The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-05-22
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Mr.. EDITOR--Wkcn we have no other,
with whom we may communicate freely, we
NAV address ourselves to the Editor. We
means the people, and the writer is only
the amenuenss. Several distinguished Po-
liticsl Doctors have favored US with able
disQuisitions on the 'Situation - and each
of them has lett such prescriptions, as, he
supposed, the maladieS with which the body
polite was afflicted, required. But we con-
fess that we have not been able to distn-
gush between their diagnoSicationS Of the
disease, nor the difference in the effects Of
their different prescriptions, when traced to
their ultimate results. One recommends
blstering near some vital organ, and ano-
ther the cxtrcmties, and yet another re-
commendS opiates in great excess, so us to
produce mastery inactivity. We would
suggest that bIiStcring ointment never fails
to excite the sick man, no matter on what
part of the body, or which Of the members
it may be placed, and IS the nervous sys-
tenn seems to be deeply involved in this
case, We think that treatment inadmissible
And while we believe the sick man should
be kept quiet, we are not sure the opiatcs
should be so freely administered, as it may
be necessary that the patient should be re-
vived to meet some other symptom that may
develop itself,
But We only make these suggestions, for
we do not know whether this disease is in
its Incl pency Of malignance or whether it
is an old chronic case, exhibiting new and
more malign mt symptoms, superinduced
BY its sudden introduction into a warmer
climate, or whether the treatment should
be directed TO the removal Of the cause, or
to the treatment Of the symptoms us they
appear. We have heard that one Dr.. VIII
son, Of some notorietv in the treatment of
loathSome diseases, had volunteered his
great skill in the treatment Of this distin-
gushe1 patient, and that he examined the
sick man and left prescription to be car
ried out by some Of his new Office Students
with directions that if the remedy pro-
posed, should be too nauSeating for the
condition of the patient, that he must be
removed to some more SalubriouS climate
But we feel assured that the patient is
wholly unable to change his locality at
present, for many Of his members are al
ready paIalyzed. Thus we can only call
the attention Of our own doctors to the con-
ditiou of the sick man, and invite their
most deliberate consultation Oh the case
That per chance something may be found
that will prevent both the dissolution und
the expatr;atOn Of the patient. And we
suggest that they should deliberate we'll
before any treatment is decided on. Let
the symptoms fully develop the condition
of the patient, and then determine upon
a course. One Of the most distinguished
physicians has decided that it will be more
than two months before this disease is fully
developed, and perhaps two more before it
reaches its crisis. Then the treatment II ay
be ventured on with more safety. And
then the patient his nervous system being
exceedingly sensitive, must be treated with
great tenderness. In the mean time let all
the members OF the sick man be properly ex-
ercised, and rendered as healthy as possible
by proper local treatment, even if the
greatest amount Of friction be necessarily
employed, to impart TO them vitality and
strength for the support Of the enlccbled
sick Body in the approaching crisis. For
unless the members can be kept compara-
lively healthy and in proper sympathy with
the Body, we may not hope Cor lis restora-
ton to health under present circumstances.
NOTA BENE.