The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-26
HOW FEELS TO HAVE oaoLBRA.
A New York Doctor Tells His Suffer
ings Under an Attack of the Disease.
From the Netc York Sun

A New York Doctor Tells His Suffer-
ings Under an Attack of the Disease.
FROM the Neto York Sun
DIR. G. A. Romero of l4S East Twenty
eighth street claims to have carried twenty
patients safely through attacks Of genuine
Asiatio cholera, and also has himself expe-
rienced the disease in its most severe form.
He is. one of the Oldest physicians in this
city, having practice of over thirty years
standing in this community, and through
his study add observations while in contact
with the disease his mode of treatment and
general instructions are Of special value and
Significance.
"During the year 1866" said the doctor,
81 attended sixteen patients suffering with
Asiatic cholera. Fourteen OF these were
locaEed in this city aud two in Cincinnati,
O. In the past ten years have successfully
treated four cases right in New York city,
l claim that there Is 10 inviolable rule for
tae treatment of a cholera patient. So
much depends upon the physical state of
the subject that a skillful physician will
vary the treatment to a greater or less de-
gree, according to his Judgment.
IF stricken with the malsdy, see ply
stefan at once. Do not attempt to alIay
your suffering by home doctoring. Do not
allow yourself to become panic-strickeu,
nor, on the other hand. should you laugh at
precautions deemed necessary in an emer-
gency Of this kind, Familiarity breeds con-
te upt' of death aud disease as we'll as other
evils, and as we have tecome more or less
familiar with reports from the pest ships
down the bay, there is perhaps as much
danger OF the spread of the disease, should
it gain O foothold, as from the lack of Sc
robustness with which many regard it. II
you are attacked with symptoms of the
disease while on the street, go to the nearest
hos ital or ask to be taken there.
Among the methods by means of which |
have successfully treated twenty patients is
the following: Give one drop of carbolic
acid and two or three of Dismuth in mucil-
age at intervals OF twenty minutes until the
vomiting IS checked. Taeu endeavor to
check tue dlarrheal discharge by means of
astr1 gents. Sometimes a preparation of
opium or lead is very effective. An appli-
cation OF hot water tiles will prevent
rig dlty. If the diarrhea continues and
becomes excessive administer one-sixth of q
grain of morphine and l-120 of grain Of
atrophia III fifteen ninims of distilled
water; meanwhile feed the patient with
cracked ice cont nually to allay the fever.
Sometimes a rectal Injection If laudanum
aud weak starch is most effective in gradu-
ally stopping diarrheal discharge.
after having treated sixteen patients
successfully In this manner | was myself
taken GOWN with the malady My symp-
toms commenced with a rice water dis
charge, continuing for hours. Then fol-
lowed severe cramps, accompanied by pro-
fuse vomiting. The cramps In my legs and
contractions of the muscles OF the body
we're something terrible. similar, imagine,
to the effect produced on a man being
shocked by electricity. ThIolgh all this
never lost Consciousness, tut IA feeling of
complete indifference overcGme me. l did
not care whether lived or died. This feel
0f MT tar ~ al
attack of genuine cholera. The first symp-
toms of the disease developed at o'clock,
and the diarrhea continued for six hours,
during which ii lie the discharge amounted