The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1855-05-19

cold hip-bath were employed, to coun-
teract the diarrhea; and while undergo
ing constant rubbing of the surface, the
patients remained In the water till the
sickness and diarrhea subsidized. After
the hip-bath and rubbing, wet bandage
or girdle was placed around the body,
upon which the patients went to bed -
after sleeping they were again put into 8
cold-bath. Cold drinks and cold food
only were taken during the GONZALES
cence: and by these means the disease
was overcome.
'"This appears like very simple treat
ment; but It may be made most ener-
getic one, as every physician acquainted
with such applications can easily see
The dripping-sheet with the brisk rub
bing upon its surface, is, as have before
said, powerful means of relieving
spasms, ARISING from whatever cause
The rubbing, which is not one tenth
part as good as the wet, was found in
Paris sufficient TO render calm and quiet
the poor sufferers, when the terrible
spasms were upon them.~ The water:
drinking and vomiting in nausea c:eanses
the stomach, produces tonic effect upon
It's internal surface, and thus forestalls
the vomiting in cholera. 1t helps, more
over, to cleanse the bowels and prevent
the diarrhea. The deep, cold hip-bath
| (for it is such that Priesnitz uses. has
Il very powerful effect in constructing
the opening capillaries of the mucous
membrane of the stomach and charges
from the bowels. Each and all of these
applications, if enefgetically persevered
in, tend most powerfully to keep down the
inordinate burning and thirst.
''The Persian treatment, too, is admit
rably calculated to quell the spasms and
check the vomiting and discharges, in
short, the disease 1t is of the greatest
Importance that the treatment be COM
meneed at The very BEGINNING Of tie at
tack. In no disease is this more neces-
sary. If every patient. could, from the
first of the vomiting and discharges, be
treated with energy according to either of
the plans above stated, l do not see how
it would be possible for any one to die of
the disease. a drunkard, with ''brandy
liver, - it is true, might be carried off
with low fever afterward; but am of
the opinion that the spasms, vomiting,
and discharges could in all cases be cured
if taken at the earliest moment my
self treated about fifty cases of cholera
in and about the city of New York in
1849, and l could not be said to lose a
single case. One old lady died of slow
fever afterward, but not fully under my
care. The choleric symptoms, although
very severe, were readily subdued in her
case. Others, however, who practiced
| the treatment were not so successful, los
ing almost every case,-from the fact,
probably, chat they were called too late.
"Theprofession generally in this coun-
try came to the conclusion that it is best
to allow the cholera patient all the ice and
ice-water he desired. In no disease is
the thirst so great, probably, patients
having sometimes drank theurine from a
chamber-vessel in their frenzy for drink
| myself preferred in the latter part of
my experience in the disease to give tepid,
or even warm water, rather than cold
1t appeared to check the vomiting sooner.
The same also was true of 'clysters. My
plan was. when the patient felt that vomi-
ting was about to come on, to aid it by
giving largely Of water to drink. The
same method also was followed in regard
to oysters But these and the drinking
always prolonged the periods. At the
same time cold water was used in the
most liberal manner externally"