of person being so
affected il is probable that he labors under that
disease, and not the spasmodic cholera; unless,
indeed, it should appear that the latter malady is
in the neighborhood, there is no reason to sup
pose the sick person has been exposed to infection.
j Whenever any, all of the above signs Of the
disease appear, and under such circumstances,
the purging should be checked by 40 drops of
'audanum in wine glass of strong peppermint
water, or in weak spirits and water; and his may
1 he repeated in an hour; If the purging be not
! checked, the patient should be confined to bed.
and the heat up by long continued friction by
b flannels, by heated bricks to the feet, and hot
plates placed to the stomach
j Should the patient be suddenly seized with The
labove symptoms, let him then be Immediately
PLACED between warm blankets, and should no
medical person he at hand, let two table spoons
full of common kitchen salt dissolved 10 o. of
Il warm water, be given Immediately, and DIT once
J n he be an adult. Let dry and steady heat lie
lappied along the course of the spine, and to the
nit Of the stomach, (f no ether means be at hanl)
+ by succession If heated plates or platters. Let
. the upper and lower extreme'es be surrounded
= with bags Of heated bran, Germ, ashes and sand,
and let him be asslduousiy rubbed with warm
s band aud little OIL or grease t. protect The skin.
Energetic complete vomiting will probably be
produced by the salt, and perhaps bilious purging
: with strainipg.-On no occasion let the patient
. take purge of salts, such as EPSON Salts, for
they have been found to be most injurious.
: Under these circumstance, time should be
t lost in procuring Medical aid; yet much will be
gained by adopting the above measures previous
3 ly, and by constantly rubbing the patient, who
/, should keep most strictly horizontal position,
for death has instantly followed when person
laboring under the disease has attempted to stand,
t or even to sit, in the half erect position.
i Such are the measures which the Board rec
ommend to be adopted before Medical person
f visit the patient.
TREATMENT.
\ The following remarks upon the Spasmodic
: Cholera, are derived from the best sources, and
q the latest information. They are published by
D the Board for the especial guidance of medical
practitioners in the country
A OF the two great classes of functions perform.
e led by the organs of which man is composed, one
:, only is attacked in this disease. The operations
s. of the senses and of the intelligence are left un.
+ touched, are affected in a secondary manner.
e Those functions, on the contrary, by which
S existence as living being is preserved, those
i, complicated powers by means of which we are
e for ever approprlatng and converting into a part
Of ourselves portions of the matter around u.s. are
Il all and at once deranged by the attack of this
= terrible malady. Nutrition is annihiIated; res
II piration becomes difficult, irregular, and nefii-
y cleRt; the involuntary muscles no longer perform
their task, the voluntary are drawn into contrac-
r tons by other powers than the will; the blood
Il ceases to circulate; its physical properties are
n altered; its serious portions are suddenly thrown
out upon the intestal mucous surface of the body
the secretions are all arrested, and animal heat
z is no longer produced. Under such rapidly des
y tructive, and almost universal arrangement Of
The functions, the most energetic efforts should be
directed to reproduce what the disease has rem
ID dered nature unable to keep up, viz:
a. lst Fluidity, heat, and motion in the blood
n I'd. Regulated action in the voluntary ant
a. involuntary muscles.
Sd and lastly, but above every other consdera.
lie tou, renewed energy in the nervous centre, the
tn source of all vitality and function
e. No remedy at all approaching to the nature Of
specific has been as yet discovered for this dis
p ease. In fact no one mode Of cure can be llse-
ID fully employed under all the circumstances Of
r. any disease. The grades of intensity, and tho
n grouping of the SYMPTOMS under which Spasmodic
d Cholera makes its attacks, vary with he condi'
lions Of the subject; its Treatment therefore, must
i. vary with these grades and conditions.
b. The leading preliminary SYMPTOMS generally
ell are, either diarrhoea, spasms vertigo with nau
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