The Osceola times., 1884-08-30
PARIS AND CHOLERA.
A Now Remedy In vogue-Am.,,
Doctors In Paris.
Cor. London | Truth


Doctors In Paris.
Cor. London Truth.
Cholera certainly does not let tho..
on whom it lays hold down easy into ,bo
grave. The terrors of death do not ex.
list for those who live to ripe old aga
OF who die Of some wasting disease I'm,
in cholera there are what the French
term les afffes de la mort, so long az
vital energy exists, and when that he.
comes extinct the patient has bot One
wish-to be done with life as soon as
possible. The feeling that arises at this
stage is like the one produced BY severe
and long continued sea-sickness. Oneis
weak, stupid, giddy, convvlsed, and ey.
cry minute seems an eternity. Tn.
blood being of the consistency of cur.
rant jelly, the patient is everywhere SEN
sible of the cold hand of death. II is no
use trviug to breathe. Each inhalation
enables the microbes (which, il they a,e
not cause, are consequence ofthe
disease) to pullulate in veins and arter.
les. They are greedy of oxygen, although
were it to play freely on them it would
consume them like burning fire. Nos
trums and panaceas have not SO good q
chance here as in England and the
United States, unless recommended by
prince of science. Paul Bert favors
the protective system Of DR.. Burq This
is the philosophy Of his treatment: Salts
of copper poison the microbes which
swarm in human being attacked " tn
cholera or a zymotic disease. These
salts remain for some time in the system.
and particularly in the liver, and are
inDocuous unless taken in large doses.
The person whose liver is saturated with
copper may defy cholera. Burg protect
ed whole ward full of patients in hos
pital in which the wards directed by
other physicians were being decimated
by the Asiatic scourge. In 1866 he slyly
exposed a number Of artifcers in brass.
tUplONtu III WATCH idStDIltS HtdE 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 answ,r 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, 70
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 huinor. Dr.
Pratt (son-in.law of the famous DR.. Ma
rion SIMS, who bought the practice OF
DIR. Chepmell, and DR.. johnson are high.
ly esteemed as men and physicians by
their transatlantic compatrots and by
their French patients. Or. Jehn Chap
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 paL and advances prudently
Americans like innovation and are rapid
to perceive ability 1t is not, therefore
surprising that they flock to his office
, Dr. Chapman has an original way o.
treating cholera, as well as nervous dis
eases and sea-sickness, by the applica
ton Of ice to the spine. | believe in be
ing so treated when the fever Of life in
: Paris has overtaxed vital energy. Le
any one who feels limp and out of sort
90 to some hiily place where there ar,
woods to fill the air with oxygen, anc
there sit in sunny spot with narrow
bag Of ice on the spine. The chest will
expand, and the lungs put forth thei
power 10 inhale. II there be a mic. oh,
in the system $50 copiously is oxygen lie
I'M il must almost directly be burned up
The sense ofvitality is SO great that on
is under the Illusion OF being youthful
again. A gentle warmth pervades al
the body the sky looks blue, the tree
preener, one is more alive TO the exub
, Grant joy of the song-bird, to the bright
ness of the flowers, to the fragrance o
the country and If the coarsest far,
were served at the next meal SO swee
would il taste that ole would feel in
clined to say grace after meat in hearty
D 81 int. My advice to fashionable wo
men is to drop morphine and betak'
themselves in rural soituCe to the ic'
treatment