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

phor musk castor aromatic and stnuiating tinotases
essential oils Of peppermint Glove and cinnamon. ca.
tracts Of hyoscyamus and clcuts, prussc sod. sub
nitrate Of bisnuth, colchcum. einchona ssrpeataris
and capsicum oil Of yitroi spirits turpentine and Sor
all we know petroleum; brandy injections soap injeo.
tons tobacco inectisns warm drinks and loo wsssr
tepid baths cold BATS hot baths. vapor baths hos
sand, friction with irritating rubefacents, biissers
scsding water mineral seid red hot irons cold water
pumped on the spine and the pit Of the ssomaoas
bleeding cupPing leeching oxygNn gas Laughing gas
injections Of saline solutions into the veins gavansn
electricity ohoroform elairvoyapce, hasheesh inhaisr
ton Perrys paln-killer Railways Ready Relief Mrs.
winslow's Soothing Syrup Phalon's Night-bloomine
Cereus Constitution Life Syrup, and Mrs. Aliens Hair
RestOrer. rl
For heterogeneousness and promiscuousness. and
elaborate and complicated stupidity and nastiness.
we know Of nothing in the whole range Of En-
glish literature with which to compare the run mad
list unless 1t DO Nj Timothy Tiekler's descrip-
ton of the spots on q steamboat table CLOTH in the
Noctes Asbrosisne Enough that it represents every
degree Of segacity aud energy" from the most t,mid
imbecity to the most self suficent reoklessnes, iron
leaying the disease to Nature" to murder with az.
craving circumstances and that it stands for the prac
tce Of all the gentlemen who have got themselves noc'
plated with other gentlemens theories, who have
ripped with this Eurpides Of Yenesection or socked
with that Socrates OF vesication. Even II this we're
the place and the time and space were ours TO explore
and discuss the bsvdering budget ofnoons the labor
in vain. Our readers win thank Us for proceeding
at to demonstration Of the method OF treat.
ment at which we long ago arrived. BY way OF the
pathological conclusions already plainly stated ana oy
which sighiyfrs on, Of sv~y hundred efhs eoiIspsed
cases. and all Of the prsmonitOry case recovered In
the Bay of Bengal in 1862.
But FIRST In this connection II but fair that We
should call attention to fact which has been every.
where observed and which may serve TO explain the
honor in which certain remedies have been held 10 GER
tain localities and seasons only to fall into contempt al
other times and places. The causes that produce
Cholera always most violent at rsti and after an
early climax OF fury the disease 10 observed to become
more mild and manageable. Remedies then appear 70
have more control over it, and the hope Is entertained
that the method of treatment adopted has essened She
mortality and triumphed the scourgei but all such
hopes are almost sure to be blasted on recurrence d
the invasion or on trial of the remedies In other
places at the commencement Of the attack Dr. Lefevrs
physician TO the British Embassy ct ST. Petersburgh
and who enjoyed the ampest opportunities of observing
the disease and asceranng the most successful modes
of treatment remarks Z" The Epidemic Cholera, on is
first invasion battles all attempts to CONQUER 1T but
gradually loses its intensity and toward Its decline.
becomes as ractable other diseases Of the amentsy
canal" And Dr. David b. White one Of the physicsns
to the Gateshead Dispensary and Cholera Hospital
saws when Cholera first RACES its inveteracy
greater than any subsequent period. ana remedee
which utterly fail In the first instance acquire renowh
and celebrity when Nature herself Is ct work to as''
them"
4ba nj 0f IN
eoually true of the stage of the thus calomel be-
fore reaction has been pronounced all vanity aud
foolishness; and bleeding. after reaction has seemed
all wisdom and virtue Mr.. William Scot, In an old
Report to the Madras Medical Board, on the reatmen
of Cholera in the Presidency Of Fort St. George says
1.-THE suppression Of the exeretion OF bile being only
link In the common chain Of symptoms, and the partial
or occasional removal Of that excreton. or even s
total absence having been proved to be OF little conss
ousnce in the general Of the disease to attempt
70 excite Ii by particular means, may be considered az
premature and injudicious. Whenever favorab'e
change takes place. indicated by renewal OF the ordi
nary functions then the exhibition OF the appropriate
stimulus (calomeD seems be clearly indicated, and
NOT tiHAsn." And DR.. Kinnis in account Of tie
treatment at Port Louis Mauritius 10 1890 anticipates
the Intelligent objections Ito blood-ettng) OF many
later observers in the following words 1.-THE impress
sion produced on me s that when only few ounces a
blood can be obtained their abstraction acceerates tho
fatal event; and when bleeding can be carried TO
syucope the disease is durable without it." In othcr
words 1t is folly 10 bleed with the object Of restoring
the circulation" since II you draw blood II 10 BE-
cause the circulation is already partially completely
restored and II there Is not circulation already. you
can not draw blood, and your cutting and squeezing
only weaken more and the halfdead patient and
thwart and cripple nature
The fact is nature Is trying to do her own bleeding
in her own way and doing 1t in excessby the profnsa
excavations, we mean. In the language OF Dr. XIX.
"when was proposed, TIL the present day. to relieve
condition OF the EXTREMIST depression. and Of no are
rial excitement BY the abstraction Of the principa
vital fuidi Jwill the removal Of small column Of We
nous blood change the condition OF tho rest OF the san
guineous stagnance mpart energy to those nerVes
which, under poisoned influence have ceased 70 per
form their important functions Of giving life and action
10 the whole system -No, the practice OF bleeding.
especiay in the stage Of collapse admits not even Of
that siIia simi5us defense which may be set up for
the tobacco Injections Of which it has boon said that
when dogs are poisoned by them, the symptoms pro-
duced are precisely those Of Cholcra-purgng, Vomt
ing. cessation Of the pulse. complete collapse.
But in spite of promise. We have digressed into
debate and with thought OF apology TO the reader
we come back to the treatment which We believe has
been concusvey proven to be the logical and natural
end TO which the true pathological paths infaoly con
verge and for which any one must be prepared who
has followed thus far on the trail Of clearsghted and
keen-sceDted explorers.
There are usually three stages to case Of Cholera
first the Premonitory or Warning sagei secondly. tho
cold blue or stage of Collapse which alone is true
Cholera, and finally the stage Of Consecutive Fever.
which Is the result Of reaction and differs In no respect
erorn a common continued fever The first aud last