New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-01-27


dseed. ,,.,l
Now then Is the time TO brin al your forces INTO
-, .,d .nese. them sIl together. with intrepdisy
and AaH. Begin by giving large enema-"om |nree
>, Con, n,nts NJ ma hot yster az the hand can bear
i,h ,i. ouuoes of brandy and two drsehms OF auda-
,nm Al the expiration Of IN hour, withdraw this
anams NV tnbe introduced into the restum-it will
com. of unite cold--and immediately throw In
aritkon he Ias6ansa and brandy At the same
time administer by the mouth. every half hour the
equal parts OF laudanum and oamphor. teaspoonfnl In
half an ounce of brandy, already prescribed One hour
after the last injection Of hot pa alone repeat itthis
tIme adding the brandy and lauddnum-and 30 GU BY
alternate hours. Between the doses Of laudanum and
camphor give five grains Of QUMISE, In any mode OF
administration least dsagreeabe the patient; II 1t
be Immediately rejected. Immediately repeat It, II the
means Of injection ore not at hand double the doses OF
oamphor and laudanum, until some simple apparatus
can be procured though is reasonable to expect that
in time Of Cholera every family not absolutely destitute
will be provided with one and that physician will
20 abroad without it, 1t should also be IN the power OF
every police officer to furnish at The shortest notice
Still though o great advantage and the best OF oil
possible modes for applying heat. the enema is not i'm
peralively indispensable. the patients life does not
depend upon it, and fyou cannot inject you may make
purpose, especially if you have your great gun. The
Quiaiae engaged. If be rejects the landanum and
camphor give him q grain ard half Of dry opium
every hour until he to vomit.
All this while it is to be presumed that you have been
pursuing your external treatment with redoubled
assiauy and case that your bricks your bottles Of
water your bags Of ashes bran sand are in their
places and kept hot worsted stockings filed with hot
sand constituting simple and effective appliances that
you are keeping your patient in strictly horizontal
position and in as complete Iepose as may be practical
ble that you have hs chest and clad in thick fan.
mel and his abdomen and thighs and legs covered with
pisms ard that you applying cloths wTung in
very hot water to his feet that you are vigorously
rubbing him with dry warm Aannels wherever and
whenever you can get at his legs or arms or trunk
that you cause his bed. covering and his warming sp
pianccs be carefully replaced as often as in his rest
ess tossing agony. he may throw them Off, and that
you have made your assistants sensible oil the import
ance of avoiding all unnecessary disturbance of the
patient and of combining him to the horizontal position
until the heart shall have recovered its action by re-
minding them that an erect even half erect position
during the collapse has been often observed to pro-
duce instant death; indeed any muscular movement
more or less dangerous For this reason alone the
Of the warm bath, once In decided favor, Is to be
positively condemned In its time 1t probably killed
five for every one 1t saved bathsof all kinds are
painful and dangerous
The patient ougbt never to be left. Tor moment
without an attendant firm enough to guard and contro
him. and sufficiently well instructed to be capable o.
acting according to circumstances and taking advsnt
age of every change. The application OF eyaporatin9
LIQUIDS or indeed of any moisture general surface
Atx han
frictons with dry warmfsnnel powdered with mustard
can DO maintained by four persons rubbing all at once
the whole surface Of the body the advantage Is great
Mustard plasters should DO applied to the spne' when
that can be done without disturbing the patient toe
much and the vomiting Is often alsyed by linen cloths
dipped in hot water and laid the pit OF the stomach
When the cramps are eIcrucating in the muscles Of
the arms and legs the roller bandage, firmly applied
viii often afford decided relief the patient commonly
cries out for extension and pressure song pressure
there For that nappessabe fend Of thirst the suffered
may SUCK OF swallow WHOLE small Jumps OF ice. the siss
of hickory mutt no drink win afford him such grateful
relief, II You are compelled to give him cold water II
should be coored with brandy, and slightly calculated
and he should be allowed to Spit only.
And now, II you must be afraid, be afraid OF the Col
lapse, and not Of your remedies.
Not Of the standardization II you have understood
what we have oonscientiousy and particularly en-
deavored to demonstrate 10 the true nature OF the
disease and the pathological procession Of the phenom
ena any defense Of the simulant treatment is
sary, and If you have not understood that such de
Tense were useless.
Not Of the opium-for the vomiting the purging. tht
cramps-orgnsly honest efforts Of nature to relieve
the engagement and congestion and restore the
tons by giving new impulse to the circulation and
new energy TO the insensble Extraordinarily
ing failed Of their intention. have become simply
exhausting, and must be stopped. And who needs or
argument to prove that that may best be done by
astrfneent an antispasmodic anodyne, stimulant
all In one Only. gice enough. When the Cholera frs
appeared In Russia the French Government sent ar
agent to ST. Petersburgh TO investigate the nature o
the disease; and be wrote; "The brilliant success
mentioned by English physicians has been Of very
occurrence and due only to the very large doses whcl
they have had the courage, rather the temery, b
administer" Remember. that collapse almost neve
comes on till after profuse discharges from tn
!. bowels.
Not OF the Qulnine-for Of all the medicinal agent
whose aid fair science has invoked for the relief OF col
lspsed and congested, stsgnaDt and dredup humanity
there 10 not one more direct more consistent. NOR
clear in Its great Office Of distributing and equszn
the circulation and leading the vital current back from
its bursting dams to Its remote deserted channels thai
this simple faithful noble tonic Moreover you have
In the asphyxia Of Cholera true tonometsr. Watcl
those puckered banohed. and withered fingers, and p
your quinine without fear for so long as they remsi
withered blanched and puckored you may be sure hs
the peculiar virtue Of the drug fails before the parayz
ing potency Of the poison with the inernoss Of brea
pills. but they begin to plump out rosiy wit
the returning genial heat
IL In. hi..A.ll