The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-15
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how 10 AVOID IT AND How To TREAT 1T IN THf
ABSENCE OF CjMPETENT PRYSIc1AN.-f}y THos
SIM, M. D., and Lic-utiate OF the College o
Fhysicians and HurgeDns, Glasgow; Specia
Health Officer Department. or South Carolina
and Georgia, ctc.--" Etpeaitntiu ct Progressus.'
The above pamphlet. just issuod from the press
OF Messrs. MAooY, HeRwIo i VIDAL, Of this city,
Is being distributed with official approval from the
Office Of the Medical Director of this Military De-
partment,1 for the benefit OF tho people Of this
City and State. We may be considered still
Under partial military rule, and the advice con-
taned in the pamphlet is from the highest medical
authority at Military Headquarters, in regard to
the most terrible disease that aflcts humanity.
The object of the publication i'd the welfare of the
people. We accept the good intentions OF the
powers that be- and feel grateful az people for
the watchful caro- extended i'll Il time of th eatcned
trouble. But on u matter in which their health
and life are at stake tho people can, with propr-
ETY., be critical and form their opinions of the
advice prof;ered. And as a medical man, with
the interests of the people with whom We live at
heart, and with some experience Of the disease in
question: we feel that have the right, nay, that
1t ID our duty to examine tho character Of these
instructions, given to divert or to mitigate the
ravages of q coming pestilence.
The source from which advice or opinions ema-
nate carries great weight. The views laid down
in the pamphlet under consideration will be readi
ly taken up and implicitly reliod upon by a larg
portion OF the community. Although the author
aflrms that the advice given is not to supersede
the views OF respectable phy sicians, and although
he urges that medical advice should be sought on
the very first appearance of premonitory symp-
toms OF tho disease, tho weight of his authority
will induce feeling of security in his practice,
and numbers will readily swallow his prescriptions
with full confidence in their efficacy. The result
will be that not only thoee out of reach of medical
advice but many, with good physicians around
them, will be ulled into security by the presence
OF a bottle containing DR.. rSIM's Mixture No. or
No. q in their closet. Truth is not always to be
found in high places. Without intentional dis
paragement Of the medical authorities concerned
we desire the community to reflect little before
applying to the druggist for the quart Of Mixture
No. !, the dark glass bottle with Mixture No. 2,
or the powders Of thirty grains each, put up in
tin-fon.
Directions to protect the public from 30 terrible
disease, should be prepared with care; particu-
lary when coming from those whose high posi-
tion constitutes them custodiaus of the public
welfare. To our surprise, in the second para
graph Of the book, we meet with striking evidence
OF anything else but perspicui:y of style or gram
hhheiShi aSSuitSy vi eApIeeSlOn 1nlS VIC WOulu
charitably impute to carelessness on the part of
the writer. We give the sentence in full by way
of illustration
This publication seems to be necessary at this
time, for thu disease is already invading our
shores, and also from the fact that experience has
certainly taught U.s. that if the people Of any To-
callty are prepared for it's approach, it may not
even come, or ii it does it may be stripped OF more
than half it's horrors, aud may be avoided almost
as easily, or even treated as successfully, any
ordinary disease.
Writing like this is met with again and again in
the book; but we read on, determined not to con-
denim it on this account, provided the substance
matter-the practical points of the treatise
prove worthy Of consideration.
The authors endeavor is to give ga short de-
scription Of the disease, and few simple direo-
tions for its avoidance and treatment" We can
pass over the hygienic rules insisted upon, as
with these every one is familiar. Nor need the
account Of the symptoms Of the disease detain u.s.
These are described with sufficient accuracy and
detail for practical purposes though occasionally
we notice carelessness of expression. The term
"suspension" Of urine is used to indicate suppress
sion Of the secretion. We pass on to the treat:
ment ftj
The general principles laid down are upon the
whole, satisfactory enough, in article intended
for the public. But We unhesitatingly condemn
the selection OF the chief means employed in car
rying out the principles. The formula sre un-
scientific and empirical One Of these is neither
more nor less than "chlorodyn," q dangerous
empirical nostrum introduced into England, and
made celebrated by having occasioned tho death
OF one or two individuals soon after it came into
use. (See U. 8. d. Prescriptions for the people
should be simple and unoomplicated they should,
as far as possible, be incapable Of doing harm.
The scientific physician, in treating cholera will
resort to simple formula. The great misfortune
ls that the disease has to be attacked through the
stomach. But, as the drugs are to be put into
that organ, 1t Is advisable to select out OF GER
tain class OF remedies those which are least ofen-
sive to it, and which can be given in small guam
titles.
The following are the formula recommended
by the author OF the pamphlet
MiIture No 1.-"For Cholera DiarrhGa."
f. Pulv Aroulat., half all ounce; Tnct. Kino,
6uld ounce; rinct. Onii, one fluid drachm; Mist.
Cre,a Prep, twenty fluid ounces. Misce bene.
hasdure No. 2-"Cblorod, ne Cholera Mixture -
70. Ilnct. Canabis Indca, two fluid drachms;
SShi9r9lorm four huth draebnis; Theriaoa, two
nuih trachms; Muci Avcacia two fluid drachms;
m3rph Murl"t., i've grains; Acid Hydrocyanio
Dl III ttwo per ceht}, two finin drachms; Oh. Menth.
Pip Blk uropss Assce bsne.
Ihe former is for the initiatory or "bilious'
oiarrhtca, tho latter for the rice.water dacharg-
o." cramps; &c, or the true oholeraic stage.
An emetic OF salt and water, or mustard, ia re-
commended In the stage Of lassitude, want of ap-
petite, etc, which often precedts the disease. We
snnk this Judicous. An emetic will here do good
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