Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-11-06
Excellent Suggestions.
IAN OUNCE or PREVENTIVE"

The arrival Of steamer at New York
\ It'll several well-deveioped cases oil
Asistic cholera On board, ought to arouse
Ear people to pet forth every exertion to
A revent the spread Of the disease and
Mitigate its virulence. To enable them
- do so we shall, frofa time 10 time,
copy every suggestion that we meet
with in our exchanges that promises 70
contribute in any degree wards secur.
rig the general safety of the people.
On the other hand, every citizen should
make himself q sanitary com mistee-msn,
end every household should be an ex-
ample 10 others. The progress of the
fpidemic Is in our direction, and, though
cis aspect does not seem TO be as fatal
bas when IL slew its thousands among tbs
t.anaticism and 9Th fthe Turkish towns,
we dare not trust to the cholera, the
1niIdness Of which 10 too often like q
snare to tae incsutioua sid imprudent
The New York Eveafng Post, Departing
oil all attempts TO alarm or persuade
1hs authorities Of that large pest.house
into precautionary measures, recon-
rnends the following plan TO the citizens.
Our own people can observe the sugges-
dion with advantage
Cholera has two stages, premonitory
or middle stage, and stage Of collapse,
which is fatal. The premonitory stage
~ ushered in by mild, painless diar.
Fhea, which generally continues for
hours, sometimes for days, before the
stage OF collapse sets 10. In this pre-
monitory stage the disease ia readily
and promptly durable by simple reme-
dieB, combined with rest In the Tecum-
bent position. All that is necessary,
therefore, to prevent q fatal attack OF the
cholera is thatthe patient shall lie down,
keep warm and Quot, and take such
remedies as will relieve tbs diarrhea
A knowledge Of these facts led many
English towns, in former visitations OF
the cholera, to organize body Of visit.
ors, under the direction OF n central
medical board, whose duty il was 10 vis-
IT from house TO house, two, three or
four times daily, and inquire IN every
family for these cases Of diaTrhma
Each visitor carried the proper comedy,
and personally attend to It's adminiatra.
ton aud to the confinement Of the pa.
fient 20 his bed
Tho result Of those organizations was
most happy; in many instances towns
lying In the direct track Of the disease
did not lose single inhAbiiaut By chol.
ora, though thousands Of cases of pain.
leha diarrhna we're treated In other
instances, districts lying 10 large towns
were covered by theee house.to- house
visitors, and not case proved fatal,
though the districts around suffered q
fearful mortality There is now q gem
sral movement ia Engliah towns to-
wards tho formation OF these corps of
visitors to meet the exigences Of the
present visitation of cholera Lord
Brougham, Earl Shaftesbury, and other
prominent statesmen, recommend these
organizations in the strongest terms
Now TO the plan. Let there be organ.
ICED Ia this city, under an advisory medi
Cal board, "a corps of visitors, among
whom the city shall be 30 districted that
each visitor can see the families under
his surveillance two or three times daily.
Let the organization be effected imme-
diataly, and held in readiness to be put
In operation on the frst appearances of
the epidemic, Each visitor should be
provided with the proper remedies, and,
II not medical man, DO instructed in
bis duties In England many Of the
visitors we're ladies.
In this same connection we copy a
letter from DIR. John Chapman to the
London Times, in which he gives an in
teresting account Of the successful re-
suit of bic treatment of cholera patients
at Southampton, by the application Of
ice-bags to tho spine. Hs states the
points Of his theory as follows;
That the nausea, vomiting, copioua
discharge Of the we'll known "rice
water etools, cold sweat and peculiar
odor from the body, are due TO the com
bined action Of the hypeE@mio spinal
cord and sympathetic nervous centers,
In the same manner as they induce phe.
nomena of the like kind, though less In
degree, in cases of summer diarrh@a,
and of sea-sickness when il Ia accom-
panied with diarrhma.
That cholera 10 neither contagious
nor infectious in any sense whatever,
except through the depressing influence
OF fear.
That cholers may be completely avert
cd, and, when developed, cured by modi-
flying the temperature OF the spinal
region.
After detailing the symptoms of two
cases Of cholera which fell under his
observation, DR.. Chapman offers the fol-
lowing suggestions for the use of the
ice@oag:
|. The cold mus' no applied along
only narrow p-- uos iuole than four
inches broad in the adult-down the
very centre of the back.
z The cold must BIO dry, not wet cold
). The ice bag should be continued
along the whole spine only until the
cramps and algide symptoms have been
subdued.
4. The ice bag should be continued to
be applied to the lower half of the spine
until the vomiting and purging cease.
D. The patient should be assiduously
watched, to guard, in the stage of reac-a
~aS@1 ~6~AM"">NVA1ahaA putiNunAEy CON
gestions, the development of which will
DO facilitated by continuing the ice too
long in the crevical and dorsal regions.
D. If such confessions should occur,
they will be noted BY heaviness, incohe.
renee, wandering, aud by laborious
breathing, and may be subdued by APP
plying the double-columned water bag.
at temperature OF one hundred and
TWO degrees, along the lower part of the
neck and between the seapula
Z. If it DO necessary to induce sleep,
this may be done by the same bag APP
piled in the same way.
er r. K. Dunkerson left by rail yes.
lerday morning for Louisville and New
Albany, to meet Col. PendIeton, the
Railroad King aud chief of the Belle
tontaine Cotton Express We had hoped
10 meet Col Pendleton in this city about
this time, and take a." pinch of Macca-