The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-08-07

OF the patient or the severity of the
disease. The diarrhea of small chill
dren, which is caused by teething, is
also to be included among the ordi-
nary cases of it, as the management
OF the n is the same.
PREvENTIvEs.
Much can be done to prevent the
occurrence of this very common all
ment. The diet during the hot
months should be plain and simple;
avoid unrlpe fruit, half-cooked vege-
tables, overheating the body, too sud-
den cooling of the body, ice water or
iced drinks of any kind, excessive ex-
haustion, mental excitement and i'm
pure drinking water. For infants
breast milk is the best food in exist
ence, and the very best preventive of
bowel difficulties in infants is plenty
of milk of a healthy woman. That is,
indeed, fortunate child who has for
the first year and a half vigorous
mother who is able and willing to
nourish it entirely on breast milk.
In cases where this is impossible
great care should be taken in the Sc
lection of fresh milk from healthy
COWS or goats. Children should have
country air during the hot months or
be taken to the country, when posi-
BILE, after being taken sick.
TREATMENT.
The medicine upon which I rely in all
stages, forms, and seventies ofdiarrhea
in children or grown up people is Peru
ma. use it as a medicine to be taken
into the stomach, as an injection into
the lower bowel, and as an application
over the bowels.
The treatment for an adult taken
with diarrhea is to inject into the
bowels one quart of warm water to
which two tablespoons of Pe-ru-na has
been added. This is to be repeated in
one hour. Twenty.four hours after
this is to be repeated, and 80 on each
day until the discharge ceases, using
two injections each time an hour
apart. Children under twelve years of
age one pint of warm water, to which
one tablespoonful of Pe-ru-na has been
added, used as an injection exactly in
the same manner as above directed.
For children under five years of age
the quantity of water should be one
half pint, and add one teaspoonful of
Pe-ru-na. Half this amount is suf-
ficient for infants but should be used
in every particular the same, viz, two
injections an hour apart each day. At
the same time tablespoonful of Pc
ru-na should be taken by adults every
two hours. Children under twelve
half tablespoonful; children under
five one teaspoonful, and infants
under two years from twenty to thirty
drops in sweetened water two hours
apart. For infantile diarrhea or chol-
era infantum apply flannel cloths
saturated with heated Pe-ru-na over
abdomen, as directed on page ID of
ellis of Life" (Which see for other de-
tails of this treatment) During a
long practice in diarrhea, cholera in
fantum and chronic diarrhea, l have
u6NcI ulcI ~ CdSG llltU GLlo OlOdUlllOuU
did not promptly cure. Where this
treatment is begun at the first attack
of cholera infantum it never fails to
cure in few days.
Cases of cholera infantum, where
the ordinary treatment has entirely
failed to cure and they are given up
to die, are, almost without exception,
cured by Pe-ru-na, but the treatment
has to be continued longer. Very old,
chronic cases of diarrhea Chose &C.
quired during the wary must continue
this treatment few weeks, and if fol-
lowed with diligence there will not be
single failure. The acute diarrhea
of adults is cured in from two to five
days without exception. In a prac-
tice of thirty-fve years I have not lost
a single case of diarrhea or cholera
infantum, and whenever l hear of a
death from either l cannot suppress
the belief that this treatment would
have prevented it.
DR.. Hartman's address is Colum-
bus, o.
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