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mond Sentinel.
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES AND TREAT
MENT.
The fact that cholera has already made
its appearance in New York harbor, and
that preparation is everywhere being made
for its reception, will gire special interest
and Importance to the following article
from Halls Journal Of Health:
The "Asiaic Cholera" as first known in
this country in.l 832 and 1883. is chiefly
Il disease prevailing in warm weather, or
rather, i'll warm atmosphere, for it can be
created at any season. and in the coolest
latitndes, by combining the three essential
requisites, namely, moisture; vegetable de.
cay, and regular heat exceeding eighty
degrees. The great and Distinguishing
feature Of cholera is copious, frequent and
painless discharge from the bowels of
substance almost as thin as water. with \
whitsh tinge, as if a little milk had been
dropped in it. When this occurs the pa.
ticnt begins to perspirc pro:usely, the slim
assumes leaden hue, aud shrivcls up
the nails become blue, insufferable cramps
come on, and the victims death occurs in
a few hours wiilr the most perfect calm
ness in lew hours with the mott perfect
calmness in tho fullest possession of all the
faculties, and at solute freedom from every
pain.
Three things ought i. to be known in
reference to cholera by every human be.
ing.
First. The writer has never known a
case in which it was not preceded for one,
two, or more days, by tho bowels acting
twice, or 9llener, III every twenty-four
hours, universally styled "thc premopitory
symptoms
Second. A cure is impossible under any
conceivable circumstances without absolute
quletude of body, on n bed, for days to.
sether, the time Of confinement being
shortened in proportion to the prompt
itude with which tho quietude is secured
after the first action of the bowels has
taken place, which gives a feeling of tired
ness, and, on sitting down, a sensation of
rest and satisfaction.
Third. When the patient ceases to urin-
ate he begins to die, and its resumption is
n certain index Of recovering health, and
infallble.
| One OF the usual attendants of ane at.
tack Of cholera is an unconquerabIo ten.
.dency to. vomit. The very instant
anything reaches the stomach, even
if it is but cold water, it is elected, the
n,ildest food meets the same fate in such
cases; much less medicine find lodgment;
except one, and that it is impossible TO
] vomit up if it onco reaches its destination.
Thatmedicine has no taste; it is small in
bulk, will retain its virtues for quarter of
a century, as tho writer knows by personal
experience and repeated observation. Un-
less it is in the very last stage, it is believed
caplc of arresting the disease in nine cases
out of tep-a pill made up Of ten grains
of calomel with little gum water. If the
symptoms do not abate in two hours,
double the dose, and let it work itself of.
Do nothing else, but let the patient be
quiet, and eat all the the be can possibly
want.
At health meeting held in Now York,
DR.. Sayer, Of that city, thus discoursed on
cholera and its treatment.
DR.. sayer thought that that's few com:
mon sense views spread broadcast among
the people might probably be of some ser
vice to allsy the tersor connected with this
plague. Great fear and anxiety had
great deal to do in the propagation and
spread Of the disease, and Influenced the
physical condition to suaA degree as to
make persons more subject TO it than they
would otherwise be. He thought if the
people understood the single fact that cllol.
era is not necessarily a fatal disease, and
that it is always preceded by certain pre-.
monitory symptoms, such as iasaitude,
great laoguor, debility and dirrhea, aud
that in thiastage of the disease it is nearly
always durable if the proper precaution.
ary measures are taken. it would tend to
alIay. the popular terror. A. this stage of
the disease it is of tho firstimportancs to
pay attention to the symptom, which is the
diarrhea. At the very first approach the
patient should assume the horizontal DOS