The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1879-07-31

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We had fashiuu- ia medicine forty
years ago, aud We have iashious now /.
Forty years ago W. used 10 bleed-or
rather. should say, phlebotomiEe
everyone sat At the table II hos
2itsl forty years ago. and when | saw
preseiibei, hlae pill at night, aud black
draught Ia the morning, knew what
was golug a. be- the next question
The next quer,i,ni w"uld be. Have you
any pain anywhere Aud woe to the
patient if he said he bad, or even If he
thought he had The next line would
be certain TO be, TcHeSectio al uacias
duodecim, bleeding to twelve ounces.
! saw that repeated a dozen times in
one morning when was pupil, upon
all sorts OF persons, Of all ages, Of all
sizes, and OF b 9TH sexes. lu fact that
was the bloody era OF our profession.
| believe that il all the blood shed by
the lancet during the first quarter OF
this century could have been collected,
it would have made a veIy respectable
Dead Sea.
A reaction took place Ia the profess
sion. We gave ~ the lancet, AS we
found that people living in cities and
towns were not always laborng under
infiammstory diseases. What we are
laboring under now 10 debility, Every
thing is debility now. We went to the
other therefore brandy be-
GENE the elixir vit@, the sole panacea
Ter all the ills that flesh is heir to. II
man were IN collapse. brandy relieved
him il in the agony OF collie, brandy
revived him if lie were burning out
in fever brandy cooled him, and if he
we're starved to death, brandy warmed
him. In fact, brandy was the pet drug
Of the pharmacopgia. Everything else
dwindled into obsecurity. People took
brandy for everything almost, and took
il as often as Mrs. Darlington did.
That lady took it under only two con.
ditioDs- when she was very poorly and
when she wasn't
Well, we took to brandy to cure dis
ease, aud we had noble man to follow
as Psychologist be gave the most
brandy of any man that know of. lie
treated one gentleman with brandy
every hour, member OF Parliament
Tue patient took above gallon 0,
brandy in very short time 1t is OF
record that he never finished his second
gallon; and the family had to 60 sud
denly into black.
| will give you some of my reasons
for disseminating the treatment OF di
sease with alcohol. In Hull, In the
year 40 we had the cholera very bad
indeed. II ravaged amidst us fearful
ly. Above two thousand persons were
buried 10 our cemetery victims OF thi,
disease saw at least one hundred
persons day in that dreadful discas,
and most OF those who died we're iron
thirty TO forty years Of age. We trlec
the brandy and opium treatment. ana
that was a failure Altogether, We lost
somewhere about forty or fifty pei
cent OF the persons attacked, by the
stimalant treatment and with opium
The cholera took off nearly all the
drunkards. have since treated many
cases OF cholera, without stimuanis
and never lost case.
Turning to fever | have tried a..
cohol IN lever, aud have treated ievei
without alcohol, and my experience IL
that we lose five per cent ia treating
cases Of fever without alcohol aud
twenty five per cent with alcohol II
is the experience oi warehouses; aud
hospitals that Que patient ia ten o.
those treated with brandy for fever
died but Of those treated without
brandy. ouly one death in thirty case,
occurred.
have treated many cases OF delhi
um tremens aud have given alcoholic
liquors heroicaiiy. but bad many deaths
during that treatment and ii Is sing