Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1849-05-28
HOW 10 Escape the Cholera.

Although we have no symptoms OF Cholera
among u.s. yet we can hardly expect to escape
the visitation that is affecting so many of our
sister cities. 1t becomes US, however, to prepare
at once to give it such reception as will render
its visitation as mild as possible. We therefore
publish for the information of the public, the
sanitary regulations Of London, based upon one
of the most minute Investigations that ever was
made into the circumstances attendant on an
epidemic disease The editor of the London
Lancet says:-'These simple measures are worth
allthe nostrums or specifics which have ever been
vaunted for the cure Of Cholera. '-Sua.
| Let every imrurity, animal or vegetable, be
quickly removed to a distance from the habita-
tons, such rs slaughter bones, pig SITES cess
pools, necessarits and all other domestic nui-
sances.o
We do not believe that animal putrefactions
are ever connected with epidemic diseases, but
there can be no objection to their removal from
ha citations.
| Let all uncovered drains be carefully and fire.
quently cleansed.
Let the grounds in and around the habitations
be drained, so as effectually to carry off moisture
of every kind.
| Let all partitions be removed from within and
ventilation
| Let every room be thrown open for the ad-
mission OF air and this should be done about
noon, hen the atmosphere is most likely to be
dry.
Let dry scrubbing be used in domestic clean
ing, in place OF water cleaning
| Let excessive fatigue and exposure TO damp
and cold, especially during the night, be avoided.
Let the use OF cold drinks and acid LIQUORS. es-
1Iv- ,1pdor f,tio 10 I'D. ~,
body is heated.
Let a poor diet, and the use of impure water
i'll cooking OF for drink, be avoided
Let the wearing of wet and insufficient cloth
ing be avoided.
Let flannel or woollcn belt be worn around
the belly.
N. B. This has been found very serviceable
in checking the tendency to bowel complaint,
go common during the prevalence of Cholera
The disease has, i'll this country, been always
found to commence with looseness in the bow
els, and in this stage is very tractabe it should,
however, be noticed, that the looseness is fire.
quently attended by pain or uneasiness-and the
fatal delay has often occurred from the notion
that cholera must always be attended with
cramps. In the early stage here referred to,
there Is often no gripping or cramp, aud it is al
this period that the disease can be most easily
arrested
Let personal cleanliness be carefully observed
Let every cause tending to depress the moral
and physical energies be carefully avoided
Let crowding of persons within houses and
apartments be avoided
Let sleeping in low or damp rooms be avoided.
Let fires be kept up during the night in sleep
my apartments, the night being tho period of
most danger from attack, especially under e1-
posuTe to cold or damp.
Let all bedding andclothing be daily exposed
during winter and spring to the fire, and in sum.
mer to the heat of the sun"
DR.. Drake, physician of Cincinnati, whose
acquaintance with this disease is said to be as
extensive that of any practitioner in the West,
has published some suggestions on the subject,
which we think worthy of notice.
/. That leaving the city can do ITO possible
good. The disease is not contagious. The cause
of it has already spread through tho city and
has been received into the body of the inhabi-
tants. Those who escape to the country are
more likely to be i'll, than if they remained at
home.
2. Epidemic cholera has no premonitory symp-
toms. The diarrhna, which is supposed to be
its torerunner, is the disease itself in its first
stage; as positively so as when it has advanced
to vomiting, or GOODNESS and collapse.
3. The disease may be generally stopped, if
met in that early stage if it cannot then, it can
not afterwards. 1t cannot even then, if the pa
tient continues on his feet. His life depends on
his lying by.
4. All persons who have worn flannel during
the winter shduld keep it on, until the epidemic
has passed away.