The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-02


other medic nal ingredients For aduis 1t is to be
prepared with little brown sugar in doses Of not
less than thirty or forty grains and we have both
given and taken it in as much tea spoonful doses
with perfect success in the most malignant attacks
of cholera. The caomel thus prepared is emptied
on the tongue and washed down with little cold
water. II Thrown up by the stomach another dose
is to be repeated immediately and il that s rejected
another is to be given. There is but one rule in its
administration, and that is to continue its repetition
till dose remains, when the vomiting viii cease,
and the calomel will by its uncontrolled action I'M
lock the liver and kidneys Bile will soon reappear
in the evacustons and increased discharges Of
urine, when reaction commences and the life of the
patient is saved. Simple adjuncts may be used such
a. temporary mustard plaster over the stomach,
cold or iced muciaginous drinks, in small quaint
ties; and should costiveness follow, little oil or
SIENNA and mama, or other mild purgatves, may
be used. The worst result that possibly can
occur is slight plyalism, or salvation, in one
case, perhaps in hundreds, which will soon pass of
with mild treatment, and without injury. In a.
violent attack of Asiatic cholera, which often ter
inmates in few hours there is no time for expert
ments with homeopathic nostrums, hydropathic
applications, quack mixtures, or with small opiated
that by remedy about the certainty and early
action Of which there shall be no mistake.
The writer Of this was, at one time, in 1884, at
tackled in . most violent manner with Asiatic
cholera, when he took about Six or seven even tea
spoons full of calomel before one remained on his
stomach. Reaction then commenced and he was
next day enabled to walk out. The only external
remedy used was the temporary application Of
ttoka II ,r1o ckn
yenience he felt was a slight ptyalsm, from his
susceptibility to the influence of mercury But this
was nothing to dying. He then tried the same
treatment in other violent cases with the most uni
form and perfect success In lS40 he experienced
another attack Of cholera in Liverpool, and again
cured himself by similar treatment He became ac-
quainted with DR.. Jackson, who had enjoyed great
experience in the treatment Of the disease during
long period in the Hon. East India Companys SER
vice. he informed us that the calomel practice in
the form and manner we have described it. formed
the most successful practice Of any other and that
it ia leading and indispensable remedy in the treat
ment of malignant cholera, none other being
thought of in India.
This mode of treatment is not only safe AID eff
cient, but II is very simple. Any one may apply it
in extreme cases, who may not otherwise understand
medicine, when no physician can be had. 1t is pc
culiary applicable to the treatment Of the disease in
its violent forms at the West. Calomel in large
doses, in such cases, is not injurious; small doses
may do more hurt, and yet fail to give relief, from
the want of time to act. DR.. Cook, of Kentucky,
is ded to have given table spoonful doses with
out injury.
DR.. vanderveer, of the Franklin street cholera
hospital, has pursued the calome practice with the
most decided success. His doses range in violent
eases from 80 to 40 grains Of simple calomel,
and repeated until the vomiting is controlled. He
also uses simplee such as mustard plasters tempo
rarity, and occasionally camphor and pellets Of ice,
but no opium, nor anything that prevents the due
action Of the calomel
large number Of patients reach the hospital in
adying state, and some expire the steps OF the
building, 30 that the apparent tally is greater
than the reality. He considers that no disease, in
its earlier stages, is more durable. From all the
facts regarding its treatment feel confident that
calomel, properly administered, is more certain
specific in the Il the disease while it remains
durable, than quinine is in fever aud ague.
By our recommendation large planter tried the
treatms ut on his estate in Cuba with the most
marked success The French Academy, we be-
heve, have offered premium for the best cure Of
cholera. We submit for their consideration the
Few method of administering calomel in its cure
especially when genuine and severe, as the best
that can be adopted. And nothing but ignorance
or prejudice will ever exclude its adoption in the
cure of violent cases Of spasmodic cholera or as.
phyxia. In using calome, of course the purest
and best should, if practicable, be obtained. With
care, it never deteriorates from age
1t is supposed that since the appearance of the dis
ease with unusual malignty, at Jessore, in 1871 to
the present PERIOD that not less than about eighteen
millions Of the human family have fallen victims to
it-about fifteen to sixteen millions of whom have
died in India and other parts of Asia, and the re-
mainder in Europe and America
The seeds Of the disease have been undoubtedly
sown in favorable localities, in Europe and along
the slluvia deposits of the great rivers both there
and in America, liable, by various causes, to be
brought into activity, If not vrulent the orr
ginal Indian disease, or as epidemic in its character,
yet in the form Of aggravated cholera morbus of the
country, terminating in spasmodic cases OF cholera
asphyxia.
No season passes in India without it, and it is yet
liable to travel with caravans and merchants to the
North of Europe, from India, and from thence cross
via England or France, to America. But many re-
turns Of the disease must be witnessed without
!, tracing its importation directly back to India.
MEANS OF PREVENTION.
The means Of prevention may be summed up
under the following heads, which are 50 plain, sim.
pie and appropriate that they ought to be printed
in handbius, and distributed over the city by the
city government DR.. johnson, of London. con-
densed the means of prevention into single
paragraph, as Acknowledgements. cleanliness
ventilation and fearlessness in fine, in a pur
suance Of ell those means which tend to preserve
general health and the avoiding Of all those causes
which predispose to common or Indigenous diseases
Of the climate"
:. The Incorporate use Of spirits.
3. To avoid taking cold by exposure to night air,
sitting or sleeping too much exposed to currents Of