Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-16
TERMS: $500 PER YE bR.
PARIS AND CHOLERA.
A New Remedy in vogue-Amer,cap
Doctors In Paris.

New Remedy in vogue-Americ.p
| Doctors In Paris.
| Cor. London Truth.
Cholera certainly does not let tbose
ON whom it lays hold down easy into the
grave. The terrors of death do not ex-
LIST for those who live to a ripe old age.
or who die of some wasting disease but
In cholera there are what the French
term les afres de la mort, so long as
Vital energy exists, and when that be-
comes extinct the patient has but one
wlsh-to be done with life as soon 90
possible. The feeling that arises at this
stage is ike the one produced by severe
and long continued sea-sickness. Oneis
weak, stupid, giddy, convulsed, and ev-
cry minute seems an eternity. The
blood being of the consistency of Cur
rant jelly, the patient is everywhere sem
sible of the cold hand of death. It is no
use trying TO breathe. Each inhalation
enables the microbes (which, il they a1e
not cause, are a consequence of the
dlsease) to pullulate in veins and arter
les. Ihey are greedy ofoxygen, although
were 1t to play freely on them it would
consume them like burning fire. Nos
trums and panaceas have not SO good
chance here as in England and the
United States, unless recommended bv
prince of science. Paul Bert favors
tne protective system of DR.. Burq. This
Is the philosophy of his treatment: Salts
OF copper poison the microbes which
swarm IN human being attacked with
choiera or a zymotic disease. These
salts remain for some time in the system
and particularly in the liver, and are
lnnocuous unless taken in large doses.
The person whose liver is saturated with
copper may defy cholera. BURG protect
cd whole ward full of patients in hos
pltal In which the wards directed by
other physicians were being decimated
by the Asiatic scourge. In 1866 he slyly
exposed number of artifcers in brass.
employed in watch factories near Mont
beliard, to cholera. Not one of them
took it. Claude Bernard was converted
to his system after these tests.
French doctors do not, as have said.
generally answer nocturnal calls. and
those who are attached to the police sta
tions are young and inexperienced.
English and Americans should therefore
apply, if seized with cramps at night. TO
English or American practitioners.
Philadelphia can now boast of one of
the finest medical schools in the world
and the American doctor is observant'
not fussy, mas a good judgment and a
cool head. When he finds he must hum.
bug he humbugs with dry humor. DIR.
Pratt (son-in-law of the famous DIR. Ma
rion Sims, who bought the practice of
DR.. Chepmell, and Dr. johnson are high.
ly esteemed as men and physicians by
their transatlantic compatriots and by
their French patients. DR.. John Chan
man, the old friend of George Eliot. is a
link between England and America.
Though he pursues rev ideas and has a
philosophical intellect and intuition, he
is safe man and advances prudently.
RhiOiASahD iihC tiuONdtlOu anu are TaDlU
to perceive ability. 1t is not, therefore.
surprising that they flock to his "office."
DIR. Chapman has an original way of
treating cholera, as well as nervous dis
eases aid sea-sickness, by the applica.
tion Of ice to the spine. ! believe in be-
ing so treated when the fever of life in
Paris has overtaxed vital energy. Let
any one who feels limp and out of sorts
go to some hilly place where there are
woods to fill the air with oxygen, and
there sit in sunny spot with a narrow
bag of ice on the spine. The chest will
expand, and the lungs put forth their
power to inhale. II there be a micIobe
in the system (so copiously is oxygen let
I'M it must almost directly be burned up.
The sense ofvitality is so great that one
is under the illusion of being youthful
again. A gentle warmth pervades all
the body the sky looks blue, the trees
greener, one is more alive to the exub-
Grant joy of the song-bird, to the bright
ness of the flowers, to the fragrance of
the country and if the coarsest fare
were served at the next meal 30 sweet
would it taste that Que would feel in
clined to say grace after meat in hearty
spirit. My advice to fashionable wO-
men is to drop morphine and betake
in rural solitude to the ice
treatment.