Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-06-21
The Cholera.

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The cholera morbus, which prevails
in some Of our cities, is an aggravated
form Of diarrhea, The symptoms of
this disease should therefore be care
fully noted. and a judicicus physician,
when convenient, should be consulted.
The American Journal of Pharmacy
gives the following directions:
A diarrhea, no matter how slight,
cannot be considered cured until the
discharges have entirely resumed their
natural appearance and frequency for
two days, and even then it will recur
from slighter causes than at first, and
be more obstinate after each relapse.
No matter how mild or slight the di-
arrhea may be, the physician should
be informed of it, if he be at hand or
can easily be reached. But if he be
not at hand, time should not be lost in
waiting for him; and with prompt and
proper attention he may then not be
needed at all. A simple mild diar-
rhea is easily arrested by rest, diet,
and small dose of iaudanum, with or
without spirits of camphor, taken af-
ter every discharge from the bowels /;
and such doses can always be had in a
very few moments from every apOth-
ecary shop. But the experience of
many epidemics has shown that judi
cious combination of three or four
medicines, all oSwhich have been long
used In various proportions, and about
which there is no secresy or complica-
ton, is better addapted to the general
ity of such cases than any one or two
Of them while such combination is
adapted to later stages and more Sc
we're cases of the disease, to which
laudanum and camphor alone would
not SO well apply.
Such judicious combination COM
piled from the recorded knowledge on
the subject, will be found in the fol-
lowing mixture, which all good apoth-
ecaries can make and keep ready for
use. And the public generally is
strongly advised to adopt and rely up
on this as being better and more safe
than the advertised specifics and nos
trums of the day; and as BENGAL that
the present state of knowledge will af-
ford, and all that common sense and
reason can expect from any remedy
not adjusted to each special case, as
remedies always should be if possible.
Apothecaries are also strongly ad-
vised to adopt the formula, name and
lable-to prepare the mixture careful
ly from good materials, and to sell it
with the label and directions here
given, and to sell no other prepare
ton for these uses, except upon the
written prescription of physician.
The label and directions here given in
full detail, are adapted to four ounce
vial, and the apothecary only has to
have them copied by his own label
printer, with his business card appen-
ded at the botaom.
Compound Tfncture Of Opium or
Diarrhea Medicine.-The mixture is
composed of the Tincture of Opium
Spirit of Camphor, and Tincture of
Capsicum, each one fluid ounce Puri-
fed Choloroform three fluid drachms,
and a sufficient quantity of strong Al
chohol to make the whole measure five
fluid ounces.
Each fluid drachm or teaspoonful
contains about 100 drops, consisting of
twelve minims of each of the first
three ingredients, and A minims or Is
drops of chloroform.
Dose-For a person over Is years of
age, teaspoonful IA to Is, small
teaspoonful; 10 to II, half a teaspoon
full 6 to 10, thirty drops 2 to 6, ten
to thirty drops infants, to 10 drops,
according TO age.
In time of epidemic cholera or diar-
rhea, when any person has two move
ments of the bowels more than natural
within twenty-four hours, the second
one should be followed by a dose OF
this mixture, the dose to be repeated
after every movement that follows. If
the movements increase In frequency
or in copiousness after the second dose
of the medicine has been taken, ply
sician should be sent for at once, and
double dose be taken after each
movement until he arrives. Immedi-
ately after taking the first dose the
person should go to bed and remain
there for twelve hours after the diar-
rhea has entirely ceased.