Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-11-05
A Care for Small Pex.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. pc, =

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. PC, -
r Inc Editor qr nc 81. Louis Desiocrat:
Noticing that the Small Pox is pre-
vailing in your city, | offer through
your columns few suggestions based
un my own personal experience with
the psstilence here last winter, which
will save many Il life if needed. The
great fatality attending small pCX, and
IN fact any dreaded disorder, is that
this ytry dread causes even the strick-
en- ones nearest relations TO neglect
the patient. IL may seem "a bold aSseT-
ton, but ! make ii confidently, that,
II taken In time and properly nursed.
not over five in every one hundred OF
the worst Small PoS cases you ever
heard of will prove fatal. And all
this without doctor ever seeing them
at all. Now for the modus.
/. The patient begins to feel queer,
laDguid, out of sorts-but cannot tell
why Shortly the head begins to ache,
next q chilliness creeps up the back,
next aches, perhaps circulating in
intensity seiZes the limbs, and the
head by this time is in perfect agony.
This is the first opportunity TO adj
vance against the disorder. At once
get the patient 10 the room always
used for sleeping-ior his or her life's
sake do not, as is generally done,
knock up pallet away up in lum-
her room or drearY Earret--SO as to
prevent the spread of the Cuntagion to
the rest Oi ths family; for Ivy that time
every member of that household who
is susceptible of the disease at all has
got Ii, and will go through the course
OF the disorder though you send him
instantly fifty miles away. Such an
net OF barbarity and cOward:ce takes
away the very hope and encourage
ment that the sick one needs.
>. Now give strong emetic-mus-
tard water, tartar emetic, or ipccacuan-
he.
2. When the stomach is thus cleared,
lot the patient rest ten or fifteen min
Utcs. Then put the feet and legs into
bucket of strong mustard water
hot-at least eight ounces of the most
powerful mustard in the bucket. Lave
the legs with this water up To the
kYees. DO this ten or twelve minutes.
8. Cover the patient up with the
bed clothes. Presently lie or she is
chilly or hot; put on or take off COW
erlets TO suit. --..
.. NOW, tnSll, TIC ShiH Is DtSllHiiiS
20 get red spots like pin points upon it,
scattered evenly, or gathered into
patches. II the latter. the case is
called bad, or by physicians, continent.
6. Drink. waterI water! is the
plaintive or wildly shouted plea. Give
it promptly; not in huge dranghts at
long intervals. but I'm little sips every
few minutes. Explain kindly 10 the
yatient the reason for this, and that
on will give him one Of these little
sirinks lust az often as he wants. De-
ling the next twenty-four or forty
eight hours give three or four hot mus
taTd water foot-baths, and every now
and then, when drink is wanted,
change the plain cold water for toast
water, plain black cold tea, or thin,
cold oatmeal Cruel IN which there as
70 butter. Whichever of these the
pa,ient prefers give him till he tires of
Il. The Cruel is the most strengthen
ing. Between these give him sips of
cold. strong beef tea with o pinch or
salt in il. or chicken tea. il he falls
ssleen don't leave the room, but watch
sarcri,liy till he wakes, when at once