The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-12-04

| A FRIEND sends me . slip cut from
recent newspaper, inquiring for relia
bic remedy for whooping cough. l an
enabled to give the desired information
after actual experience in my own fami
", and through the equally favorable
experience Of more than q score o
friends and neighbors who have tried it
1t is well known to most intelligent
people that exposure of patients to thu
vapors arising from the purifying boxe'
in the gas works almost invariably re
lieves the terrible paroxysms, and, afte'
repeated visits, cures have been fire
quently effected. This discovery wa.
made by physician in Paris about fif
teen years ago.
The fact was published, and soon at
ter visits began to be made to the Man
haitian, New York, Brooklyn, and othe1
gas works, on the recommendation Of
our medical men. An epidemic Of
whooping cough ragged in Newport il
the winter Of 1873. Over 200 patients
between the ages of two months and
seventy-fve years, visited the gas works
The Treasurer Of the company, William
A. Stedman, Esq, states that nearly all
were benefited, and some were undOubt'
edly cured.
About that time the child of a distin.
guished chemist in Providence, X. l.,
was seriously i'll with this terrible dis
ease, and too weak to be taken to the
gas works. The father procured a
quantity Of the liquid hydrO-carbon de-
posted by condensation in the bottom
Of the purifying box, and vaporized it in
q metal dish in the closed room of the
little sufferer. Almost Immediately II
revived, the spasms were checked, and
after q few days the child recovered and
was as well as ever.
Microscopists have recently discov-
cred that the cause Of whooping cough
(pertussis) is the rapid aggregation Of
bacteria under the root of the tongue.
These must be destroyed before relief
can be obtained. To this end such pow
erful medicine as quinine bromide is
given; but even that fails to reach the
seat of the disease. Of course the or
binary expectOrants are absolutely USE
less; change of air is rarely curative ;
hence lie rapidly increasing percentage
OF deaths from this disease.
The New York Board Of Health re.
port for 1875 has q list of 4S9 deaths
from whooping cough in that city. The
deaths weekly in London, England, are
from minimum of 60 to maximum of
22O, over 5000 annually.
Physicians generally inform the anx-
ious parents that whooping cough must
take its course, as q remedy is unknown,
and they can only slightly relieve it.;
that the incubation and increase in
yirulence will occupy six weeks, and
from six weeks to six months will be re-
quired before it is entirely removed.
The whoOpings usually increase regu-
;arly in number from day to day to the
fifth week, often equaling forty times
in twenty-four hours. Very rarely is
this disease preceded by any other, but
so great is the strain upon the system
that frequently it is followed by pneu.
monia, in which event death often en-
sues. A fatal termination is more GEN
orally the result Of absolute physical ex.
haustion due to the terrible strain conse-
quent upon the oft-recurring paroxysms.
A few years since my youngest child,
never before i'll, was stricken by this
dread disease. The best medical talent
was obtained, every known remedy
tried, most watchful care constantly ex.
ercised, but without the slightest avail.
The child actually coughed itself to
death. With all the grief Of this sad
experience still fresh, in April, 1879, we
were alarmed by new incursion Of the
destroyer. Onr children, 5 and 7 years,
were attacked, seemingly with the sever
ity Of the preceding case. 81
1t was then l learned of this P.ovi-
dence chemists discovery, and that
simple but ingenious apparatus had
been invented by which the hydro
carbon (by analysis found 70 be creso.
lene C6H5CH3Oj could be evaporated
in closed room. Immediately pro-
cured both. The apparatus is metal
stand six inches high, supporting cup,
holding half an ounce of cresolene. The
heat is supplied either BY petroleum
night lamp or gas; vapOrizers being
made to attach to IN ordinary gas burn
er.
Cresolene is rose-pink liquid with
boiling point Of 397 degrees. 1t is not
unpleasant in odor, but, on the other
hand, is extremely grateful to any one
with the least bronchial or catarrhal af.
lection. ,...
In three minutes after the lamp was
lighted the vapor Of the cresolene was
difused in every part Of q room Is BY
20 feet. In ten minutes the children
manifested evident relief, recovered
from their dull exhaustion and we're
playing on the bed, even laughing aloud
in their evident freedom from the par.
Oxysm. #...s. 81
/ was not advised it could be contin.
ued in safety all night, and at the ex-
piratiOn Of fifteen minutes extinguished
the lamp. The children had been
whooping twenty times day. One Of
them did not even cough for twelve
hours, the other for thirty six.
Learning that the vaporization could
be continued day and night With more
rapid benefit, ! spilled it Tor I've nights
In their sleeping room. The spssms
ceased and they speedily recovered.
At that time au epidemic Of whooping
cough va, raging In my vicinity. I ID.
vised my neighbour Of this apparatus.
Many Of them were used and with tho
best results. II
believe tho vaporisegs md crssolsne
IRE now 70 be obtained from druseiss.
am confident It viii be found equally
Efficient in Oh throat and lung diseases.
Inhalation IL the true mode Of treat
ment. The apparatus Is nearly perfect
- an agent Tor deodoriing, dianiect-