Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1833-08-10

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PRESCRIPTIONS and DIRECTIONS
for The treatment Of the CHOLERA,
secomsnemded ~ b.. Sam. Il. Caas.
wrig&s, Of Nasehez, Mi.sissippi.
TAKE 2 drachms Of Calomel, 2 do.
Red Pepper, Do CanPhor, rub together
ina mortar and divide into slx equal parts,
liable non purgative powders. Again,
take Calomel, Aloes, Rhubarb and Red
Pepper, each one drachm, and puiverized
Gum CamPhor, halfa drachm,dividc into
elk equal parts, liable Purgative powders;
- soon - any pain in the bowels - COM
planned Of, OF bowel complaint or vomit-
ing, ono Of the non-Purgatlve powders
should Be given without loss Of time, aud
ehe patient ordered to bed. Half q pow
der should be given after every spell Of
vomiting and after thin or whitish OPP
GRAFTON. After the pain has been reliev-
ed and the vomiting and after arrested
BY tho non-purgasive medicines, one Of
the puegasive powders should be given
every 4, 6 or 8 hours until bilious evac-
uations are produced, known by their
black, green or deep yellow color; in
the mean time, mint or chamomile tea
should be taken warm and in small guam
titles, frequently repeated, after bilious
operations il the patient be not restored
to health, ginger and Virginia snake root
tea, with or without SIENNA, according to
the state Of the bowels, should be taken
occsioraily. If the first dose Of non-pur-
gative powders does not produce perspir-
alton IN about two hours, it will be neces-
sary to repeat it, and if the pain, diarrhGa
or vomiting continues, moderate Quanti-
ty Of blood should be drawn: bleeding
should be rcsorted to at once, if there be
much pain in the head. In violent cases
the medicine should be assisted by anus
tard plaster over the stomach, rubbing
the extremitles with mustard or hot tur-
pentine, and the application Of hot tur-
pentine to the spine, when the rice water
purging continues; after the vomiting has
ceased, | have given a tea-spoOnful Of
al pepper in alum water as in injection
with good effect.
Whoever expects, by the above treat
ment, or any other that has been devised j
70 euro pulseless cases Of Cholera, after
the vomiting and purging has ceased from
oecess,ty, may expect 70 be disappointed
before the vomiting and purging have sub
sided from a loss Of vital energy, is the
time to act, and the sooner the hetter.-I
Before the vomiting or cramps have taken
place, or before the diarrhea has gone to|
any extent, the above treatment should
be commenced. On many plantations .
severe pain in the bowels 10 the FIRST and
only premonitory symptom in Cholera B
he noa-purgative medicine above advised
Will relieve the pain with more certainty
han iaudanum, opium or morphine, and
iffollowed up by the purgative medicines
will cure the patient efIectually; whereas
if relieved by iaudanum. opium or NOR
phine, the patient is almost sure torelapse:
besides these objections to Opiates, they
increase the thirst and are less efiectual in
checking the vomiting and rice water
discharges, and also in easing the pain it.
.elf, than the medicine above advised.
Cholera il very insiduous disease, il
makes its approach BY disturbance Of the
digestive organs; the disturbance is gen.
srally manifested by whitish diarrhea,
but wish it to be particularly UNDER
Mood, that it is sometimes manifested by
! bilious diarrhea or by bilious vomlt-
ing aud most generally among negroes,
BY pains in the bowels resembling choIic
~ BY headache and foul tongue. Eortu-
nately, however, in which ever way Chol-
era commences, the same remedies are
in all it's stages, from its pre-
symptoms up to the stage Of abb
soiute prostration or collapse, when no
remedy can be relied on with certainty.
has fully convinced me that
the premonitory symptoms Of the Chol-
IRA. however mild they may be. should
be treated like Cholera itself; in treating
The premonitorv symptoms by mild reme-
dies, such as Castor OIL. Rhubarb, small
doses Of Calomel, sc. there is nothing
more easy than for fatal MISTAKES to be |
ou,.. ritted. The patient may complain
4 the medicine operating too much and
Re eyacua. tons may soon 10 colored by
,cia or bile. but the disease may be at
work and not the medicine. ln-such cas-
3. Cholera with its most aPpaling symp-
IONS 10 near At hand; nothing can arrest
q. o.ro. h.,s - mr. more active dOeesj