Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-09-14
Cholera and ITS treatment.

great force in Egypt, Turkey, Malta,
and in the South of Spain and France,
The latest accounts from the old
world, however, state the disease to
be disappearing in Constantinople,
Gibraltar, Barcelona and ValleVal.
1t has made its appearance at Mar
settles, producing panic which bad
extended as far as the English cities,
and another account states that the
disease has appeared in London
The insidious approach Of this cpl
demicaI visitant, seems to mock at
all preventive measures Of the guar
antine board or health police, and
slsipz, hops and jumps along over
seas and countries, dotting certain
islands and places with its imprints
Of "Black DEATH" and strangely
leaving intact other spots and regions
along the immediate lines Of its trav-
ersings. Sanitary regulations may
and do serve to stay its ravages, but
frequently not before i has reaped
its hecatombs Of victims. In London,
Paris, Vienna and other cities in Eu-
rope, and in some Of our cities, also,
during its terrible campaigns in 1882
and later years, it was known, III
various instances, to confine its raw
ages principally to the single side of
street, whereas ON the opposite side
the inhabitants would enjoy compare
tive immunity from its attacks.
After it had ceased as a general
epidemic in the United States, it
appeared to linger as a fixture in GER
tain localities, as for instance, in the
Red River country where it assumed
the character of an ordinary endemic;
and for many years it existed in a
sporadic form, in different other sec
tions of the country. Limestone re-
gions, particularly, suffered more in
tensely than any others. from chol-
eraic diseases, during the epidemical
periods. Medical writers and practi-
TONERS attributed the cause TO the
| water of those peculiar localities---a
| theory which was borne ont by prac-
teal observation Wherever lime
stone water was In common nee for
| drinking purposes, it seemed to create
superinducing tendency to the dis
ease, while on the other hand, where
the water drank was Of freestone
| nature, the disease rarely. if ever,
prevailed.
We believe it is laid down us an
almost infallible principle by medical
authorities, that cholera in its first
stage can always be successfully
treated, unless the system is weak
ened by other diseases, by dissipa-
ton, or some other special cause.
The remedies proposed and tried, in
the incipient and more aggravated
stages Of the malady, have been as
numerous as the localities in which
it has prevailed, the theories which
are entertained respecting its nature
| and treatment, or the practitioners
| who have attempted its cure. For
tunes have been realized by nostrum
vendors, whose preparations are en-
gerly caught at by credulous and
psnic-stricken people at times when
the "pestilence that walketh at noon
| day" is stalking over the world in
| its acknowledged boots" moving
down all whom il seeks to devour
with remorseless violence. A few Of
these preparations were used with
| good effect, and were considered. by
numbers Of the faculty themselves,
as worthy Of Legitimate rank in the
list of specifics.
The Constantinople correspondent
of the New York Tribune indicates
the following formula as the most
successful for the treatment of cholera
which has been tried in that city;
l Tha Pav DR. Hamiiuta Cholarn Miytura