New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-01-25

les. But In childhood, youth and the vgor efin
veIinstructed sagseious, coarsgeous and pessvenne
use of remedies win often be rewarded with eoppese
success
A thread Of pulse, however small Il almost Away
felt at tho wrist where recovery from the blne o.
cold stage 10 10 DO expected In such less formidspis
cases 1t never wholly sxtinguished thossh much re
duced In volume; the respiration, too IL less smpsf
assed and the oppression and anguish ct the chest ar
not 90 overwhelming although vomiting. pursing sno
cramps may have been more intense. Just where tn'
favorable turn taken In the first feeble efforts a. 10
action the return Of circulation Is often curoua an
pounced BY hiccongh. Then the surface begins "
grow warm the pulse reappean at the wrist ana In
In strength and volume and the natural nue
the skin 10 restored Next the vomiting and purgins
cease rapidly dminish-(n certain cases OF recoV
cry from extreme collapse they even rss,s for time
ser having quito cramps are RELAXED
focal matter rsappears In the stools, bile urine AND
saliva are once more secreted and discharged 'ne
voice becomes stronger and more nstural-the raekeo
and broken wretch signs. wssps, and lives.
PALLAcIoUs RECOVERY.
When the vital forces have begun to rally the pny'
stefan cannot be too viglant, he must watch nature
wariy suspicousy TO prevent recurrence OF collapse
the hand to repel congestons OF the head snd
vi,ccra the other Where the strength OF the pa
TENTS constitution or the curative means employed
although inadequate wholly to subdue tho disease
sufficient to resist the violence Of its onset nature
makes various efforts to rally and holds out strong out
fallacious promises Of returning health. Or when the
restorative efforts opposed BY previous organic
disease general eebleness Of constitution or the worn
ont energies Of age must not calculate too oond
IDENTITY any imperfect reaction that may be induced
In ell such cases. the lost heat may be wholly or par
tally restored; only partially. the chest and abdo'
men will become warm while the limbs remain deadly
cold-a most evil omen the pulse may return, growing
moderate and full the vomiting and cramps may ceases
the stools may become green ptch and even feculent
there may be partial restoration Of the natural ex'
cretions-and yet the patient will suddenly relapse and
sink mot from violent reaction the Developments OF
any local Inflammation but from want Of energy IN the
vital powers to carry forward the attempts at restora
ton which seemed so happily begun" The sufferer
may have fallen into faitering slumberi but now
anxiety and sleepessness will return, and oil the alarm
ing symptoms be regs,ablishcd These ienes fatu OF
rellying sometimes flicker for two three days, and
all that time life and death win be poised in sensitive
balance In some Of the most rapidly fatal cases
warmth has partially returned to the surface and the
pulse has futtered and fattered Immediately before
death. Be 1t remembered that the real danger 10 by
means in proportion to the quantity OF matter dis
charged from the stomach and bowes In some Of the
most trying this 10 not very considerable, and In
Of the most successful 1t has been very great
Neither is cramp or spasm sure criterion. The great
danger arises from suspended imperfect circulation
Restore and eQualize this and you have "cured the
Cholera"
ApPEARAScIs ON DISSECTION.
The appearances disclosed on p0's-mortem inspections
u the bodies OF those who have died OF Choers vary
according to the duration and intensity OF the attack
The age, constitution and previous health OF the sub
ect" and the remedies administered bnt enough OF
is found In the reports Of the most instructed
and careful observersespeciay to the points most
significant and Of the first pathological Importance
serve the purpose Of description addressed to the
multitude through the columns Of Q
miscellaneous journal. Enough too we think TO anord
in accurate definition Of the disease. In place q ips
yderng guess work Of the textbooks. In the Ian
ruaes Of the M.Si~o- rBirnySicaI Reri<a 1.-THE man
who would treat disease successfully must not consider
his only aim and object to be the knowledge OF the
rarous morbid changes which take place In the struct
are Of the different organs. and Of the symptoms BY
which they are Distinguished his researches must DO
directed beyond ths.to the laws Of vital actions to
the manner in weh they are disordered and to these
agents capable Of restoring them 10 their healthy state
The bodies Of those who have sunk IN the carrier
stages Of Cholera exhibit hardly any unhealthy appear
auce the stomach and intestnes arc apt to be paer
and more dstended with air than usual, and some ex
porers have discovered. fancifuly perhaps, cnar'
acteristic feter" from the abdominal cavity bus In
the more protracted cases. greater or less degree OF
injection Of the mucous membrane. with occasional
secAymosis, 10 the most frequent appearance. mas
also been observed in where the violence OF tns
spssms proved the most prominent symptom that the
mucous membrane presented that appearance wnion
approaches nearest to inham The large intes
tines arc sometimes filed with whtsh and haky'tur
pid fluid, sometimes with greenish. yellow, or tarTy
matter-in other words with the characteristic ois'
charges or with vitated bile. just e. the patient may
to have died In the earlier or later PERIODS Oh
the attack 10 collapse in the struggle for reaction
Tn like manner the stomach contains either the inesta
in an unaered state or the same "vcasouplke' stun
that the patient has been vomtingi or Its contents
may be green or dark. Sc. likewise a. 10 the
appearances presented BY the alimentsfy Canal inc
varieties seem 10 correspond. with Instructive
ty to the Duration the ss and the intensity Of the
attack. The mucous membrane Is generally somswnM
soened sometimes Of On unnatural paleness through
out "but oftener having various portions tnIeo o'
various hues" from the pale to the dark orickda
and slate colors az venous or aterisl injection pro
dominates patches of sceAyaoss and arborzanons Oh
the larger branches are equent but the most common
appearances have been red or purplsh specEhsg OF
the mucous membrane. generally over the whole safsee
but more apparent In some parts than In others some
times these different appearances are scattered
out the entire extent Of the aimsntasy oana " otnef
times the stomach alone IL colored and the in'esnes
pale or the stomach pale and different portions o. Tue