The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-05-09
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DR. Bowel has published comma
nication on the TRANSMISSION of milk as
substitute for blood in cholera. To OBJ
tain supply of blood for TRANSMISSION is
of course at any time very difficult, and
especially so during any epidemic, at
which season no one would like to take
SO much blood from healthy person az
would be needed fer fear of inducing dis
case. Chemical mixtures To- resemble
the blood had been tried in England,
but these lack the impress of vitality. !
Milk, on the other hand, while elossly /
allied to blood, has this Connection with Z
life, and has been used in number Of
eases of collapsed patients, with great
benefit, even securing recovery in a
large majority of cases sgsrissrg s-ssz
9 Two physicians Of Paris, have pub
lisbed avery important memoir, the OBJ q
ject of which is TO make known the i'm q
mense resources which the healing ars 9
may draw from the seed4of parsley
This common indigenous plants possess-
es incontestable febrifuge properties;
the decoetion of its seed may be substi-,
tuted for that of cinchona,a and the 40. /,
tive principle which has been drawn from
it, and which they design under the nams
of apiol, is equiyalent,to to quinine in the
treatment of the local intermittent fe. /
vers.
4, The TYdpelZo (Iowa) IsstSlsgenccr
gives An account of a. critical, but sue
cessful surgical operation performed in
in that place, on a man who had swal- !,
lowed bar of lead while practising
some peculiar tricks On account Of
taking some acid food, the lead began to
corrcde, and he became very sick. Il
was soon found that every other attempts
to. extract the lead would be unayaiIing
save opening the stemaeh-probably
the first operation of the kind on record.
This was done, and the bar, eleven in
ehes long, was extracted, and the patient
was at last accounts doing woll. !
We belive it was Dr. Tehudi shat
gave the first account of the arsenic eat
ers of the Carpathian mountains. This
drug gave them blooming complexiens,
and enable them to endare long ascend
ing walks on the mountains without
overtaxing their lungs. They had, how
ever, to increase tho dose continually.
and life closed between the two alterns-
sives, TO stop and die of inanition, or 90
on and perish of the excess. A osrrea-
pondent Of the Zri6u,se. speaking of the
same habit, refers to the statements of
NJ Montiguy, French Consul in China,
in reference to the use of arsenic by the
Northern Chinese. He says they min.
gle it with their smoking tobacco. The
custom is peculiar to certain provinces,
and so common that, according to the.
testimony of missionaries who lived 4.
long time there, tobacco free from ar
senic is not sold. The same Witnesses az.
sured the Consul that the arsenic smo-
kers were stout fellowB,with F" lungs like
blscksmith's bellows, and rosy a..
cherubs." The publiction of Msntigny's
statement has called out letter from
DIR. Londe, who aznouuces that some
years ago, in the course ofa discussion
at the Academy of Medicine, on the
agents to he employed TO cure tubular
consumption, he told the assembled doc
tors that he had found but one SuecesS-
full means Of combating this dreadful
disease; that means was the smoking Of
arsenic The doctor reafirms his COM.
mendation of this remedy. How singu-
lar it would be, if a remedy for the vide.
spread plague cf consumption was to be
found in the counter poison Of this hoE-
rid and inexplicable habit. -