Daily globe., 1879-01-26

10 YellOW leVer poison. CnacCllmated
doctors, science blind or crazy, have slept
witt yellow fever patients, dissected thei.
bodies, injected their blood into their own
veins. and even drank the black vomit( J
with perfect impuni1y.
Fear has good deal to do with it, as
with many other diseases. The Yellow
fever is something ike a mean yellow Dog.
If you face him and defy him he will slink
| away, but if you recede from him he Will
pursue and attack you. He has been
known to chase people as tar as Cincinna-
ii or New York. There is an immense
t;eal of pious lying done by doctors and
| nurses and friends to keep up the hope
| and courage Of yellow fever patients. A
| doctor and a nurse with q panicky face
are as mean a couple of portraits as you
could display in a sick room.
Pleasantly aside, q bad case Of yellow
fever is we'll calculated to make think
ing man afraid. It is not only a severe
malady, but a fearfully treacherous ana
Geceittul one. It is the oppossum OF dis
eases; it pretends to be sleeping Or even
dead and gone, when it is more alive than
ever: not only are its symptoms of the
most distressing kind, but the sudden
turns it takes are absolutely appalling.
What are you to think Of disease in
| which you leave your patient at nine
o'clock in the morning expressing him
self perfectly well, and actually looking
SO, sending dispatches to his wife, couvers-
ing cAeerTully and nationally, and whom
you find dead and laid out Il few hours
afterwara? These inexpllcable changes
are the causes OF q great many supersti-
tons, false, theories and absurd regula-
tons Of the sick room.
The energetic minds Of nurses and
friends must iin0 cause fer these
changes. and they generally seize upon
the last thing taken o. done as the true one.
''Oh, the patient was getting on splen-
didly, but the dccter came in and threw
off one Of the blankets, and he went
right into q congestive chilli 'The doc
cor gave him two ,ablespoonfuls Of chick
en- tea and it brought on the black yom-
it, "The doctor LET him change his
shirt on the fifth Gay---and, Of course, he
died on thc SIXTH "Thev allowed him
q drink CT ice water, and he had seven
convulsions the next day. "The doctor
had one Of the windows opened: and the
patient went out OF his mind in fifteen
minutes.H
A thousand such stories are being
waited to and fro upon the air Of New
Orleans to day TO all OF which we doc
tors may relate the story OF Mr.. Smith,
who fell dead while shaving himself at
his looking glass one morning-and the
editorial comment-"and yet, notvith
standing this appalling catastrophe, men
will continue shaving themselves at zlleir
looking glasses every day!''
1t is very queer that yellow fever should
have spread so extensively in all direc-
tons, when there are so many sure and
easy ways Of preventing it. As soon as it
appeared, how many genuine phil
anthropists, retired nurses, retired mis-.
sionaries, etc, came TO the front and told
us how to escape it! I am eclectic in my
principles, and take the good out of
everything-so I made a compound
prophylactic prescription for my patients
which never failed to prevent the disease
in every case in which it was tried 1t was
this: Wear cempnor bag on your breast,
q capsicine plaster On your back, Ho!-
mans pad on your stomach, hoH Hers of
sulphur III your stockings, the rattles of
a rattlesna}le in your pocket, aid take a
pill OF quinine every morning, pulverized
charcoal at dinner, Winslow's soothing
syrup at bed time, Simon's liver regulator
twice week, and go off at once to the
White mountains!
It is very queer also that the board Of
health should have persisted in reporting
so many deaths when we doctors were SO
uniformly successful. The answer will
always De in the affirmative. Il logically
follows, therefore, that we have all been
successful-and as DR.. Smith is dead,
there is nobody left to father the epidemic.
To achieve success, however, the doc
tors were put to their metal. Old allo-
path, venerable with years and honors,
emerged from his Office radiant with cob
webs, and piled his purgatives and ene-
tics, and sweatings and bHsterjngs, and
calomel aud quinine and morphine, and
succeeded just as he did in ;53 and AT
and 80, and one or two hundred years
away back! Young aliopathy, with his
clinical thermometer and hypodcrmic
syringe, his scientific incredulity,. his
SiIdi IOStS diill Lew ICllcu1CS, Ills pCu-
chant for fresh air and cold water, made
a great many friends and pretty good
record. Homeopathy, whith his sublime
faith in the nlinuter operations of nature
and Of medicine, his scientific precision,
his pocket drug store under his arm, and
a friendly leaning toward young allo-
pathy, succeded--well let his friends
| tell how he succeeded
| Lastly, and the queerest thing of all.
there is a prophylactic against yellow
fever, not likely to be discovered or en-
dorsed by the present yellow fever COM
mission. That is, the very cautious and
skilltul incubation with the poison of
| the rattlesnake, SO as to produce a slight
artificial disease resembling yellow fever.
| This will prove more eficacious than
| belladonna against scarlet fever; it may
even rival in value the use of vaccination
against smallpox. But as this measure
is based upon and conhrmatory Of the
homeopathic law of cure, it will have tl
wait upon the sure but gradual evolution
of homeopathy itself; upon the happy
times when allopathy and quarantines
are like extinct.--Dr. ". Il. Holcombe ii
Neeo Orleans Picaymae
| "A Good Little Creature,''
Cincinnati Enqirer.
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