Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-11-03
Cholera.

much ntOfmatlou TINT may prove useful
GinsoS SouAsE, london, Sept. %, lsis.
To the Editor Of the National Era
DEAR STA 1T occurred 10 me that your
readers might attach some Importance to the
suggesiions which have been made nv our
government on the subject Of the cholera,
nhd In my last communication | promised
that | would communicate them to you. IN
doing this, ] beg 10 observe that they OBJ
viously admit OF some improvement in their
order and arrangement; and, as ] have been
anxious 10 put them into a shape which will
most promote their utility, ] give them 10 you
IN what | may presume TO regard as an amen
ded form.
!. Observe the following sanitary arrange
ments in your dwelling and its neighbor-
hood
l.. II should be remembered that low and
marshy grounds, and the neiglborhood Of
hogs and standing pools. are Just the places
for the cholera 10 visit and remain in for a
long time.
.. Avoid the ~neighborhood Of uncovered
drains, unless they are carefully and fire.
quently cleansed.
}. Let every impurity, animal and vegeta-
bile, be quickly removed TO a distance from
your habitation, such as slaunhter-houses
pig'sties, cess-pools, offensive p~rivies, and
all other domestic nuisances.
IL you can effect the removal Of such nui
sances, exert yourself at once to do so; and
IT you cannot succeed. and you value your
life, leave their neighborhood.
1. Let every room be daily thrown open
for fresh air, and avail yourself Of the hours
Of sunshine, if there be any, and noon, when
the air is most likely to be dry.
8. Study great cleanness in every part OF
the house, at the same time avoiding damp
floors.
6. Let all the bedding and clothing be
daily exposed, during winter, to the fire, and
during summer, to the heat OF the sun.
J. Let crowding Of persons within houses
and apartments be avoided.
8. Avoid sleeping in low and damp rooms.
3. During the time of danger and alarm
from the presence Of the cholera, let fires he
kept up during the night in sleeping and ad-
joining apartments.
10. DO not place much reliance on what
are termed - disinfectants,'' such as chlorine,
chloride Of zinc, nitrate Of lead, &c.
1t appears by the evidence taken by the
Sanitary Commissioners that these things,
however useful in typhus, will not avail in
cholera. They will serve TO conceal bad
odors, but will not touch the cause that pro-
duces them. To use them with confident
hope OF success, is like trying to cure a bad
stomach by virtue Of peppermint lozenges.
IL. Attend TO your personal health.
l. Cultivate a cheerful frame of mind, and
70 about your usual business with the cGn6-
dent expectation that, if suitable means are
used, you viii through the Divine good ness,
be saved from the "pestilence that walketh
in darkness" Remember that the cholera
is not infections. You cannot expect bodi-
ly health apart from a healthy frame Of mind.
Q. Let excessive fatigue and exposure to
damp and cold, especially during the night,
be avoided.
3. Avoid cold drinks and acid liquors, es-
pecially under fatigue, or when the body is
heated.
!. Avoid the use Of cold acid fruits and
vegetables.
5. Let ardent spirits be avoided, and fer
men,ed liquors used only in great modera-
lion.
(This is given on the authority already no
ted but we must not. by repeating it, be
considered responsible for opposing tee,ota,
principles.)
6. Let a poor diet, and the use Of impure
water in cooking and for drink, be avoided.
7. Let the wearing Of wet and insufficient
clothing be avoided. The feet particularly
should be kept warm and dry.
s. To protect the stomach from cold, weal
a broad belt Of flannel, which should be fire.
quently changed, next the skin and arount
The waist.
This has been found serviceable in check
ing the tendency to bowel complaint, so com
mon during the prevalence of the cholera.
8. Let personal cleanliness be c~arefully
observed. All impurities left on the skin ar
absorbed into the system, where they operat
most injuriously.
III. On the appearance Of the first symp
toms Of cholera
/. Recollect that these symptoms are loost
ness of the bowels, which may be accompa
MED with pain or be entirely free from it,
The looseness itself may vary from one
three, six, or more, additional evacuation
daily, Of the natural color and oder but,
a more advanced stage, they become rice-c,
lored, and without the natural odor. Fat
delay has often occurred from the notion tn
cholera must be attended with cramps.
9. Recollect that in the earliest stage
the disease it is often difficult to ~distinguis
between the symptoms of a common attac
and those of the cholera. No evil can resu
from too much attention to the former, viii
fatal consequences may ensue from the ne
lect of the latter.
8. On the first appearance of the symptom
described-i. e., as soon as you feel uneas
ness in the bowels-aPpy for medical aid.
Delay may be death.
4. Should there be unavoidable delay
obtaining medical aid, you should take Il
medicine directed in the two following pr
scriptions:
The anti-chohrG Pills.
Take 4 grains of calome',
grain OF ipecacuanha powder,
grain OF extract of opium
Make into , pills.
Keep them in the house, ready for use, an
10 nrevent mistake, write on the box, ant