The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-08-24
Directions for the Prevention
aud Domestic TreRtment OF
Cholera TIA the Absence Of the
PhysiCian,


all filth or foul air For this purpose, after
removing all rubbish and whitewashing
freely. dissolve copperas (sulphate of iron)
one pound to one gallon of water and
sprinkle it in your cellars and back yards,
and place it in shallow vessels wherever
the air is not fresh aud pure, and in your
bed Chambers when sick. Repeat this
frequently.
Make no great changes in your ordinary
habits Except they are bad ventilate your
bed rooms thoroughly, exposing them to
all the sunlight you can get. Lie IL prac
ticable with the head north, feet south. III
the weather is very warm, aud you per-
spire through tho day, in tho evening sponge
of the body with pleasantly cool water,
washing only one limb before drying It
and then washing another part, drying il,
and so going over tho whole body. II
there is the slightest tendency to chilliness
in, or aftor bathing, rub the skin alter dry.
ing, lightly aud briskly, with wooden or
silk cloth. In this way the fesblest can
bathe without injury, an with great benefit.
Take tho sponge both, as above directed,
twice week, with salt water. Ii the
weather is COOL aud there is an inclination
to ohilliuess, instead of bathing. rub the
skin morning and evening, hghHy and
briskly. with wooden or silk cloth, Dress
and sleep so as to keep the skin comfort.
ably warm.
| Avoid excesses of all kinds, or over IA
| tigue of body or mind. Old Richards max
i'm might be modified: Early to bed and
early to rise makes man healthy, aud the
cholera flies" let your diet be such as
agrees with you, nutritious aud simple
roasted aud broiled meats boiled fresh fish
and nicely cured ham, chickens not too
young, fresh eggs milk, potatoes, tomatoes,
clntelopes, nutmegs, baked apples aud p'a II
bread pudding Avoid pastries and crude
vegetables. Backberries, use whom these
is no arrangement Of the bowels, but when
there is, do not swallow tho seed But
above all, be moderate in the use of your
food, chewing it thoroughly and never over
load the stomach or take much variety Mt
the same meal The variety should b5
different meals. Do not eat hearty meal
when you are much fatigued. When eating
Edismiss all IDEAS Of choora, and eat cheer
fully giving God thanks.
Let your suppers be very light, and eat
nothing after supper save u cracker or two
After eating, cleanse the teeth inside and
out, using n moderately stiff brush, with
water aud CASTLE soap.
| When you are well, take no medicine, but
observe the above rules to keep WELL
But il you are much exposed to cholera
atmosphere, take dose Of cuprum ani the
secoal day after take dose of veratrum
aud SO alternately every second day. But if
you feel any depressing effects at the time
of exposure, take dose of camphor.
COstiveness of the bowels should not be
permitted to continue, but take no physic
TO rom I'VE it except single dose of the Ho
meopathic preparation of Nnx. with a glass
of water upon retiring to bel. II not suili
cient, use an enema Of cold water tho next
day and repeat the NIX at hedtims.
II there is any looseness Of the bowels,
attead % it. Don't think it a trilling mt.
ter. 1t it is painless, 30 mnch the m ire i'm
portant. 1t is the CON .ncsm INT of chOl-
era First and foremost lie down aud take
your meIiciue, covor up 30 as to bs com
fortaby warm, AMI continue to lie down
until well. In severe attacks, cover up
closely around The chin, and keep covered mp
till free perspiration has been induced, and
continued for eight or ten hours. This is
the only sdfe course. OBEY aud you are
SAFE. Disobey, aud your life may be the
penalty of your diso6adience. Don't go to
tie loot closet, but use chamber vessel
and while using it have something thrown
around you, so that you may not get chilled.
| w ueu Tue CISo 10 Otllt -bnt pdllcub SnOHl l
not get up to use the Chamber, but should
use the bed.pan. Remember this. Just
before the patient uses it, pour half pIht
OF the cOpperas water into the vessel alter
ward, cover it NJ and remove quickly from
the room. If their excavations arc nvol-
untary, and cloths are used (their use should
always he avoided fpossible), remove them
frequently, aud burn them or wash them in
the uopperas water.
If there is faintness, or sickness, or bur-
| ning of the stomach, with or without diar.
rh@l, use IN. l J camphor. prefer the
| pellets, medicated with the saturated tinct-
nre, for general use. They are much better
where there is nausea, and not as likely to
be followed by headache. The saturated
tincture can be dropped, one or two drops.
on sugar, and given in that way IN very
violent attacks where it is retained upon
the stomach, or the common tncture of
camphor may be used when that only is at
hand. The dose should be repeated at inter.
walls of from three to twenty minutes in bad
cases. ln slight cases, in one to two
hours. .t'
If there is a good deal of rumbling in the
bowels with diarrhes, alternate veratrum
mo. 81 with the camphor. Ii there is diar
rhea without pain on faintness, or if the
diarrhea comes with rush, or the evacua-
tions are sometimes involuntary, or accom-.
panied with cramps in the cIlves of the leg,
use No p Secale Cor. and if net better in
two hours, or if the diarrhea is violent at
first alternate with (No. - voratrum. tl
For cramping of the breast, or where
other remedies have not relieved the cramps
use (No. Al cuprum. which may be given in
alienation with any of the other medi-
cncs. 400
If taken very suddenly with great pros
tratioA or Se0ere UOmitiag, with or without
diarrhea, aud few doses of camphor does
not relieve, give arsenicum (No. 81
In very bad cases this may he alternated
a ivantaSeonsly with (No. y Neratum Alh.
A good rule for repeating the medicines is
to take a dose after each vomiting and
p rgihg unit deci ledly better, tlIou double
the Intervals.
Take eight or ten pellets at dose, or
dissolve thirty in a tumLler (mediun siz)
one-third full OF water, and give N aud a
half teaspoonsful at "a dose.
If however, the patient ID in the stage of
CO lapse, snhken, cadaveroGs cOuntenance,
with cold, bI0ish, shriveled skin, no pulse
or scarcely perceptible pulse, and the cam
phor has not been used, give champion
freely, and surround him with bottles OF
hot watcr to get up reaction. Bat if there
is no improvement of the pulse aud aspect
Of tho cOuutenance in two hours, or if tho
patient has been treated with camphur from
the first, give Carlo Vegetables Both in
alienation whith ArseDicum once Ia half
an hour, aud wait patiently for an improve.
Inent i'm the pulse Do not then aItemuf