The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-11-09
THE CH0LERAl


touching at IIavrc, where the inIcc
ton was taken on aboard. Fificci
NJ deaths occurred during the trip, on
of fifty or sixty cases. The yossc
l., was anchored at quarantine 10 miles
i. from the city of New York. Several
d ,aths occurred there tie ON 3d inst.
N In speaking of this alarming dis
!. ease, it appears that tho origination
of Cholera seems as little understood
r.. as when II first made its appearance
, in 1882, Then i, camc In by the way
of Quebec aud the ST. Lawrence. All
r tho roads of Northern New York,
4 leading into villages and cities, prtrol-
|, led and every traveller stopped and
). turned back Yet the pcstilcncc obey
ed not the voice of municipal author
lity, but marched on. Experience in
the treatment Of cholera has shOrn il
of much of its terror, aud whore ju-
= licious medical aid il at hand, aided
4. by careful nursing and willingness
in the patient to follow advice, the
, mortality il not great The difficulty
is in making the patient, in the carli
est stages, appreciate that he has the
disease. What are termed prcmoni-
tory symptoms, are 50 iusidious, are
attcnlcd with so little that looks like /
serious ailmcut, that necessary rcmc-
dies are put of until too late. Ifpcr-
sous could be made to feel that when
those symptoms appear cholera is
upon them, fewer lives would be sac
rifccd.
Without pretending to any profess
ional skill in the matter, we have lit.
tie faith in quarantine regulations
against cholera. Cleanliness of per
son and premises, prudence in eating
and drinking, good air, diligcnt-but o
not xcossivc-attcntion TO business, q
aud courage 10 meet the re
foe when love or duty towards those M
attacked demand, these are the best W
aud with attention To Il
these things, and immediate skilled n
medical aid, when "prcmunitions " ap- IL
pear avoiding Standardization --- W
there is little danger ofcpidcmic chol- sa
era. u'
Among the remedies for cholera the re
icc-bag remedy is attracting much at
tcntion. lee, MS we understand il, is y
not new remedy for cholera, aud in re-
truth ice, of late years, has become WI
more and more u medical agent in the mn
treatment of almost all manner Of dis to
eases. an
In letter to the London Times, DR.. Il,
John Chapman gives an interesting pl.
account Of tho result of his treatment tn
of cholera patients at Southampton, I'M
by the application of icc.bags to the
spine. lie states the points of his do
theory as follows: dl'
That the nausea, vomiting, copious 'a'
discharge ofthc we'll known rice wa tin
ter " stools, cold sweat aud peculiar no
odor from the body, are due to the H..
combined action ofthc hypcrwmic spi. -
nal cord aud sympathetic nervous cen u'S
icrs, in the same manner Os they in sh'
luce phenomena of the like kind, mn
hough less in degree, in eases ofSum-
ncr diarrhca, aud of sea sickness when
t is accompanied with diarrhca. ="
That cholera is neither contagious
ior infectious, in any sense whatever,
'xccpt through the depressing inau-
nee Of fear.
That cholera may he completely he
lvcrtcd, and when developed, cured
" modifying the temperature of the
piuol region, !"
After detailing the symptoms ortwo
eases of cholera which fell under s,,
his observation, Dr. Chapman offers >
the following suggestions tor tho usc n'
a, the icc.hsr. 81
/. The cold must be applied along
only narrow strip--not moro than 6
four inches broad in the adult-down :,
the very centre of the back. u
=, Tho cold must be dry, not wet Ii
cold. al
,. The leo bag should be continued Ia
along the whole spine only, until the =,
cramps aud algide symptoms have "
been subducd.
1. The ice hag should be continued a,
to he applied to the lower half of the NJ
spine until vomiting aud purging II
cease.
3, The patient should be assidously u'
watched to guard, in the stage of re- y
action, against cerebral or pulmonary to
congcstions, the dcyclopemcnt orwhich
will be facilitated 10y continuing the =,
ice too long in the ccryical aud dorsal "
regions &C
q, II such congcstions should occur c;
they will be denoted by hcavincss, in. n
cohcrcnce, wandering, aud laborious
breathing, aud may be subducd by ap. "
plying the double columncd water bag b'
at temperature of one hundred and W
twenty degrees, along the lower part h,
of the neck aud between the scapulc -,
1. III il bc necessary to induce sleep,
this may be done by the same bag in
the same way. IL
mn =,
THE fENIANs MOVING,
The Fenians in this District, it is h
said, number about 900 men, and il o
is we'll known that they have been A