The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-09-04
A SPECIFIC OF COFFEE.
A CORRESPONDENTS WRITES OF A
CHOLERA REMEDY USED.
Comments By Eminent Authorities
Cause and Cure" - wallace,
Belfast 1890.

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horror that clutches and kills with
unsparing grasp, may be, because
Of our ignorance is, nevertheless, a
cruel fate, with no redeeming trait,
or comforting compensation. While
death and sorrow are entering
many a humble home, perhaps /
shall be excused for calling atten-
ton to extracts from pamphlet
entitled Cholera, its cause and
cure" by Joseph Wallace LEX ct
Lux, Belfast, 1866.
After a graphic description Of
the symptoms he says 81 have now
come to the 5befife remedy, which is
Coffpa Cruda, or Tincture of Raw
Mocha Coffee prepared as in the
appendix. Adult dose, three to ten
drops in a teaspoonfull to table
spoonful of water every five min
utes, prolonging the intervals
gradually as amelioration sets in.
In the early stages Of cholera, when
purging, or purgiug and vomiting
has commenced for a short time,
three or four doses at five minute
intervals, have always found sufii-
cient to restore the bowels and
stomach to as perfectly a natural
state, as If there had not been the
slightest arrangement. Such cases
with me have never exceeded
twenty minutes. When rice water
excavations, GOODNESS of body and
spasms have set in, would give
ten drops at once, and three TO five
drops every FIVE minutes after, with
the addition of hand rubbing for the
cramps and GOODNESS. If the
patient has been allowed to pass
into the state of collapse, and when
every energy of the body and mind
has been Frustrated, the same
course of treatment will produce
like result, but | would advise the
dose of ten drops to be repeated
every five minutes till amelioration
takes place, and then three to five
drops after / would add hot APP
plications to extremities and sides,
hand rubbing as before. In any
case where the medicine cannot be
had, the best substitute is a cup of
strong, pure coffee, prepared in the
usual way, but 7oibh0m any
chicory being mixed with it. Let
this be promptly given, and
in the earlier stages of the disease
the cholera will be arrested prompt
ly, and in nearly all the very worst
cases it will succeed.
In cases where opium, etc, have
been given previously, l would
give MirD 6yQbS at once of coffee,
and repeat it in ten minutes or so,
and as amelioration takes place
three to yf0e drops every five min
utes after and proceed as in other
cases according to circumstances, as
before stated.
My formula for the preparation
of the coffee tincture is as follows
Steep one pound weight (avoir-
dupois) of we'll dried and pulverized
raw Mocha coffee in three and
one third pints Imperial measure)
of strong alcohol for two weeks.
Shake it we'll occasionally; filter
through blotting paper, and it is
ready for use.
For Asiatic cholera the dose of
| t;p ct,,ra If CofT,po ,uhich 7 couca;,a
to be the best, is form three to ten
minimS in little water, to be given
every fve minutes. This, if taken
when the disease breaks out, will,
with one or two doses completely
and effectually stop all cramps,
vomiting and purging, as well as
restore at once the heat of the Sur
face of the body that has been alb
stracted through the virulence
of the disease"
May l, sir venture, with great
Difference, to call the attention Of
the profession to the following
words from recent leading article
!, in one one of the best known and
most widely read Of medica
| journals:
The place of authority in medi
cal science is without doubt larg,
one," but medicine
like other departments of scienc,
does not encourage a blind sub
mission to authority, but rattle
impels her votaries to the daily &C
: emulation of fresh facts and tn,
. daily trial acheher these things be so
The true practitioner of medicin,
i must chiefly 'practise'-sufferini
+ humanity permits him no choice il
the matter-but he will observe
, test, accept. reject, and press to
i wards the goal of surer knowledg,
and higher art. lie soW as lille a
!, may be lean on authority, and trus
as much as possible to the dali,
and patient investigation Of tn,
laws and processes of nature"
n These pregnant words Ell
courage me to write, and educated
professional men will, l know
a pardon the liberty take in calling
attention to the subject matter o
this letter.
. The tincture of coffea treatmen
= is thus alluded to by an M. d. il
4 The HtraH Of Hfaih, February
; 1898: whether cholera be the re
|. suit Of the action of one or NOR,
Il microbes, is to us matte
n merely OF scientific curiosity
since we have in Mr.. Wallace
- remedy an absolute and unfailin
9 specific for this dreaded disease
,f and we know that with few drop
= we can cure even the most despel
a ate and apparently hopeless case
y eff0, int efjKeHnde.
Re am, sir, yours obediently
eI CAcoRTHRs ScRIBRNDI
a HONOLULU, Sept. 3, 1895.
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