Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-08-05
A Plain Chapter on Cholera.
BY DR.. J. G. DUNN.

BY DR. J. q. DUNN.
Having been requested by several 10
give them receipt for cholera, il may
not be out of place to publish a few hints
which can be put IN practice by any one
having the least idea of the usual rene
dies and common appliances keptin ev-
cry family; pnd in doing SO shall dives,
my language of every professional term
that is not generally understood
1t is often the case that person at
tackled by cholera makes fatal delay in
in procuring physician, or is far from
his abode to have his attendance in time.
The disease is generally so insiduous in
its approach, that every little diarrhOea,
or uneasiness in the bowels or stomach.
should be looked upon with suspicion,
when cholera is known to be in the neigh.
borhood. A diarrhoe0 thus occurring
should be treated Immediately A good
warm bath as hot as you can bear it, and
plenty of soap to cleanse the skin-rub
dry with coarse towel until the surface
grow red, then take three pills of blue
mass, with eight or ten drops of Loudan-
um. This will prevent almost any at
tack of cholera in its first stages. When
il is about no one can pay TOO much at
tention to his diet or his feelings. Avoid
unripe fruit, or too much Of that which
is ripe. Bathe every morning in cold wa
ter, and rub the skin roughly, for it has
moIe TO do with cholera than people arc
generally aware of.
If you let diarrhDa run on fura d y
orawo, the first you know, you ate in the
spasmodic clutch of the cholera; when, ii
you had checked it in season. and remov.
cd the cause by slight medication, the ter
riblc grasp ay never have been laid on
you. II does not always warn you with
a diarrhoea; but often comes suddenly
Now ! merely wish to drop a few items
tf treatment 10 be used where medical
treatment cannot be Immediately procur.
ed. When person is attacked by chol-
era, boil large kettle of water as soon
as possible, strip the patient naked. put q
large mustard poul,ice over the stomach
and DO wells; then wringing ont three
blankets from the boiling water, ond wrap
him in them, winding dry blanke on
The out side to keep the heat III. Thus
you apply heat all over the body and bring
the blood back TO tho skin. What's the
use of your rubbing? 1t only creates a
little heat-and why not apply it all over
at once, with the blankets; you may put
some mustard Or red pepper with the hot
water if you choose. So much for the
outside treatment-now the attention must
be turned to the bowels and stomach.-
Intense pnrging and vomiting are almost
always presenl in cholera, and from THEN
exhausing influence, demand prompt
treatment. As soon as the skin begins to
warm with the blankets, the alarming
purging and vomiting ceases. Do not be
afraid to give Iaudanum-give SiGiy drops
at dose-a little dose ,UW do no good!
YOU have giant to deal wi,h--knock
him down with a big club, and when he
is down, keep him down. If the laudan
um is vomited up repeat the dose mmedl
ately. Mix together red pepper, warm
brandy or whisky, and little camphor
and give it occasionally but the grea
hope-the great dependence must be or
your hot blankets and laudanum. | viii
tell you why
Cholera is disease in which the bzoot
leaves The uesSe7s of the skan and i!
throa0n in upon the bowezs, stomach, ill.,
er, and other internal organs. Nature
in order to get rid of this unnatural accu
mutation of blood, strives to relieve her
self by purging it out and by vomiting i
up-but any one who has ever seen {
person bled, has noticed that the BLOOD
separates into two parts-water and clot
Now there are little vessels opening int
the bowels which let out the water par
Of the blood, but will not permit the clot
ty to pass; and this is the cause of 81
much water being purged and vomited
the blood thus looses the water which rem
dered it fluid and becomes useless in thu
veins; and in treating the disease ther'
is one important item TO be noticed; viz
when the purging and vomiting is some
what checked and the skin begins to taxi
warm sweat, then stop giving brandy
and resort to warm teas. The water o
the tea will be absorbed by the little YES
sells in the bowels and taken up to restor
the blood that which is lost. I talk o
warm sweats-there is often cold clam!
sweat in Cholera which is equally as ex
hausting as the diarrhoea, The hot blan
kets soon check it.
The great idea in cholera can be toll
in few word--bring the blood back I
the skin by applying heat to it externall
check the purging und vomiting by i'm
. mense doses OF laudanum.
Laudanum not only does this, but
also relieves the contracted state of tn
little vessels of sthe skin and thus oper
the way for the blood 10 flow back to til
s,rf CO. have never known case
die when thus treated.
Why may Charles Napier be said to ha,
gone North on pleasure trip :! Becau.