The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-05

Relative Value OF Sulpbo Carb0late
ofSoda, BelIadOnna and ChIOrate
of Potassium as Relnedies-The
Experience OF an Eminent Phys-
fcian.
DIR. Robert Hunter in Chicago Tribune.
The prevalence of these diseases as an
epidemic, and the claims put forth in be.
half of sulpho-carbolate of soda and bel
lsdonna - remedies, render everything
which tends to estab Ish the truth or
falsity Of such claims of absorbing inter-
est.
have for several years past used the
sulphite and hyphosulpbite of soda and
carbolic acid externally In my practice,
and found them very beneficial in Ger.
tain forms of catarrhal disease of
the nose and throat, but they
have never proved in my hands of the
least value 10 diptheria. On the contrary,
l have had positive proof that they
have no influence in preventingr 1t. Sew.
eral instances have occurred during the
present winter where patients under
treatment for other forms of throat dis
ease, and who had been for weeks using
strong nose and throat washes of sulpho-
carbonate OF soda, were violently at
tackled with diphtheris. With such facts
before me, it is impossible that can re-
gard it as in any sense preventive OF that
disease.
Regarding bellsdonna, there is the
same discrepancy in authorities, some
able physicians asserting most positively
that it has absolute preventive powers
over scarlet fever, and others denying
that it has any snch power. So long ago
as 1889, Bayle reported 2pO27 cases In
which the remedy was given during the
Epidemic. Of thess 1913 escaped and -
were attacked. Dusterberg reported
that all who were placed under
the remedy for two weeks were preserved.
Zeuch, physician to the military
hospital for children iu %yrol, tells US
that after "a children were attacked, the
remaining 81 children in the hospital
were placed under the influence N bella.
donna, and, with single exception, all
were preserved, notwithstanding the
disease existed all around them. DIR.
Stievenart tells US that during an cpl
demic of great virulence and fatality he
administered belladoAna to 200 children,
all of whom were preserved, while OF 90
to whom he did not administer 1t, IA
took the disease.
At Cusgies he administered belladon-
ma to children of the public school, and
all who took the remedy escaped.
while the few who refused 10 do so
were attacked.
The way in which DR.. Stievenart ad-
ministered it was To dissolve two
grains OF the extract of belladonns in
an ounce OF any aromatic infusion. Or
this two drops were given to child OF
one year, daily for ten days, and an ad-
ditional drop for every additional year
of age. The lsrges. daily dose in any
any case being twelve drops.
regard it as perfectly safe to use
either the sulpho-csrbolate of soda or
belladonna in the doses recommended.
No harm can result even should they
fail to meet the BENEFICIAL powers sttribu-
ted to them. But is it necessary to rely
upon these remedies after the disease is
set up? That question l shall not at
temp, to answer in regard to scarlet
fever flor of late years have no special
experience in its treatment), but | say,
unhesitatingly, no in reference to diph-
liberia, in the treatment of which have
had q very large experience, and can,
therefore, speak confidently. For this
disease We have an invaluable remedy in
the chlorate Of potassium. The coarse
pursued by me is as follows:
l. l Immediately place the patient, if
he be an adult, on twenty-grsin doses oil
the chlorste dissolved in hot water, and
administered every half hour for the first
SIX hours, after which the same dose
every hour, day and night, until the dis
ssse is arrested. The dissolved salt should
be held in the throat a few seconds be-
fore swallowing it.
2. When ash-colored spots begin TO
appear on the tonsils and back OF the
throat, l touch them with solution OF
nitrate of silver, of the strength of dram
to An ounce OF water, applied by a camels
hair pencil. A single application Is
usually all that is necessary.
3. / keep the nostrils free, and cleanse
them from the obstructing secretions by
frequently injecting them witha satu-
rated solution of the chlors.e applied
warm and thrown up with sufficient force
to pass it through to the throat.
i. Lastly ]. direct the patient to inhsle
the vspor OF hot water, indicated by
the addition of few drops of fluid ex-
tract of siramonium, belladonns and
conium, which keeps the throat moist,
sllays irritation, and acts as sedative
fermentation within the windpipe.
This treatment, aided by strong
nourishipg delivery salt beet tea, and
attention 10 the stomach and bowels, has
proved with me an absolute specific for
diphtheria. Although treat great
number of cases. have not had in my
practice a death from this disease in
In children the doses must OF course,
be in proportion to the age. For a child
one year and under one give one gram OF
the salt, and add ono additional grain to
the dose for each additional year OF age;
thus, three grains to child OF Three
wears, five to one of five years, and 80 on
up 10 twenty. The doses must be re-
peated every half hour for the first slI
hours after which every hour Is indi'
Gated.
TO TOBACCO FACTORS.