Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1849-01-17
TREATMENT OF CHOLERA.
Family Remedy.


u The simplest Remedy for the diarrhr
which in ALL CASES precedes Cholera,
,: to dissolve table spoonful of saeratus
II when thoroughly dissolved, take of tn
d solution a table spoonful every five or te
;, minutes, until the diarrhpa is stopped
e \ physician should be sent for witho,
e delay.
. Family Preventative.
i Wear flannel next the skin. Sc sal
cayane. or black pepper or mustard freel
with the food. avoiding pickles, acids
5 shell fish, and fish of all kinds, and fruit
: Of all kinds, except drieds figs. Eat onl
r one kind Of meat at the same meal Bee
: roasted, broiled or boiled. and poultr
broiled or boiled, are to be preferred
: More Extended Directions.
The Sanitary Commissioners, in tlei
report presented TO both Houses of the
British Parliament, speak favorably Of tn,
successful treatment Of the Cholera, adop
ted by DIR. Me. Cam. of London. We
therefore give the following directions
drawn up by that gentleman for the pre-.
vention and treatment Of the disease.
+ ]. PREVENTIoN.-I recommend comfor.
table and nutritious animal food of the
solid kind. warm clothing, an attention to
regular hours, free ventilation, and clean
illness; also lime washing the dwellings OF
the poor. | advise abstinence from spir-
ituous and fermented liquors. from fruit
and raw vegetables, from all salt fish and
oysters-the latter SPECIALIZATION all
excuses which debiltate the constitution;
and. above all things, deprecate :he use
of StrODO oI1rpafive rnaIicino
9. The EARLY OR PREMoNIroRY STAGE.
AND ITS TREATMENT.-So far as my OBJ
servation extended in 1889, found that
spasmodic cholera, with few exceptions.
was preceded by certain premonitory
symptoms of which diarrhGa or purgng
was the most prominent; but which symp-
tom was too often overlooked by the per-
son laboring under the attack. 1t there
fore becomes of vital irs portance. now that
we apprehend that the cholera is taking
the same route towards this country that
it did in 1882, that every case Of purging
which may occur, should. without loss of
time, be arrested in its progress; for SO
fully convinced am of the benefits re-
sulting from prompt attention to bowe!
Complaints, that believe the actual chol-
era symptoms may. in the majority Of ca
ses, be thereby prevented. The purging
IS for the most part accompanied by nau-
sea. and a disposition to vomit, followed
by sense Of heat and wei ght in the stom-
ach. slight cramps i'll the bowels and legs.
great weakness. diminished action of the
heart, and GOODNESS Of the surface of the
,ndy IL a., essentially necessary TO Pu:.>%
out TO the public, and more especially to
the poor. such remedies for this the early
stage, as are at their command, and at
what period of the disease they should be
employed.
When sickness with arrangement Of the
bowels is felt. that the patient--it an adult
mix table spoonful Of mustard,
Or double that quantity of common salt.
in half pint Of warm water, third part of
either to be taken every ten minutes until
free vomiting be produced: after the stom-
ach has been well cleaned out with more
warm water. thirty drops of tincture Of
opium should be given in a glass Of BRAN
DIV and water. to be followed up with pill |
composed Of five grains of calomel and
two grains Of opium, for an adult: small
doses of these to be taken at intervals of
every two hours, until bile is observed to
pass in the excavations; but in the event of
children being suddenly attacked with /
bowel complaints of this kind, recon-
mend one drop of the tncture Of opium
for each year of their age, to be given in
sugar and wafer; but if under twelve years
of age. then one grain of calomel is to be /
given every two hours. until the same eff
fect-the passing of bile-be visible in
the excavations.
Families should also have in readiness
a mixture of the following torm:-Prcpar-
ed chalk, 1-2 OF, white sugar, Jumps,
cinnamon powder or aromatic CONNECTION,
! drachm: sal volatile. drachms; CHINA
mon or peppermint water, half a pint, of
which mixture an adult may take table,
spoonfuls after each disordered notion;
and children under twelve years of age
one table spoonful. also strongly adj
wise the use of an embrocation of heated
to be rubbed over the bowels
and extremties to which the addition OF
part of the laudanum would be
a most important improvements; should the
ingredients Of this embrocation not be at
nand. mustard poutices ought TO be placed
on the stomach and bowels. i
Common wine bottles stone lars.
Tiled with hot water, and rolled in
1annel, are also to be applied to the stom-
ach and feet. If the apartment be at all
the patient should not be remov-
ID. but be Ike pit in perfectly horizontal po-
siton. as any attempt TO sit upright might
prove fatal. The patient will experience
great relief from the cramps by having
'andage tightly tied around the seat of
pain. Cramp being one of the most dis
ressing symptoms in the disease, if not
moved by the proceeding means, | can.
rom recent eyDerience sneak highly of
he internal administration of from two
o five drops of chloroform, in little GIN
ger tea or any warm fluid. as one Of the
most efficient agents in removing choleric
'pasms.
IT'S TREATMENT-ln this stage. all the
powers Of life are apparently suspended,
n consequence Of the intensity of Ii