Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-08-09

bling brush, the constant ventilation of
all sleeping and living rooms, and i'm
mediate attention to all foul smells,
always important, are never more SO
than when cholera is lowering around.
8. The Ordinary rules of health
should be strictly observed in (a) clean
illness (b) moderation in all things;
(c) avoidance of all sources of cold and
indigestion. Every one ought to wash
from head to foot at least once week,
and the oftener body linen and bed
clothes are changed the better. Meyer
eat with unwashed hands, especially
when cases of diarrhea or cholera are
in the house. In the latter case some
disinfectant should be added to the wa.
ter before washing, and food should
never be eaten in the room with the
patient.
10. To minimize the danger of infec.
ton it is well to be moderate in all
things, particularly avoiding all ex-
cesses in drinking, in eating, or in ex-
ercise. Excess in drinking, sometimes
resorted to from a mistaken idea of
warding off the cholera, has the exactly
opposite effect. Spirits are useless as a
corrective of impure water. Excess in
eating, by disOrganizing the digestion,
predisposes to diseases of the digestive
orgads, of which cholera is the worst.
Eat well, but wisely, and avoid all un-
ripe fruit, indigestible or tainted food,
and everything that disagrees with you.
Excessive exercise is dangerous, by pro.
ducing exhaustion; so is prolonged
bathing. Everything that causes ex>
haustiOn is bad. AVOID all sudden
chills, especially when perspiring.
Flannels should be worn next the skin.
A flannel belt around the waist is
strongly recommended. Avoid draughts
and late hours, and always wear enough
clothes to keep the body warm, es-
pecially at night.
II. When cholera or diarrhea ex>
lists in the neighborhood of dairy farms
avoid milk coming from that district,
and if other milk cannot be converts
emily obtained, condensed milk is safer
than fresh milk from infected districts.
II. If from any source a case of
cholera should be developed in any To-
cality in Tennessee danger of its spread.
ing may be minimized by Cay immedi-
ate isolation of the patient, (b) COM
plete disinfectiOn and instant removal
of all excretions and other matters that
come from him. (c) burning or thor
ough disinfectiOn of all clothes, bedding,
etc., choleraic discharges.
10. Cholera secretions should be re-
garded as more dangerous than strych-
nine. The vessels into which they are
discharged should always contain car.
bolic acid or other powerful disinfect.
ants; they should be Immediately
emptied, and the priyy, water closet,
sink or drain down which their contents
are thrown, should be flushed at least
once day with carbolic acid and wa
ter, chloride of zinc, sulphate of iron,
or equally as effective disinfectants.
Do not spare the disinfectants, especi:
ally in the case Of privies and cesspools,
IA. All clothing. carpets, sheets
towels, etc., etc., which have come in
contact with cholera patient should
if possible be burned at once, On nc
account should they be sent to a public
laundry or washed in common witt
the clothing of others. If not burned
before they are sent put them in a tut
of boiling water mixed with carboli'
acid, and afterward have them, as wei
as the furniture, etc., thoroughly disin
fected by the free use of the fumes o
burning stick sulphur continued for a
least four consecutive hours.
IA. Do not be frightened. For on,
who dies of cholera in the worst year
two die every year of typhoid and SINH
lar preventable diseases. No one VIII
gets into panic gives himself chance
Doctors and nurses who are constantly