The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-01
TREATMENT OF CHOLERA
Physicians Who Have Had Experience
with the Disease Give Their Views.
Many ofthe Wanted Remedies Declared Worth.
lsss-Salt, Soap and Water Found to Be
Eficaclous-NOtes of the Epidemic.

BERLIN, Sept. 31.-Professor Rumpf. of
the Eppendorf Hospital in Hamburg. has
reported his ex pcrience in the treatment Of
three thousand cholera patients In his in
stitution. He declares that all of the
various Wanted remedies are useless.
Among these he includes salol, creosote.
Tactic acid and hydro-chlorio acid. Sui
phuric acid he also found of NO avail. but
In mild cases the injection Of tannin was
successful. Professor Rumpf concludes
that oil methods aiming merely at the dis
Infection of the intcstines failed, and that
o remedy must be sought which removes
the cholera bacilli from the Intestines. He
mentions hot baths. hot coffee and tea,
wine, champagne and camphOr as useful in
critical cases. He adds that the injection
of q solution of m on salt cured % pee
cent. of the cases SO treated.
Prof. Klebs, of Zurich. who has been
treating patients In Hamburg with in
jections of o fluid obtained through the
culture of cholera baeilli, states that after
the injection of the fluid the temperature
Of the patient soon becomes normal, and
have recovered under this treatment.
In an interview Dr.. Elmer Lee. of Chica-
60, who has been treating cholera patients
in st. Petersburg, said: "My method of
treatment - ObSou Ou CoIuu1Ou 6cnBo. Il
simply apply to my patients the treatment
tina, DR.. Koch and other scientific men
would like to sec applied to houses. In
short / wash out the deadly stuff with
soap and water. AS you see. the whole
thing Is very sim pie, and. i think. ration
poison without weakening the pa
tient. i keep him we'll nourished mean
while to sustain his strength. In twenty
four out of twenty-seven cases have
had confided to me l have been able TO re-
port cures. To convince myself scientific
ally of the value of my method l should
like TO experiment on at least one hundred
more cases. i believe l Am on tho right
track, If we remove the causes of the dis
ease and cure the patients. The people |
Gus stages of cholera. The result of my
observations are embodied In q consular
report to the United States government
'Do you believe in the Koch theory that
bacillus Is the cause. not the effect. of
Asiatic choleraw
Il have not been able to convince myself
on that point yet" said DIR. Lee. "Nor. l
may add. have DR.. Nencke. professor Of
bacteriology at the Imperial Institute IA
81. Petersburg. and other Russian author.
tiles"
"Do you believe in the efficacy of anti
cholera inoculationp
81 should not like to speak too positive
w. was the reply, but | I'M disinclined
TO believe In It. In the first place you oan-
not exclude the causes of cholera by inoc-
~uistion. You ann close the mouth
through which they enter. consequently
you cannot keep them out of the stomach
and bowels. If tho poison is once In the
intestines 1t becomes subject to the same
laws as other materials. and will become
absorbed when it enters the blood. The
result lie blood poisoning. 1t seems unrea-
sonable to suppose TINT incubation can
materially influence tho normal laws of
physiology. The theory of incubation
against cholera Is opposed by physiological
reasoning"
"From what You say, incubation being
useless, suppose n person drinks infected
water, touches dirty clothes. etc., is he in
perili"
Not necessarily; it depends upon the
stomach"
How do you suppose the cholera is trsns-
mittedf"
81 do not know said DR.. Lee.