The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-08-27
Dysentery.

DYsENTERY is literally a difficulty AMONG
the intestines !; it is a discharge of blood from
the bowels, accompanied with what has been
aptly called an atrocious pain You feel AZ
If you would be relieved by an evacuation, but
when the attempt is made there is fruitess
straining, termed tenesmuS, and nothing comes
of it, unless it be blood. The rectum, or last
foot of the lower bowel, is the main seat of
dysentery, which is commonly called bloody
hux.' 1t should be always considered dan.
gerous disease. At first the discharges are
odorless ; but as the parts come more under
the Influence Of the disease, they become dis.
organized, rotten, and insufferably offensive.
DyseDtery most abounds in hot, dry wealth.
err, and is ottenest caused by bad air, sudden
check of persplration, or by whatever makes
the skin OF the body cold. In fact, dysentery
may be considered an exaggerated or aggrava'
ted dlarrhea-the latter is water, the former
blood
The great distinguishing features of dyson
terry are bloody passages with frequent,
frutless, and painful effort to stool. 1t is
one of those diseases which are very apt to
60 on to fatal termination, if let alone; q
! disease which is often made more speedily
fatal by being ignorantly tempered with and
whether blood is passed from the bladder or
the bowels, skillful physician should be
called in as promptly as possible, as promptly,
indeed, as II it were an attack of cholera but
while he is coming, there are several things
which may be safely done for the comfort Of
the Sufferer, if not for his cure. The patient
should not sit up a moment; should keep as
quiet as possible; should eat absolutely moth.
ing but boiled rice. or -four porridge, and
swallow bits of ice to the complete quenchipg
of the thirst A little cold faxseed tea may
be swallowed from time to time. A favorite
prescription of some of the old physicians of
past generation, and which is now said to
be in vogue in Russia for several forms of
diarrhea and dysentery, is the use of raw
meat thus, take fresh beef, free from fat,
scrape it into a pulp with knife, season il
with salt to make it more palatable, or with
sugar for children, to whom begin with one tea.
spoonful three times day, gradually increas.
ing the amount as they become fond of it.
Adults may use it by spreading it between
two slices of stale bread. Its merit consists
in its being easily digested, very nutritious of
small bulk, and readily assimilated to the sys
tenn. 1t is we'll known that children having
the summer-compaint will ravenously eat or
rather chew Or grind between their gums
piece of the rlnd of bacon or ham, to which
Is attached half an inch of fat and begin to
improve in few hours. The whites of forty
eggs whipped, and then sweetened with white
sugar, and drank largely through the day,
without any other food, is an admirable reme-
dy in these ailments. Or, Tor dysentery or
orotracted diarrhea take half teacup of vim
'gar, with as much salt as it will take up,
eavlng little excess of salt at the bottom,
I'D boiling water till the cup is two-thirds full
emove the scum, let it cool, and take one
tablespoonful three times day till relieved.
L has not failed of cure in many hundred trl-
'ls.-HalPs Journal of Health.