East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-08-19
DISEASES OF THE BOWELS.

Diarrhea means literally, ",ro-
aog hroggh," and as applied to the
human body, in connection with adis-
eased condition, its expressiveness is
easily seen. Whatever person eats
or drinks seems to pass thurogh the
system very soon, and with compara-
lively little change.
Simple diarrhea is the passing from
the bowels of a watery, hghtish col
ored substance, in considerable. guam
titles, at several times during the "a
hours, sometimes with pain; always
leaving sense of weakness, as if it
would be happiness to know that
there would be no occasion ever to get
up again.
If blood is passed instead Of thin,
Gght-colored liquid, it is then Dysentery,
or "Bloody Flux," accompanied with
frequent desire to stool, without be-
ing able to pass anything, with a SEN
sation so distressing, that the Latins
call it Iorminia, literally torment"
If, on the other hand, the discharges
are frequent imperative, in immense
quantities, thin as water almost, and
of lightish color, without any pain
whatever; that is genuine cholera
Asiatic cholera. 1t is quite sufficient
for all common, practical purposes, to
say that diarrhea, dysenteIy and Ash
attic cholera are one and the same dis
ease, differing only in intensity. In
diarrhea there is not much pain nec-
esarily. In dysentcry, there is a great
deal of pain inevitably. In cholera,
there is nerer any at all as to the bow
els. In diarrhea, discharges always
succeed inclination. In dysentery there
is most distressing inclination, with
no satisfactory, no relieving discharge.
by III imehss 9Sahasr aha ha fesving Is discharges.
In all these, there is one never-failing
circumstance always and inevitably
present, and never can be absent, un-
der any conceivable circumstances, it
is the quenchless instinct Of nature
calling for rest, bodily quietude, and
without that rest. a cure is always im-
possible, and death an inevitable event.
There is in these remorseless thirst.
Nature then calls for two things to sat
isfy her longings for rest and drink,
and if these two things are done wtth
sufficient fyOmptness, there is perfect
cure in nine cases out of ten. Perfect
quietude on bed, and chewing ice,
swallowing as large pieces as possible,
until the thirst is perfectly satisfied, is
all that is necessary in any ordinary
attack of either Of these three diseases.
To make assurance doubly sure, keep
the abdomen tightly bound around
with two thicknesses of woolen flannel,
eating nothing but boiled rice, with
boiled milk, i'll ordinary cases; if more
violent, let the rice be parcheu black
as coffee usually is, then boil and eat
it; or what is still more efficient, put
pound or more of flour into linen
bag, boil it two hours i'll milk, take
off the skin, dry it, CRATE it into boiled
milk, and eat it freely, and nothing
else, until the disease is checked.-If
these bowel complaints are checked
too promptly with laudanum, parcgor-
ic or opium, fatal convulsions take
place in few hours, as to children,
and incurable CONGESTION or infama-
tion of the brain i'll grown persons
AS bowel diseases are the scourge of
all armies in the fall of the year, these
suggestions should be widely circula-
| ted.-Dr. ". ". Hall