Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-11-05
c~CNGEsTIVE FEVER.

TYphoid symptoms and method J treatment.
T'hissinfla mnatory stage is not always 10 be
looked for, Very frequently, like the Irish
mans doodle worm, it commences commen-
ces at the Other end--and is as great a pdz-
zler 10 The physician 10 know how il got there,
as il was 10 Tat 10 know how the doodle worm
managed 10 begin at the lower end Of his hole.
: Two Irishnen once agreed TO propose puz-
cling questions TO each otEer on a wager of
glasses for the crowd. 1.-THE question was an
swered promptly. the questioner paid the glass
es, otherwise the questioned Suffered
Among The great variety of questions pro-
posed, was one that amused me very much.
1t was, how does the doodle worm manage TO
make a deep hole in the earth without leaving
any signs Of earth near his hole! Oh. be
Jasus, answered the one questioned, he be-
gins at the other end. All; but how did he get
there said the qaestioner. Be the powers
that's a second question Of your " asking (:
you may answer it your self if you can, SO you
may. The questioner "suffered," as the to-
pers have it.
Thus it is with physicians in relation 10 the
typhoid symptoms Of ~congestive fever in lis
earliest development; they ulay ask the ques-
ton, bat I DOUBT very much whether it could
be answered very satisfactorily, even by them
selves. was called on Monday morning the
18th October to visit n Mr.. Michael Adams, a
respectable planter living on the highlands
about nine miles from Baton Rouge, aged
about sixty five years; of steady habits, and
very industrious. He was attacked nine days
previous with what was supposed 10 be the old
fashioned ague and fever. He had received
very malicious treatment for that disease FROM
our worthy and iteIligent nelghbor. }. L. Klein
peter, and success no doubt would have
crowned his phllan'hrop!c efforts, had 1t not
been tangled up with congestion of some of
the principal organs OF the digestive functions.
On the 18th the shake was rather long and
STRONG to be considered exactly a fair one by
Mr.. K. and he determined TO have the opfn-
ON OF a physician, as TO the why and where
fore that his patient was so roughly handled.
When | saw him on Mnnday morning, the 18th
at 2 O'Clock, be was in a state of stupor. mouth
and ewes open. pulse corded to the last ex-
notwithstanding a highly tuned harp string,
on which percussion was being gently mace.
Tongue black, hard. and dry !; mouth filed
with a black gummy substance, known to ply
sicians by the name Of sordes skin icy, cold,
and covered with clamy perspiFatien.
Prescription.-Strong brandy toddy, fric-
tons of ~tincture of pepper; quinine from Sc
veuty to a hundred grains with half thatguan-
tity Of camphor, every two orthree hours; diet,
corn neal mush, highly laced with brandy.
This was continued until the pulse become
| full. round aud soft, when the doses were d.
minished. On the night of the same day, |
saw him again and found him with a warm
| skin, clean mouth, good pulse, taking his nou-
risi,meat With pleasure, and cot oblectlng ye-
| ~ strongly to a continuance Of brandy toddg.
He was turned over to bis kind neighbor ].
B. X. with strict injunctiens, 10 keep a bright
look out.
This frightful disease has, as I had antici-
pated, become decidedly epidemic. For the
last zen DAYS | have seen an average Of six
new cases every twenty four hours, many
| strongly marked from the outset. ard al par
| taking more or less of coneestive symptoms
On Monday evening, the 17fh, saw young
Mr.. Collins who resided with his father, On
the plantation. He was a s~prightly intelli-
gent youth, of a very healthy appearance. He
sickened on Sunday evening at Baton Rouge.
whilst attending the funeral of our much Ia.
men'ed friend p. Hickey, jr. He acted as
one Of the pall-bearers, and consequently was
much exposed 10 the hot sun, and suffacating
dust. He was as, ! understood, very much
alarmed when first taken; but when ! saw
him Gu Monday evening, he eyinced no synap