Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1854-07-27
From the Independent Press.
4 Plain Chapter on Cholera.
BY D1i. JOHN g. DUNT.

Having been requested by several TO give them
receipt for cholera II may not be out OF place to
publish few hints which may be put in practice
by any having the least idea of the usual rem.
edies and common applications kept in every
family. and in doing So shall divest my language
OF every professional term that is not generally
understood
1t Is often the case that a person attacked by
the cholera makes fatal delay in procuring a ply
stefan, is too far from his abode to have his at
tendance in time. The disease is generally so in
sGuous IN It's approach that every little diaIrhoea.
or uneaslness in the bowels stomach should be
looked upon with suspicion when cholera is
snowu TO be in the nej ,hborhood 4 diarrhoea
thus occurring Shoul3 DE treated immediately -
\ good warm bath, as hot as YOU can bear If, add
plenty OF soap 10 cleanse the skin; rub dry with
coarse towel, until the surface grows red then
take two pills Of blue mass with eight or ten drops
OF laudanun. This viii prevent almost any at
tack of cholera in It's FIRST stage.
" hen it Is about 10 one can pay too much at
tention to his diet and feelings. Avoid uuripe
fruit, or too much of that which is ripe. Battle
every morning with cold water, and rub the skin
thoroughly for it has more TO do with cholera
than people are aware of
If you let a slight diarrhoea run on for day or
two, the first thing YOU know you are in the spas
mode clutch Of cholera; when if you had checked
it in season, and removed the cause, by slight
medication, the terrible grasp might never have
been laid upon Won. 1t does not ALWAYS warn
YOU with darrhGa, bat often comes suddenly
Now, | merely wish TO drop few items of treat
ment, 10 be used where medical treatment cannot
be Immediately procured. When person is at
tackled by cholera, boil a large kettle of water as
soon as possible, strip the patier: naked, put a
large mustard poutice over the stomach and
bowels then wTneng out three blankets from
the boiling water and wrap him in them, winding
a dry blanket the outer side to keep the heat
in. Thus You apply heat ali over the body and
bring the blood back to the skin. " hat is the
use of your rubbing 1t only creates a little
heat; why not apply il 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 stou-
ach Intense purging and vomiting almost
always present in cholera, and from their exhaust
ing 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 Iagdanum-eIve six drops at
dose--a little dose viii DO no good--you have a
giant TO deal wirh-knock him down with big
club, and when he down keep him down Ii the
iaudanum IS vomifed mp repeat the dose immedi-
ateiy- Mix together red pepper; warm brandy OF
whisky. and little E!hor, and give il occasion
ally; but the great hope the great dependence
must be on your hot blankets and your laudanun
| viii tell you why:
Cholera is disease in which the blood leaves
the vessels of the skin and is thrown in upon the
bowels, stomach, and other internal organs Ma
ture, in order to get rid of this unnatural accu-
mutation Of blood, strives TO relieve herself by
purgiug il ont aud vomiting it up; but any one
who has seen persons bled has noticed that the
blood separates into TWO parts water and clot-
Now there are little vessels opening into the veins
and in treating the disease there is one important
item TO be noticed, viz when the purging and
vomiting is somewhat checked and the skin begins
to take on warm sweat then stop giving brandy
and resort to warm teas The water &C the tea
VIII be absorbed by the little vessels in the bowels
and taken up TO restore to the blood that which it
lost / talk OF warm sweat-there is often a cold
clammy sweat IN cnolera, which Is equally as ex-
haustng as the diarThGa. The hot blankets soon
check it.
The great idea in cholera can be told in few
words-bring the blood back to the skin by ap-
plying heat to 1t externally check the purging
and vomiting with immense doses of laudanuyn.
Lau3auum not only does this but il also relieves
the contracted state OF the vessels of the skin and
thus opens the way for the blood to flow back to
the surface. | have never known 4 case TO die
when thus treated.