Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-09-08
THE IMPENDING CHOLERA.
What to do in Case il COmeS-An Old
MissiOnary's Prescriptions.

MlsSiOnary'S Prescriptions.
In the Independent of July 81 there
is an interesting article on the cholera
from an anglo" Indian Chaplain who
has passed through five cholera epi
denies in India. | have passed through
the same number in Turkey, and in
closer hand to hand contact with it,
On some points my experiences were
so different from his that, considering
it may become practical question to
us all, will state them
1. never succeeded we'll with cam.
phor alone, which he so strongly recon-.
mends. / tried it repeatedly in various
ways. 1t was not sufficiently efficaci.
GUS to meet a foe so powerful. The
cholera in India may have been of a
milder type.
2. The writer says the antecedent di-
arrhea is not the cholera. 1t is the
cholera just as much as the first fall of
rain is part of the torrential shower.
1t is not yet the rice water discharge,
so characteristic of the exhausting at
tack but let it alone for a few hours,
it may be whole day, and you will
find how suddenly it will change and
your strength is gone. A few hours
more, if nothing is done, strange in
difference to life and death ensues,
and you will die as though it were a
common every day occurrence.
To consider this antecedent, painless
and slight loosenesss as anything less
than the avant courier of the cholera
is to lose most precious time. Just
then you may check it with almost in
fallible certainty and thus save your
self from a dangerous attack. If cam
phor is used at all with success it is in
this state but the surest remedy is a
mixture of equal parts of laudanum,
tincture of rhubarb and spirits of ca.l-
phor-twenty-five or thirty drops ON a
lump of sugar. If diaThea supervenes
repeat the dose, with five drops addi-
tional. That has been tried in many
hundreds, may say many thousands,
of cases with perfect success.
Cholera makes its attacks in various
FORMS 1t sometimes strikes suddenly
with cramps and vomiting. An expe-
rienced English physician from India,
who had treated the cholera in every
form, recommended the following for
such cases. In the great cholera inva-
sion of 1865 it was found marvelously
successful: Equal parts by measure of
laudanum, tincture capsicum, tincture
cardamon seeds thirty or forty drops
in a little water, say two tablespoon
fuls. 1t is intensely burning, but it
will stop vomiting and cramps like
magic. Prepare two doses. If the
first is thrown off give the second soon
as the spasm ceases. 1t will never fail.
Your correspondent says that cholera
is never cured. That depends entirely
upon what state of the disease he re-
fers to. A patient in the state of col
lapse, pulse not apparent, tongue cold,
features drawn in, indifference great,
although intelligence is not touched, is
in most alarming state and will prob
ably die but he is not hopeless by any
means. You have battle 10 fight,
and must strip yourself to it. If after
an hours use of all the known means
you have gained nothing, you will have
to give it up OF give yourself up. An
hours work over cholera patient is
the most exhausting labor man can
perform but l have seen many such
recover. Men are living now who were
in such a state twenty seven years ago.
Never give up while there is life, unless
you perceive that sickening death odor
that tells you all is lost. Then retire,
wash up, change your clothes, take a
tonic and take a nap. You will suffer
no injury, and you may go at it again.
Don't handle the clothes from the
sick and dying. Immerse them in boil
ing water; don't wiring them with the
hands; hang them out in the open air
day or two, and after that they can
never affect those who wash them.
May God preserve us from all neces-
sity of such precaution.-Cyrus Ham
lin, D. D., in the Independent.