Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-06-30

Sure Cure For Cholera.

The rayages of the cholera in France
and in other parts of Europe are new be-
ginning to attract attention in this country
because the disease may find its way here.
In order that our readers may have rem
edy which is highly recommended, and
that our physicians may be in possession OF
the same, we publish the following for
for their benefit and the benefit of any one
who may be stricken with the disease.
Read it carefully and then put it away
where it can be had at a moments no
tice:
'"The following simple remedy was issued
in handbiI form by the Hibernia printing
office, Dublin, Ireland, during the severe
visitation of cholera in 1886, and was the
means of saving thousands of lives. 1t
was also used with valuable effect in lo4o,
and no harm can be done by having it in
the house during the coming warm
months:
Dissolve one ounce of camphor in SIX
ounces of spirits of wine and give a small
bottle of it to an intelligent person in your
| neighborhood who will undertake to ad-
| minister it to his poor neighbors when
| they are seized with cholera or any OF Its
| symptoms. without deviating in the slight
est degree from the following instruc-
| tions:
When any person is seized with symp-
| toms of cholera. such as vomiting, purging,
4 aoI5raca
spasms, do not give them brandy or whls-
key or any kind of medicine whatever, but
put them to bed at once, covering them
| warmly, but not overlooking them with
bed clothes, and as soon as you possibly
can let the patient take two drops (no'
| more) of the camphor mixture on little
pounded sugar in a spoonful of cold or iced
water. In five minutes after let him take
| the second dose of two drops in the same
| vay, and in five minutes more repeat the
| same thing. He is then to wait ten or ht-
| teen minutes to see whether or not there
| is sense Of returning warmth, with DIS
| position toward PRECIPITATION and manifest
| decrease of sickness, cramps, &C., when II
necessary, he must take two drops as be-
| fore. and repeat the dose every tlve MN
| utes until twelve or fourteen drops nave
| been taken. In administering this remedy
YOU must particularly Observe that if the
patient takes anything of any kind, except
| cold or iced water while the medicine Is IN
1 tended to operate, its whole effect VIII De
destroyed, for the least foreign medicine
| neutralizes the camphor, which is gwen TO
| check vomiting and to produce a warm,
| free perspiration. The use of cold or leed
water is on the advice of the late celebra-
TED ard successful DR.. Piddock, OF Lon
don who always allowed his patients to
drink cold or iced water, as it tends to pro-
mote free perspiration, and also the abund-
ant discharge of yellow biles.
The patient must not be allowed to rlse
and expose him or herself to the slightest
degree of cold an should not be torment
ed with baths, steamings or rubbing OF any
kind, but permitted to lie still, as he Will
fall as leep when perspiration comes on,
and after some hours will, with Gods as
sistance, awake well, though weak and
languid and perhaps little feVerish: in
which case he might get dose, say tea
spoonful of Gregory's powder or rhubarb
or magnesis, with little peppermint wa
ter or weak salvolatile and water to wash
it down, but must be kept quiet, taking
only little soup, broth or Cruel for day
or two.
Lord Ponsonby, writing to the bishop of
Derry, stated that to his own knowledge
these camphor drops had proved to be GER
tain cure for cholera, both in France and
Germany, whenever taken in time, and the
cure is generally effected before it is posi-
bic to procure physlcian-that is in less
than an hour.