Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1854-08-24
E1NTS ON CHOLERA AND1TS TREAT.

IN the New York "Times," which pepper
says j, was written by one of The mos. dis
'inguIshed physicians in ,ha, city. The
Connecticut "Courant," in Copying it, re-
marks that an eminent physician in Hart
ford has pronounced i, to be The mos, COM
nonsense article he has seen on the sub
jec.. Being thus commended to our notice,
we submitted !, to an experienced physician
in Washington, uho also expresses "a
vorable opinion Of it. We therefore place
il before our readers :-Nat Intel.
OF all the dangerous diseases to which
our irsil frames are liable, cholera, the
present great scourge Of the human fam.
'ly, is The only fair and honorable one
!; gives every man chance for his life
]. raises the beacon III ht to warn him off
the dangerous quicksands. |, gives him
fair and timely warning. The mariner
who blindlv rushes on To the rocky cossi
trusting to luck to ge, off safely hardly de-
serves sympathy. The foolhardy wood
man who colIy places his naked foot upon
the coIled raillesnske in the open field,
where he can plainly see him, deserves the
fate tina. will surely follow such ,emeri-
~. No less rash are those who die Of
cholera.
We contend tina, no man has q RICH, to die
Of cholera, If he knows he is in cholera
stmosphere-no more RICH, 10 do i, than he
has 10 jump from The roof Of four-story
house. Cholera never strikes msn down
suddenly. ]. is aways preceded by dar-
rhea, often painless, lasting from ,w elve
to foiry-eigh. hours, OF even to five or
six days, which constitutes legilimstely
the first or premoni'ory stage Of The disease,
and is very easily cured.
You ask how This is TO be done. WHY.
it is only necessary for the patient to qui.
his office work as soon as he discovers
any arrangement Of the bowels, 20 home.
lie down, take good big anodyne, say for
~ or fifty drops of lsudanum in li,le
wafer, one-,hird Of Q grain Of the supha,e
Of morphepe, put large mustard plaster O.
yer the abdomen, end send for his ply stefan.
If his doctor is sensible man and an hon.
est one he will know whether il is necessa
~ Ia repeat the dose or not. In all proba-
blli,y i, is needed. The patient should a.
void ice and iced drinks, take as lnlle food
as possible for two or three days, and tina,
only of the ligh,es, kind, such as arrow.
root, sage, or rice with little boiled pure
milk, or crackers, or dry toast soaked IN a
liule black tea.
Do this and the disease is arrested at
once; i, is nipped in the bud bu, if this
warning premoni'ory sage is neglected the
painless diar1hea is changed very suddenly
INTO rice wafer discharges, both from the
stomach and bowels, and the sufferers life
is lost, thrown away
Can we better enforce the importance of
early attention 10 such cases than by a few
illustrations, drawn from scenes occurring
around US every day s? For example, a
poor woman bad taken some crude fruit on
Tuesday last. on Wednesday had painless
diarrhea all dag, but performed her usual
domestic duties. No doctor called dar.
rhea continued Wednesday night nothing
had been taken TO control it bu, a little
brandy, which did no good rose Thursday
morning still had diarrtea got breakfas.
for her husband; Immediately afler was Ia.
ken with rice water discharges doctor was
sent for, bu, she died in one hour; indeed
was dead before he arrived.
Here was life thrown away. 1t could
have been saved just as easy as to lie. her
die. Had the doctor seen her on Wednes-
day, or three or four hours before the COL
lapse, there is some certainty ,ha, she would
have recovered.
Another case: A laboring man exposed
himself unnecessarily in the sun and ca,
impruden,ly on Wednesday last, had diar-
rtes on Thursday, felt very bad at twelve
O'Clock, and concluded that he could not
lose the day; SO he continued, in spite of
the disrrlea, to labor during the balance
Of the day. No doctor; no remedy. AT
] l o'clock al nigh. had rice-waer discharg-
es. Doctor saw him in half an hour, but
was dying man, end died in two hours,
having fooli.hly thrown his life away.
A merchant Of this city had darrhea for
two or three days; j, was painless ; did moi
proven, him from going down town; he
though. j, was '',he bile working of"-A.
midnigh, he had wha! is called collapse,
and died in an hour. Thus one Of our
want Of fully apprecia,ing the danger of a
diarrhGa at this time.
The telegraph few days ago announc-
ed The fac, tina, distinguished physician in
neighboring city died of cholera in few
hours, bu. had suffered from diarrhea for
a whole week, which he unwisely neglect
ed.
These cases nigh. be multiplied indef-
niely, bu, if the fact we wish 10 establish is
fully impressed upon the mind of the read
er they will suffice !; for these lew examples
furnish complete history of every case Of
cholera. LIE, men then take warning and
see The folly. the danger Of such unPar-
donable neglect, thus SO certainly leading
10 inevitable ruin. Stay the diarrhoea, and
Ill IL ,xell I.ei il nm cQllanse. and