Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1863-08-21
Diseases of the Bowels.

y. Diarrhea means. literally, "r,oaning
through ,sand as applied to the human body,
in connection with diseased condition, its
sexpressiyeness is easily seen. Whatever
person eats or drinks seems to pass through
9the system very soon, and with compare
lively little change. rai ff
Simple diarrhea is the passing from the
bowels of watery, lightsh-coored sub
stance, in considerable quantities. at several
times during the twenty-four hours, some-
times with pain always with sense OF
weakness, which makes sitting still deli
ciousness, 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, light
colored liquid, it is then Dysentery, or "Bloody
Flux," accompanied with a frequent desire
to stool without being able to pass anything.
with sensation so distressing, that the Lat
ms call it Iormina, literally torment
II, on the other hand, the discharges are fire.
quent, imperative, in immense quantities,
thin as water almost, and OF lightest color,
without any pain whatever that is genuine
cholera--Asiatic cholera. 1t is quite sut-
ficient for all common, practical purposes,
to say that diarrhea, dysentery and Asiaiic
cholera are one and the same disease differ
ing only in intensity. Diarrhea is watery
looseness dysentery is a bloody loo eness ;
cholera is an immense watery looseness.
In diarrhea, there is not much pain nee
essarily. In dysentery, there is a great deal
of pain inevitably. In cholera, there is
neuer any at all as to tae bowels. In dar-
rhea discharges always succeed inclina ion.
In dysentery there is most distressing in
clination, with no satisfactory, no relieving
discharge.
In cholera desire is always followed by
immense and relieving discharges. In all
these there is one never-failing circumstance
always and inevitably present, and never
can he absent under any conceivable cir
cumstances,-it is the quenchless instinct OF
nature calling for absolute rest, bodily quie-
tude, and without that rest cure is always
impossible, and death an inevitable event.
There is in all these remorseless thirst
Nature then calls for two things, TO satisfy
her longings for rest and drink, and if these
two things are done aoih sufficient prompt
ness, there is perfect cure IN nine cases
out of ten. Perfect quiet on bed, and
chewing ice, swallowing as large pieces as
possible, until the the thirst is perfectly sat
isfied. is all that is necersary in any ordi-
nary attack of either Of these diseases. Tc
make assurance doubly sure, keep the alb.
domen tightly bound around with two thick.
nesses of woolen flannel, eating nothing bu
boiled rice with boiled milk, in ordinary
cas- es if more violent, let the rice be parch
ed black as coffee usually is, then boil anG
eat it; or what is still more efficient put
pound or more of -four in linen bag, boi
it two hours in milk, take off the skin, dry
it, CRATE it into boiled milk, and eat i
freely, and nothing else until the disease i
checked. If these bowel-complaints arr
checked too promptly with laudanum, pare
goric, or opium, fatal convulsions take plac,
in few hours, as TO children, and incura
BILE congestion or inflammation OF the brair
in grown persons. As bowel diseases ara
The scourge of all armies in the fall of the
year, these suggestions should be widely
circulated.-Dr. W. ". Hall.