The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1865-07-08
Health Ktems.-Di "a

This word means, literally, a running
through aud as applied TO the hCman body,
in connection with diseased condition, MS
eXpressIveness is easily seen. hatever Il
person eats or drinks seems to pass through
the system very soon, and with comparative
ly little change.
Simple dia Frhoea Is the passing from: the
bowels "f a VI at.rs, hghtish-colored Substance,
i'll considerable quantities, at several times
during the i&v, sometimes wfth pain always
leaving a sense o' weakness, which makes
sitting still delicious ness, as il it would be
. happiness ~ Know that there would De no
occasion to get uF again.
Ii blood is passed instead Of thin, light
colOred liquid it Is then dysent.ry, or " bloody
hux," accompanied with a frequent desire to
s,ool. without being able 10 pass Anything,
with a sensaiou SO distressing that the Latins
called IT Tor laina, literally pergneut.H II,
on the orher Hand, the discharges rt freqnett,
imperative and in immense quantities, ,his
IS water almost, AMI Of hrhtIsh cs.or,
wiihol, any pain whatever that is genuine
cholera-Asiatic cholera Il - quite su!hci-
eni for ali common, practical purposes, to
say that diarrhoea, dyseniery and Asiatc
cholera are one and the same disease, differ
ing only in Intensity. Uiarrhcna is watery
/ lcoseutss dysentery is bloody loo.eness /;
cholera is an immense watery lcoseness.
In diarrhcea, there Is not much pain, ne
cessarllv. IN d7s-n'erv, there Is great deal
Of pain Inevitably. in cholera there is never
unv at al A. TO the bowels. In d.arrbpa dis
charges AWAY succeed inclination. In dvs-
enterv, there ) most distressing inclination.
with 10 satisfactory, no relieving discharge.
Ia cholera. desire g followed by immense
and relieving discharges. In all hese there
is one never failing circumstance always and
invariably present, aud never can be absent,
under auy circumstances--ltIS Is the qucuchless
instinct of nature calling for absolute rest,
bodily quiett,de, and without tha; rest a cure
is always im possible, aad death an inesitable
event.
There is III ali these II remorseless thirst.
Nature ther: calls fur two things to salts y
her lodgings for rest and drink, and if these
two thing are done with sufficient promptness,
there is a perfect cure in nine cases out OF
ten Perfect qaietude on bed, and chewing
ice. swallowing as large pieces as posSitl-
until the thirst IS perfectly satisfied, is al!
that is necessary in any ordinary a,tat K rt
these three diseases. 10 make assurance
douby sure, kept the abdomen nightly bound
around with tuo thickneSses Of wooleE tau-
mel, eating nothing but boiled rice, with boil
ed milk in ordinary cases; If more violent
let the rice be parched black as coffee usual.
" is. then Toll and eat il; or what is still
more efficient, pu, pound or two of -four in
linen bag, boil 1t tvu hours in milk. take Oft
the skin, dry it. grate ii into bold mix, and
cot it freely, aud nothing else, until the dis
ease is checked If these bowel complaints
are checked TOO promptly with laudanum
parecor,c or opium, fatal commissions take
place in few hours, as to children, and in
curable congestion or .inhan matiou Of the
brain in growing persons. As bowel diseas-
cas- are the scourge of all armies in the fall
of the year. these suggestions should be
widely ycirculated.-HaiCs Journal Of Heaith.