Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-22

EDrToRs APPEAL-In the hope that l may
do some good to suffering humanity, l VEN
ture to ask your permission to address your
afflicted community, through your paper, on
the subject of a new specific for malignant
yellow-fever. You may ask why do not ad-
dress myself to the medical profession d.
rectly. Ny answer Is, that the profession is
too highly conservative to be moved from the
beaten track in time to do good In this cpl
demic. The angel Gabriel could not move
them from their favorite opium, quinlne,
mercury, whisky, sweats, baths, sinaphisms,
and less fatal but ineficacious methods of
expectancy, as diet, rest, etc., until after
century OF wordy warfare over the rationale
of the new treatment. In the above | mean
no disrespect to the profession. Conserva-
tism is good trait, since it gives a solidity
THAT sometimes, perhaps, degenerates into
stolidlty), that might otherwise be lacking.
| merely state trite fact. And in an emer
gency such as is upon your community land
which may yet be upon the whole country,
there is no time nor place for delicate appre-
tensions. Briefly, then, the treatment
that | have to recommend-nay, to
plead most earnestly for-is as follows:
ChtOrGte Of potash, one ounce; distilled
toGter or ciste1n ioater, sirteeH ounces; mir
and stir until the chlOrate is disSOlred. To
pulverize the chlorate finely will greatly ia
cilitate solution. When dissolved give as
follows: to child one year old, half tea
spoonful every hour; to child two to five
years old, one teaspoonful every hour; to
child five to ten years old, two teaspoonfuls
every hour; to child ten to fifteen years
old, three teaspoonfuls every hour; for an
adult, four teaspooniuls every hour. No
other medicine need be giUen. When one
| dose IS vomited up another should be given
immediately; and, should the stomach be so
| irritable as not to retain the medicine at all,
1t should be given by injection into the rec
tum, using three times the quantity as per
mouth. This treatment should be commenced
at the outset and continued Perslstentiy unlli
| the patient Is convalescent. Inc argument
| Is, partly, that Of all drugs, the potasslc
| chlorate possesses pre-eminently the power
| to restore the functional activity OF the KID
neys and liver. Under its use the ALBUMIN
Gus urine of malignant diptherla and scarla-
tina is quickly rendered normal MOI Ia Inc PHI
| verdln Is rapidly eliminated from the biood
| nv the restored functions of the liver, and
secretory and excretery functions OF
! the skin are restored, uramIc Is obvi-
ated, and the speclhc blood-destroy-
| ing virus Is neuiraiZeu IN Tue bissueS-
! VSw sncb naturalization of the virus is ac-
con,nl;sbad becomes apparent when We re-
1oar1ha- that the potassic chlorate is richest
- III J.,1-s or chemicals in available oxygen
| 0,,,r-an Is the true virus destroyer. Fatty
| S:y,eS,,aratiop, the pathological consequent of
er,SNoyvdation, and the peculiar lesion OF ma
anfT
ngns;oiogical oxidation brought about by the
pdSytact az the infinitely divided particles of
U I1olassic chlorate with the ultimate tissues.
Ry1;cbt bring even stronger technical argu-
I.,ants to bear upon these points. But, as
tb;s article is for the non-professionsl part of
| tbe community, | will close by reminding
them that, confessedly, the ordinary treat
T1ent of yellow-fever is most unsatisfactory.
According to Flint, intelligent practitioners
Who have had much experience with the dis
ease place as much reliance upon attentive
nursing and dietetic measures as upon the
most hopeful drug treatment. The high
mortality at Grenada and, In fact, at all other
points is sufficient comment upon the utter
impotency of the drugs and methods N use
For the especial behoof of the profession,
beg to remind them that the "chlorinated-
water" treatment which DIR. Fenner Il be-
Iieye that is the name) adopted from Watson
was a faint and imbecile prototype of the
| treatment here recommend. Yours frater-
nally, a. 70 W; TAYLOR