The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1848-10-18
ruu Cuoyrpa-Hs PROGRESS and its cHre.-

Asiatic Cholera, that terrible scourge Of the hu
man race in both hemispheres, we are rcuct.
antly compelled 10 believe, from the latest for
eign accounts, is progressing with frightfl ra-
pidity eastward, and though no earthly power
can stop lis resistless course, much may be done
to lessen its destructive ravages. The hare
probability of its reaching the United States
should operate as a timely incentive, on the part
of.he people, to make every exertion to render
the plague as impotent as possible, if it should
visi, this continent. 1t would be a great mis-
fortune, indeed, were the Cholera to visit us
now, so Inprepared as we are, particularly
here, in New York. All summer. ship loads
Of foreign paupers, eaten up with disease. lam
inc, and filth, have been cast, locust like, upon
our shores and superadded 10 ahominabe filthy
streets, what better food in a warm climate can
he furnished for so devastating disease. We
observe that in some of the large cilies in Eng
land and Scotland, as we'll as in most of those
upon the Continent, the municipal authorities
are adopting every possible precau,ion, and in.
stituting every inquiry as to what sanatory
measures are best calculated to check the
scourge when il visits them and would be we'll
for US to follow their example. II is positively
ascertained now, that the Cholera has reached
the Greek Islands, and the Government fear
ing its further progress have issued orders Tor
the cleaning OF the streets, establishing OF hos
pitals and pharmacies, and taken all other hu
man precautions for its prevention and cure
1t is pretty clearly ascertaincd too. that well.
authenticated case OF the loa,hsume disease ter.
minating fatally, broke out on board British
brig bound to Greenock from port in the Baltic,
and no wonder therefore, that the circumstance
had created considerable alarm in Scotland,
and reused the authorities OF Ednburg and
Glasgow to the most energetic exertions to pro-
. mote the cleanliness of the cities. Thus we
see, from the Southern provinces ofRussla, the
disease has extended TO the Islands ofthe Medi-
terranean. and there is nothing stronger than
the proba bility that it will continue its strides
in this direction. The duty of our City Coun.
ellis, here, and elsewhere, all over the coun
try, in regard TO the action becoming them
ia the emergency, is too obvious for US
to point out. Early and efficient preparations
may save thousands of lives, while if a protect.
ing Providence preserves US from the scourge,
our precautionary prudence will have cost US
but little.
We have taken much interest in the peruSal
of an elaborate. series of papers, recently laid
before the London Board of Health, which pre-.
scribe an alleged infalliable remedy for Asiatic
Cholera. II was communicated for publication
by distinguished officer of rank, and long resi-.
dent in India. The details are exceedingly
minute and lengthy, but we shall endeavor to
give condensed, and comprehensive recapitu.
laiion of the material parts, for the information
of our readers. His first information as regards
Cholera, we are told, was derived from reading
an Arabic work Of great antiquity, and the ire.
quent perusal of oriental works on medicine,
with learned native physician of the principal
Hakem (physician) of the old Nawah of Dude.
The remedies prescribed for the cure ofthe dis
ease, were carfully written down in his memo
rsnda book. His nara i've is thus continued:
"When the cholera broke out in Bengal in
1917, it did not till after some time, strike me
that il was the same disease Of which had read,
and the faith had in oriental medicine did not
shake my confidence in the remedies prescribed
by our own medical men. But ! was at length
undeceIved: and after long experience became
impressed with the conviction that no remedy
had been discovered worthy ofreliance, having
tried everything, that had been favorahly spo.
ken of not always indeed without success, but
in the main with signal failure, so muck so, that
when case was brought 10 me, my experience
justified no hope, but, on the contrary. complete
despair"
He was now convinced that this was the dis.
ease Of which he had been reading, and pro.
cured information from the source above named
and he accordingly determined to Try the rem.
edy prescribed by the Arabian doctors. This
he did, and with the most signal success, even
in the most aggravated and desperate cases.
This ancient remedy for tie most destructive
disease OF either ancient or modern times does
not consist of rare or numerous ingredients.
They are articles in common use by all the Asi
atics, and can be procured easily in Europe and
America:-namely, assafeida, opium, black
pepper (pulverized.) We suhioin the receipt
without any abbrevia,ion, and commend it at
least to the investigation and consideration of
practitioners in general, and the Board OF Health
in particular:
CURE FoR THE CHOLERA.
Ingredients-Assafelida opium, black pep.
per pulverized. Those ingredients, more or
less pure, will be found in every town and vii.
lage.
The dose for an adult is from a grain and
halfto two made into pill. This according as
the ingredients are pure or otherwise. lfpure
l 1.2 grains will suffice.
The medicine should he made up into pills
Of one dose each, and kept for use in phal
well closed, as it is Of great importance to check
the disease the instant its attack.
The hest mode of administering the pill is not
BY swallowing it whole, lest it he rejected in
that state. but by chewing it and swallowing it
With the moisture of the mouth, and very little
brandy and water to wash it down. The next
best way of administering The medicine is by
hruising the pill in spoonful Of brandy and
water, and then swallowing it.