The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1864-01-08

the form OF an epidemic, ana II auects the
adult AS well as the child, the robust as
well as the feeble. and the temperate as
well as the Incorporate. In some Of the
epidemics which swept through Europe
and Asia few centuries ago, it caused
most appalling devastasions and in
the visitation it made to both east
ern and western continents, about the
middle of the last century. its virulence
was most fearful, and its course through
our country for the last FIVE years, shows
that it has lost none OF its most fatal pow
er.
SYMPTOMS OF THE DISEASE.
The SYMPTOMS of Diphtheria are vaTl-
Gus, sometimes advancing slowly with
mild tendency to putrefacticn, at other
times, the advancement is almost electric
in its speed and "frequently destroys the
patient in from FIVE to twelve hours
(Proof. Cook.
The disease generally commences with
distinct sense of lassitude then chilliness
followed by fever, with pulse varying
from 80 to 100 per minute. The tongue
is usually covered with dirty, yellow
fur-at first, slight soreness of the throat,
gradually increasing, the voice becoming
changed 10 husky and smothered tone,
swallowing difficult from the beginning
neck swollen below the angles of the jaws,
and in front Of the ears--thirst is COM
planned of, sometimes nausea and vom-
tiug--a sense of prostration and the ap'
petite gone. The tonsils and adjacent
parts are swollen and of an erysipelous
color, and upon this the diphtheric mem.
brane forms being of white, greyish-
white or yellowish color, much rasem-
bling canker ulcers. This membrane is
usually in small irregular patches, but
not unfreguently it forms one unbroken
sheet, covering the fauces and all the ad
jscent parts. The breath becomes fetid,
there is q thin acrid discharge from the
nose--tightness in the throat and diff
Guilty o! breathing are complained OF some
times respiration is hurried often short
dry cough sets in. the diphtheric men,
brane becomes dense, and sometimes
spreads downward, or upward into the
head causing partial or total aeafness and
"not uncommonly psroxysms of suifoca-
ton are suffered, where the membrane
tends toward the lungs, the patient liter
ally choking to death. (Prof. Cook.
There are various other symptoms OF
minor importance, which are essential to
full diagnosis of this disease. but as
thew are Of little benefit to the common
reader, shall not occupy the space for
enumeratng them. All the public de-
sire is, condensed view of the symptoms
of disease, a correct description of treat
ment, and safe, proper and efficient
medication, all of which, I shall endeavor
to give. l am fully aware that the treat:
ment shall prescribe, will be hooted at
by the Allopath, but if certain mode of
treatment has relieved two hundred cases
in a certain disease, cannot see why it
should not receive passing notice, even
if it does not accord with the regular poi.
son system. have had the experience
in this disease, many physicians, hence,
have not tested as fully as / should wish
the remedies used in this tnalady.
While in Iowa, l treated nearly l50 ca.
ses of diphlheria, and since practicing
here (about fifteen months) over 50 cases
more, making about 200 cases in all, OF
yhich number, not one has died. do
not approve of the Allopathy form Of
treatment in this disease, any more than
in any other, for | am satisfied from sta
tistics in my possession, that the treat
ment Of tearing, poisoning and burning
as practiced in diphtheria, has caused
ten deaths, at least, where there need
have been none.
The average number of deaths, under
mineral treatment, has been about out oi
every six; while the average number un'
der the treatment Of Physio- Medicalists'
has been one out Of every seventy three,
Hence, candid reader, leave you to
Judge which mode of treatment is nearest
in accordance with nature, and which IS
tha eofast and most afficient mode of med