Litchfield enquirer., 1858-11-04
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 Charleston, New Orleans, Mobile, and some other Southern cities, have suffered severely from this disease recently; lfor have its raya- .gess sentirely ceased with fhe season. Meaieal men lss with most other diseases) do#not agree atsaH as to its essential nature nor causes. 1por witllrespeet toits proper mode of treatment. Some, prescribe tde1 calornel and sopium plan :: others reduce with bleeding and tartar cmctic :: and others give brandy and quinine. The gen eral result is, about one half of all the patients die
 We do not believe Alis territie mortality is necessary. We do notsrcgard tl,e yellow fe- yer as very5dargerous in itself Like all other levers, it is an effort of the system to free it. self Of morbid matt CTS, and would generally be successful if left entirely to itself. We be- lleve, therefore, that the mortality from yellow fever is maiIly owing to tTe nndication. In other words, we believe the doetors LiR more than ahe disease does. This is equally true of all other fevers, in fact, of almost all other dis eases, as we can show by abundant statistics, and will, whenever the profession will join is ! sue with us on this point ~
 I eliow fever is but q severe form of typhns. The "yellowress" and the black vomit," when present, merely indicate great dtraalge- net,t ill tie function of the liver, condition which frequently happens ill al forms of putrid fever, whether typhod or remiltent. The ship fever is another form of tyl'hus, and scarcely differs from yellow fever in any important p.;- biological condition, and requires precisely the salue plan of treatment fsa EH
 All the levers named, or rather all the forms of one fever, and, indeed, all varieties of ma i lignant fever of pu,rd form, are refcrabe to two conditions, which constitute their causes, viz, masn or morbifc matter from dccaying organic matter outside of the patient, and morbid humors, foul stcretions, CT retained ef- fcte matters N lthin. UsunlIy all of these con- ditions exist. A person whose veius crcula. ted no extraordinary impurities in the blood, | could no more have any malignant disease, : than pure water could undc,go fermentation Physiological hubts are, therefore, a perfect protection, as we shall cndruvor to demoll- strate at least in one case, if we ever have the opportunity to visit New Orleans as we expect to, during yellow-feycr epidemic
 But the lo!i7proftssional canno5 understand our tleor;zing, aud the regular physicians will not pay any attention to it. therefore we come at once to the practical application-the tleatm, It of yellow fever. .afr r.a
 A New Orleans physician has lately pro- posed plan for the prevention of yeiIow-fe- yer. It consists, substantially, in fasting a couple of days, drinking plentfully of cold Wa ter, and then dieting very plainly and slaring- y warm baths are also to be taken daily.
 Though this plan could be improved, we have no douLt of it's entire tE:ccncy. It is, as any one ought to he able to understand, a process of publication. Fasting, ablutioa and watel+d drinking are admirable ways to enable d body to get rid of it's impurities, and then, the body being purified within, it can successfully defend itself against the outside contagion or infection. The plan is strictly Hygeio- Thera- peutic. ....t.- .. The bydropathic plan has cured many eases of yellow fever-soue of them in New Or eaHs-end as far as we have heard has never failed to cure, where no drugs of any kind were employed. All that is required is to give the patient cool water to drink according to thirst cold wet cloths to the region of the stomach so long as the sickness, nausea, or burning heat contnuis frequent tepid or cool abldtions to the whole surface so long as the heat continues above the normal standard :; free exposure to the fresh air-the patient should be placed outdoors in the shade if pos sibIe abstinence from all food, and all slops, broths, cordials. and every mixture or thing having the semblahce of food or medicine, ull- til the patient is fairly convalesccnt.
 Uyater Cnre JoMmal