White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-07-13
asfflll ana Curious.
Dysentery.

Dysentery is literally "difficulty among the
intestines; it is discharge Of blood from the
bowels accompanied with what has been aptly
called "an atrocious pain" You feel as if
you would be relieved by an evacuation, but
when tile attempt is made, there is fruitiess
straining, termed tenesmus, and nothing comes
of it, unless it be blood. The rectum, or last
loot of the lower bowel, is the main seat Of
dysentery, which is commonly called "bloody
hux." 1t should always be considered dan-
gerous disease. At first .he discharges are
odorless but as the parts come more under
the influence of the disease, they become dis
organized, rotten, and insuferably offensive.
Dysentery most abounds in hot, dry weather,
and is oftenest caused BY bad air, q sudden
check Of perspiration, or by whatever makes
the skin Of the body cold. In fact, dyentery
may be considered an exaggerated or aggra.
waited diarrhea--the latter is water, the former,
blood. The great distinguished features Of
dysentery are bloody passages, with frequent,
fruit!ess, and painful effort to stool. 1t is one
Of those diseases which are very apt to 60 on
to fatal termination, if let alone; Il disease
which is often made more speedily fatal by be-
ing igIorantly tempered with /; and whether
blood is passed from the bladder or the bowels,
a skillful physician should be called in as
promptly ss possible, as promptly, indeed, as if
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 nothing but boiled rice,
or -four porridge, and swallow bits of ice to the
complete quenching 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 darrhea and dyentery, is the
use of raw meat: thus, take fresh beef, free
from fat, scrape it into pulp with knife,
season it with salt to make il more palatable,
or with sugar for children, to whom begin with
one teaspoonful three times a day, gradually
increasing the amount as they become fond of
it. Adults may use it by placing 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-
TEN. 1t is well known that children having
the Summer. complaint will ravenously eat or
rather chew or grind between their gums, q
piece of the rind of bacon or ham, to which is
attached half an inch of fat, and begin to i'm
prove in a 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
remedy in these ailments. Or, for dysentery
or protracted diarrhea, take half a teacup of
vinegar, with as much salt as it will take up,
leaving little excess of salt at the bottom;
add boiling water till the cup is two. thirds full
remove the scum, let it cool. and take one tea
spoonful three times day till relieved. 1t
has not failed of cure in many hundred trials
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