The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-10-23

thoFt were they OF service. Sim pie appli-
cations OF mustard were generally sufficient
to relieve the pain in the back. Absolute
rest and nourishment were of the highest
possible importance. Any form of stimu-
liant may b. given that the patient prefers
but malt liquors are the best. Brandy ma
often be given even with the fever. Beei
tea Is necessary, and if the stomach cannot
retain it, il must be given by injection.
W here there is acidity of stom ach. smalI
doses OF bicarbonate of soda, com bined with
the one. thirty second part of a grain of
mOrphia. had often an excellent effect.
Spohging the patient with cold water Is
grateful and appro pirate. but on no aocca-
sion must be be disturbed by the treatment.
There is much in anticipating certain
symptoms. If there is a disposition to de-
lirlum and wandering, it may be guarded
against by mild auodynes and stimulahts.
II this delirium is allowed 10 continue, the
patient becomes comatOse and dies. 1t
must be remem bered that yellow fever pa
tlents are wholly irresponsible, and though
they may talk reasonably, they do not APP
preciate their own condition. 1t was ex
ceedingly difficult to keep patients quiet in
bed, yet it was the most essential part of
the treatment. l once saved an intelligent
sea captain, during one OF the epidemlcs, by
threatening to cut his throat if he dared to
stir from given position in the intervals OF
NV visits.
The treatment of yellow fever is simple.
a mighty disease it needed mighty rene
dies, and when l first went to New Orleans.
it was customary to give 60 grain doses OF
calomel, and even more than that and yet
some patients did even then get well. With
rational treatment large proportion will
recover. The chief difficulty lies in pre-
venting the patient from committing fatal
acts of inliscretion in the absence of his
physician. 1t should be rendered that ev
cry thing depends on rest and nutrition, and
that nothing could be gained by depletion
1t is even better to allow the bowels to re-
m ain unmoved for five or six days than to
run the risk of giving active purgatiVes."
Perhaps, then, it is better sometimes not
to be gentlemanly? That is unGoubtedly
the practical conclusion of those who feel
uncom Portable when they have been COW
cred with mud, until they can throw mud
in return. But the self-restraint which
good manners imposes is always better than
Letting yourself go" Mephistopheles Is
never a good counsellor. and largely be-
cause he is not a gentleman. The real
Sephardim may or may not trace continur
Gus gentle blood through interminable
generations of ancestry. But they do not
slam their boots nor their doors, nor hustle
in late at concerts and talk during the per
fOrmance, nor occupy more seats in a rail-
road car than they pay for, nor keep their
seats in street car, compelling woman to
stand. They may. indeed, reproye and re-
buke. but without heat or personality, like
Thomas when he feared that the music in
terru pied the conversation, or like that true
gentleman whom the older Berkshire knew,
and who said to the Young woman to whom
he had given his place in the car, and who
asked him what he was waiting for, ''OnlY
to hear you say, thank you,' my dear.''-
Editors Easy Chair, in Harper's Magazine
for November.