Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-10-26
BY COVER & GOLDSMITH. /

OF the physician often renders it utter
ly incurable. Warmth and nutritious
food, with gentle frictions to the skin.
are the only proper domestic remedies :
the humane and carefel use of specific
stimuli to the skin and kidneys, is adj
missible by the careful physician only :
no remedy can be conscientously used
by parent. Dropsy is said to be al
most invariably the consequence of too
early exposure to cold, and usually
comes on by tie twentieth day after
the fourth week there is little danger of
it, the equilibrium of the circulation be-
ing by that time restored, and the new
cuticlue consolidated. People beyond
the period of adolescence are rarely af.
tlicted with it, nor al they, indeed, by
any means as liable to scarlet fever
few cases occur after Is years. DR..
Watson remarks, that if asked for how
long time a person was capable of
communicating the disease to another,
ne would always answer ''that he did
not know" If he lived here, he might
know to day, if he would believe some
OF our oracular breth there is one
order of them who never fail to answer
every question asked Of them, however
absurdly impossible to suppose the
knowledge attainable. Apartments will
undoubtedly retain the infection for
weeks, as we know by personal obser-
vation; but it is soon dissipated from
the clothes of person who has been
near the sick.
What we have said with regard to the
treatment Of this often formidable dis
ease, originates in no captious desire to
find fault with our brethren. We con-
celve all, and more than we have said,
to be richly merited by large majority
Of the practitioners throughout our
country. Ihe insane desire of nine
tenths Of those who empty a physician,
to have something done," has caused
many a parents heart to bleed. No
medical man who respects himself will
ever yield to such ignorant presumption.
instances have occurred in this city, in
several instances under our own obser-
walton, OF two, three, and four deaths in
a single family, all Of which had been
subjected to severe medication and one
Of our citizens. heart broken at the loss
Of four daughters, felt justly called on
to give his views TO the public on hear
ing the alleged fatal treatment contra
dicted BY the physician. To our per-
sonal knowledge, they all had active
mercurial pnrg atives, and several of
them were very freely leeched! And
yet this very man insoently claims the
highest position in the medical profess
a sl9n n this ls Gt{ Verify if The chill
his treatment, we would require no So
ciety for the relief Of their beggard Off
spring when they themselves were
dead.
From what we have noticed in TWEEN
ty years observation and conversation
with thinking as we'll as heroic practi-
TONERS, it is our solemn conviction that
no treatment whatever for the milder
variety, and no active medicine for the
severer form, should be used absolute
and amUarying sUaraah an bed TO the fiji!
ertent Of comfort, ice 10 the head in ca
SOS Of deiirium supervening in the latter
stages, and brandy and ammonia to keep
out the eruption, are pre-eminently wise
and necessary measures, never to be ne
elected by the physician. These are
not medicines they are pure and sim
| pie agents, whose action is understood
as plainly as that Of fire and water
Ice constructs the blood vessels within
the membranes Of the brain, by its ap.
plication in bladder outside and bran
dy and amonia are as pure natural slim.
uli as heat. There is no speculation a
bout these agents, we know their power
As TO the conditions that require them
that is another matter. In the preseh
aspect OF the diploma market and cole
giate produce, we advise every paren
to watch the natural indications of de-
bility. Dizziness of the eye, frequen
signing, and general prostration of the
limos, are not to be mistaken; the,
mean debility. If no pain in the heat
exist, the remedies had better be triet
by the physician. 1t will not do to wait
a day may decide the matter fatally.
Dr. Watson considers laxative me
dicine and bleeding advisable. If thu
former be used, it must be extremel,
gentle, and watched with jealous care
We can scarcely conceive the lance
otherwise tina dangerous in any case
and certainly have never ventured it
application. In cases of great oppres
sion of the brain, leeches have beer
used with benefit. 1t is barely a sup
possible possibility if applied at all
they should be placed on the neck. W.
have used for liberation of the throat
at DR.. Watson's suggestion one drachn
of the elaborate of potass to a pint o
water as drink a teaspoon full be-
ing slowly swallowed occasionally
Gargling it is quite useless, as ii canno
reach the disease if thus used it Ger
tainly improves for the time, and some
times permanently, both the ulcers ant
the foul tongue. Blisters we conside
to be totally inadmissi6le. Caustic t,
the throat has proved beneficial in ou
hands but it requires TO be CAREFUL,
used, and reapplied soon. Pure chlor.
\ inc has been suggested.
DR.. Schneeman, German physician
has lately recommended the newell treat