Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-02-01

preventive, with exceptions so rare, and with |
symptoms so slight when any appear, that one
is forced TO believe that the fault was rather |
in an insufficient dose than in the agent. Given
when either of these diseases has developed
an attack, and within a few hours the activity
of TIE disease has ceased, and the remaining
symptoms speedily fade ont into health.
Administered to case of Puerperal Fever,
when one septic@mc chill follows another,
with the hot, drenching sweat between, and if
not too late in the history of the case, the
patient may be assured that not more than
one chill viii follow its first administration,
and the high temperature and icterode hue Of
skin will disappear with most gratifying
promptness, No less gratifying is the action
of this substance when administered in Erysip~
elas The rapidly disappearing inflammation
OF the shin stops short, and convalescence
begins.
The constancy with which these results fol-
low the administration of this admirable anti
septic constitutes demonstration of the sep
tic character of these diseases we'll nigh as
convincing as the recognition of the parasite
under the microscope; and coming, as we do,
through these clinical observationsby differ
ent route, to the same conclusions reached by
EdsteuF anu MS cO-laDOrerS, the CONCLUSIONS
are both gratifying and suggestive.
1t remains to be determined whether Small
Pox, Cholera, Yellow Fever, and other forms
of epidemic or contagious diseases will be
anne nable to antiseptic treatment. The Splen
c Fever, which has proved SO destructive of
animal life on the Continent of Europe, will
without doubt respond TO this mode of treat
ment.
| incline to the belief that the Roetheia will
not be fully controlled by this form of anti
septic but the number of cases under obser-
walton has been too small to admit of definite
conclusions.
The following examples will, l am sure, be
full of interest:
Montague Mich, a little community well up
in the lumber districts, was visited this winter
by sharp epidemic of Scarlet Fever, from
which over forty children died; and some of
the people, in their alarm, predicted that soon
there would be no children in the community
The family of James Dalton, and three or four
of his ne;ghbors, including nineteen children,
ha1 the sulpho>carbolaie of soda as preventive
These were the only families in the village
which escaped the disease, and none of the
nineteen children suffered from it,
Maplewood Chicago, is cluster of families
to the north and east of Humboldt Park,
where Scarlet Fever has made several inroads
upon many families. Four or five families, in
the midst of the epidemic influence, enjoyed
entire immunity by using the antseptic.
Toledo. Ia, little country town, healthtul-
ly located, was visited by an epidemic of Diph-
| liberia. CP n Barker, under date of Dec.
/, wrote "This terrible disease-Diphtheria
is prevailing to an alarming degree in this
town and vicinity The physicians here seem
to be utterly powerless to relieve a patient.
and we have to stand by and see our children
die, knowing that any medical help here will
| be unavaing" Jan. Is he writes: II know
of a great many families here who are, and
| have been using your preventive OF Diphtheria
this winter; and as far as | can learn by inqul-
| ry, it has answered fully all expectations as a
preventive .of that dread disease. Our little
| daughter Maud who has been taking it twice
| day without intermission for the last five or
six weeks, is in absolutely perfect health. She
is brighteyed rosy, and full OF the old
| Nick'n
| H. B. Fellows, NJ D. physician of Chicago
of rare ability and skill, under date of Jan. 10,
writes II think the cases of Diphtheria have
recovered in half the time where the sulpho-
| carbolate OF soda has been given, that they
| have taken under any treatment heretofore
adoped." One case is mentioned by him
| where person had some soreness of throat
and slight symptoms although taking the
antiseptic as a preventive; but the person so
affected was nursing severe case of the dis
ease, and took perhaps, too small dose. The
children in the same family, fully exposed to
| the contagion, escaped the disease entirely,
| by taking the preventive.
| He mentions another case A child of about
4 years was taken with the usual symptoms oil
| Scarlet Fever, and, in addition, there was on
each tons patch of Diphtheritic membrane
| The antiseptic had not been taken as pre-
ventive, but was now given, in conjunction
| with other treatment. In one day the throat
/ was free from membrane, and all symptoms
moderated, the child doing remarkably well
| till the sixth or seventh day. when general
d5ensieaalp pfeeas5ana63 f 6fIns On examination,
| the urine exhibited neither casts nor albumen
| and, the tire ament being continued, the func-
| tions of of the kidneys were restored in two
or three days, and the dropsical symptoms
entirely disappeared. Such a convalesence
could hardly have been hoped for under
| former modes of treatment. He says; I'm
other cases of Scarlet Fever where have
used the sulpho~carbolate of soda no sequel@
have followed, and have thought the course
of the disease much lighter. None have
| died"
| One lady reports that her boy, after using
| the preventive, was indisposed for two days,
| bat not so ill as to need physician. Review
| ing the symptoms afterward, she was inclined
| to regard i: as light attack of Scarlet Fever.
| If so, this is the only case that has come to my
| knowledge Of child being attacked who had
taken the preventive.
Two families resided in the same village
| One employed bell adonna as a preventive,
and three children out of four had Scarlet
Fever the other family used the sulphocar-
bolate of soda, and escaped entirely.
The proprietor of one our city theaters of
four children one was down with Scarlet
Fever, when he procured the antiseptic, and
administered it to them ALL The sick one
recovered without other medical treatment,
and the others escaped.
These examples could be multiplied ad
liditum, but enough perhaps has been said to
indicate at least that this agent is worthy OF a
still more extended application.
| earnestly commend it to the attention of
the Boards of Health in all our larger cities,
and of the true physician everywhere. In
bringing forward this mode of treatment,
gave it first to the profession, and afterward
to the public, desiring that my name should
appear only in so far as it might commend the
treatment to those who had confidence in me.
NV task is ended when the sulphocarbolate
of soda shall have won its way to public conf
dence, as it has to my own
cannot dismiss this subject without a
warning to those who pretend to make use of
this agent, but use so small quantity as
to be utterly valucless l do not know that
this agent possesses any other therapeutic
properties than as an antiseptic; and, to be
useful as such, it must be be given in quantity
sufficient to disintect the blood, otherwise it
will he as useless in the face of these diseases
as the spray of an atomtzer in extinguishing
a eonhagraton.
G. d, BEEBE.