Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-08-23
nYsENTeRY.

DYsENTERY.
Boiled milk thickened with -four, and taken
in first stages Of Dysentary 10 in all common
cases an invaluable remedy. Boiled milk
without -four is too harsh.
CvRE FOR DYsENrE RY.--At this season OF
the year, when 90 many persons are afflicted
with this most distressing disease, every thing
likely to afford relief should be made public
The following is said to be certain cure. a
trial of it, at least, we should think, could DO
no harm. Take of Indian corn, roasted and
ground in the manner of coffee, (or OF coarse
meal browned) and boil in a sufficient quantity
Of water to produce strong liquid like cotiee'
and drink a tea cup foil warm, two or three
times day. One days practice it is SAID
viii ordinarily effect cure.
The former of the above paragraphs we copy
from the Southern Agriculturist for July, and
the latter rom the American Farmer Of Aug. IA.
The intelligent editors Of these respectable peri
odicais cannot be acquainted with the pathology
Of dysentery, or they would not advise their
numerous readers to rely for its treatment upon
such remedies. The morbid conditions which
chiefly require attention in the treatment ct the
disease are Inflammation Of the inner coat OF
the lower tract Of the bowels; arrangement
in the functions of the liver; and 8 deficient
perspiration with more or less fever
Now which Of these conditions is removed BY
flour pap or corn mtal cefee7 We may be ask.
ed, What remedy then, should be used ! Were.
ply, There are few diseases which can be sue.
cessfulIy or safely treated BY specifics; Of these
few dysentery is not one. To advise specific
remedy for it would be not unlike the advice toa
steamboat captain on the Pee Dee to turn his
PROV to given point Of the compass and Seer
right ahead. Properly to prescribe for dysentery
would be to write treatise on. the disease; and
when it was done, man might almost az ration.
ally expect to make himself q practical cutler
by reading, as to apply correctly the rules laid
down, without previous practical aequaintaneo
with the disease and its management. Dysents-
~ is but modified form Of bilious fever, proda-
ced by the same general causes, and requiring
similar treatment, modified BY the local symptoms.
An eminent English writer has called Il "ssssp
IsraovEasA." fever turneo inward. It is NOT to
be triAed with, especially when it prevails as an
epidemic or Ia locations and seasons in which
malarial fever Of high grade or malignant char.
acter occurs. In addition TO tho eomnon has.
ards Of 6illous fever, the ini7SmuzzJSn In dyson.
terry may extend to oil the coats ofthe bowels, in
which case the disease becomes eminently dan
gerous.
Cases sometimes occur, however, in whicha
physician cannot be obtained Immediately, and
others are so mild that they hardly render il ne
ccssary to consult one. We shall, therefore. as
we are on the subject, give the outline Of suit
able cotrse Of treatment ;-premising that man
who Is within reach Off p,ysician Gn whom be
can confds) and able to pay for his advice. ought
never to tamper with himself; or hc may do, or
suffer irreparabls injury when he leasts suspects
it, as we have not unfrequently seen happen.
In very mild,case Of dysentery, at time
whom bilious affections are not prevelant or
severe. the efforts Of nature, with rest aud abste-
miousness ON the part ofthe patient arc often suf
ficient to overcome the disease. in such cases we
would not object to flour pap or eorn-mea! coffee.
In cases little more obstinate, but still mild.
nething more may be necessary than ~ or ~
grains (equal to small teaspoonfuD ofrhubarb'
or dose Of castor oil ipecacuana will answer
Is well as either, taken in one or two grain doses
repeated every two hours till it operates on the
bowels. 1t may be made into. pills or mixed with
water.
In seyerer cases no treatments to be relied
On in this climate which DIES not include the
use of calomel, or mercury in some form. From
10 to Is grains of calomel may be given every
day. o, eysty second day, according 10 the sevef.