Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-08-09
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,a1thi'tI LrLLspALE, July IL. 1854
Mr.. EDrroR-D Dear Sir: Isee in your paper
frequent suggestions in regard to the premOni-
tory symptoms Of Cholers, intimsting that there
are unmistaksble indications of is upProach,--
You will confer very great favor ifyou win
give the public, through the Blade, to understand
what are these signs, and the treatment most
proper TO check or to stop the progress OF the dis
ease. ....ts...-.., A SUBscBIRER.
I'VE give such information as we believe to be
correct on the .subject;l - ..ir...
The first symptom is mere rumblihg in the
bowels, sometimes 80 slight as hardly to be per-
ceptibie If man is temperate and regular in
his bubts, il may pass of. harmIessy, but a very
I little impfudence will bring on the next stage
diarrhGG-a simple diarrhoea, free from pain, and
not necessarily attended with rice water opera
tions. While the rumbling sensation exists,
there is frequently coldness at the pit of the
stomach a feeling Of what an Irishman de-
scribed as a feeling OF goneness or emptiness
Rice water discharges take place sooner or later,
next vomiting and purging, and generally cramps.
The pulse becomes small, thread-like and almost
imperceptble, the body assuming a purple cast.
with cold, .clammy perspiration, the features
|pinched and contracted, the eyes sunken. and the
hands ehrivelled, called, washerwomah's hands.
This is the collapse stage Of the disease, from
which the patient seldom RECEIVERS. ..g...
The great point in the treatment of the disease
is to arrest the diarrheed. The rice water evac-
uations are, in fact the serum of the blood, and
when long continued, very little Of the substance
Of the blood remains in the system, but the clot
solid portion Of the blood. While, therefore, the
diarrhea is suffered to go on the patient is going
rapidly to the grave by the exhaustion of hisvery
lire-blood. During this stage, however. the dis
ease is easily manageable. 5.,a .s....
The patient in this case could remain entirely
quiet, abandon work or exposure, and all impru-
denccs in eating and drinking. He had better
; obtain medical assistance at, one, In, case he
cannot reach il, let him take the following pre-
scription which we have obtained from and ,ex-
perienced physicians; -. .a.r ,.-.s E.s a,,,.
) Sugar of Lead 80, IS greins.
f Puiverized Opium J" -.s27.@ do ''"
i go Cayenne Pepper 80 os j. s 81 10 do
Divide into six doses, to be taken every half
hour or hour, according to the urgency Of the
case. sG - y-a sra7,.jo lagIHt ta7t}aa
Homeopathic and ether schools of practice
adopt their treatment. The great pointswith the
patient is to procure effective. medicine at this
x stage of the dsease.n,ai f.s v.ai5asu}aia.5 81
The symptoms named by DIR. Gardner, in a
Communication a few days since, are those of the
incipent collapse, II the victim has waited for
those symptoms to appear, his chances of are
greatly Diminished ,ss We understand that the
prescription first named in the article is very
powerful one to administer at the dirrhea stage
Of the disease though anFefective one judicously
administered, i-e,,s 4l.lr.5l s-.i s5a5 .aa All
$ Rational people. will remember that temper
: ance,, equanimity, employment without over fa-
tigue and exposure, preservation of the functions
Of the skin by copious use Of water and pure air,
d are necessary to avert the first approach Of the
p disease. ..i, -. .,- .,.... s..s.- ,tr
d When we tell our readers that excessive ner-
vous susceptibility attends the early progress 81
Il the attacks, they will perceive how necessary
. regular habits, freedom from fear, abstinence
from every kind Of excess regular and full amount
Of sleep, and entire quiet and rest are to the safe
re ty Of the Individual T.,
m We repeat from all the information we can ob
H. tain, that the disease be generally arrested
Il taken at the. earliest stages of the diarrhea.
,e Free perspration at other periods Of its preva
II ence has been regarded as evidence ofthe satet
II Of the patient. Now is it not We understand
4, also, that the person attacked falls more rapid
* into collapse, and that the collapse. stage
We brefer than it appeared in ls49.- Toledo Bled