The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-06-27

The following extracts are from COM
munication in the Commercial Advertiser
from one Of the most eminent physicians in
New York:
Let every citizen see that his house or
room be cleaned and purified by chloride of
lime or otherwise, and especially his cellar,
privy, &c. Let him not allow to be eaten in
his house, cucumbers, watermeons, &C.,
and especially allow no spirltuous or fer
mented liquors to enter his doors, or pass
the lips Of any of his household Let the
diet of his family be milk and nutritious veg
etables, and their persons and dwellings he
clean, and he may bid defiance to the chol-
era, at least TO its fatality. Animal food
whether flesh, fish, or fowl, during the warm
season, will excite predispositlon to this
dreadful disease.
AS in most cases, spasms in the stomach
and communicating thence to the limbs
with great rapidly, ARE the earliest symp-
tom of the disease, whether with or without
venting, the remedy to the SUCCESS of
which there is the greatest amount of testi-
mony, is laudanum or opium in some form
A teaspoonful Of laudanum is given 10 an
adult every five or ten minutes until the
spasm is controlled, aiding it by fomenta-
tons of hot cloths, or mustard poultices to
the region of the stomach. Immediately on
the success of which, the warm bath, and
camphor, ginger, or the like may he given
TO induce perspratlon, and the tea of our
common Virginia snake root, will be found
admirably adapted to this purpose. So far
MS success has crowned the efforts of the
faculty in conquerng this formidable disease
these are the remedies most TO he relied on,
and with the success in producing perspira-
tionis the subsistence of the disease.
1t is n cause Of deep regret, th;.t brandy,
wine, and other spirtuous drinks have been
commented in the newspapers both as pre-
ventives and cures and still more that the
treatment of cholera by these means in Eng
land and France has been so warmly ap-
planded. One would think that the fatality
Of the disease under such treatment already
reported would bring it into disrepute, for
death almost invariably followed the attack.
Still more clear is the fact. that since Ma
gondie and others in Paris have substituted
camphor, ginger, and peppermint, for wine
and brandy, their success has been tenfold.
From The .NeD York Commercial Advertiser.
The following extracts are from an atti-
Gle published by DR.. De Kay OF New York,
who has witnessed the cholera both in Con-
stantinoplc and Smyrna, and had an attack
Of the dlsease, himself at the former place
The predsposing causes were err prs or
excess IN clet; exposure TO night air r-
regularlles in regimen fear, anxiety, &c.
The essence Of the disease nppeais TO
consist in an accumulation Of blood in the
vein; and about the heart.
The disease rarely occurred in any two
places under the same form; nor, as was
informed by the oriental physicians, did it
always appear under the same form for two
consecutive Seasons at the same place. The
chlef characters Of the disease, were, how
ever constant, and the same medical means
were employed. AtSmyrna, the most slrik-
ing symptom was n discolorng of the hands
which Mt Constantnople had mover wit
messed.