Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1849-02-08

warm clothing. under flannel; keep your
clothes, and above all your skin clean, tina,
perspira,ion may not only be continued, but
promoted. / have adhered 10 this rigdly
Many have neglected this precaution and
escaped; but there has been plenty of deaths
which in all human probability were trace
able to a neglect of these essentials. This
city is as notorious for the abominable evil
of Drinking. as Sodom and Gomorroh were
for general wickedness. Every second door
you pass in the business part of the city,
you find one Of the recruiting stations for
the Internal Regions GROCERY. Many
of the most popular physicians here, belt.
away, under the ample length of a dandys
vest, at least quart of good old fourth
proof brandy every "a hours, willis, every
gentleman considers himself, Gin honor
bound" TO entice his friend to drink as
much. 1t was not wonderful, then, that
good brandy, mixed with pepper, and other
heating ingredients, was proclaimed by the
keepers of these generators Of vice, to be a
sovereign preventative to the cholera, back.
ed as they were by some of the faculty and
many gentlemen, some of whom made their
exit from the world, as if by the explosion
of steam boiler, while others were barely
saved by the aid of some skifal physician.
These examples had decided effect in thin.
ming the attendance at these Hotels de la
Diable.
have taken the utmost pains to be in
formed of the nature, progress, symptoms,
and cure of the disease, the terrific effects
OF which have attempted to describe TO
you; and am satisfied, beyond any reason
able doubt, that i. is one of the easies, disea.
ses to be known and cured, of any that we
are afflicted with; and of all these denomi.
mated dangerous, possesses the least to alarm
persons who are prudent. A child of 7
years old can tell as we'll as the Doctor of
70, when the premonitary symptoms appear,
and they always precede the second stage
(cramp, vomiting; watery-dischsrges, &c.
a day or two. Of all the 10000 cases which
have unquestionably taken place here in the
last month, it is asserted by medical men,
and generally believed correct, that the
Premonitory symphonic common ordi-
nary 6o,Del complaint-showed itself in
ample time to arrest the disease-which,
at that stage is easily done, by many sim
pie remedies, which will stop it, and may
thus effect cure. But the safest remedy
is one or more common doses of Calomel
Cooks pills, &C., which remove the cause
by acting on the liver, kidneys, &c. Give
these doses till you see there is healthy
bilious discharge; for lift is the Fremont
tory of Cholera, the discharges will grad.
ually, as the excavations continue. become
more and more without bile, and lighter
colored, till it reaches the rice-water dis.
charges, and as it PROCEEDS would hardly
stain paper. Then, indeed, you have Chol.
era-and as it proceeds, almost with the
speed of the lightning line," you must lose
not moment, but resort TO the most pow.
erful remedies, to stop these discharges
move the liver. kidneys, &c. Make pow.
der of 40 grains ofcalomel, 2 grains of OPT.
um, and 2 grains of camphor, for the weak.
est person, or moderate case. If a violen,
case, make the calomel so, 60 or 10 grains,
at the beginning-give it at once; in two
hours, if the rice-water are not turned to
bilious discharges, give another powder; il
that does not do, in another hour, bleed free.
ly from the arm-give another dose, and
repeat every half hour or fifteen minutes,
till the watery discharges are stopped, OF
the man dies--for nothing else willsave him
at this stage. When he begins to take pow.
ders, put him in bed, cover him with all the
blankets at hand, put hot bricks or hot bath.
of water to his feet and sides, and make
him drink, all the time, plentifully of hot red
pepper tea. As soon as the discharges are
bilious, stop the medicine, and in from l2 tc
10 hours, give thirty grains of Rheubarb te
work of the calomel; keep him in the house
till this is done, from outdoor air, and he i.
safe. Yours,
| JOHN WILSON.
To CLARK H. GREEN,
Glasgow, Mo.
! P. 8. The prescription have given i,
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