The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-10-02

smarter uOSe. anu does not "ccasioH
fatulence. 1t should be administered
in tepid water or milk, and should he
thoroughly triturated so as to render
the mixture Uniform. 1t is mixed with
"A small cupful OF water.
Quinine may be given in small
quantities as indicated and at the time
mentioned in the Cilerot treatment.
but it must never be given while the
fever is on.
Suppression Of Urine.
Not IT, lengthec this paper beyond
reasonable limits, ] pass to that
part of the Cherot treatment which
has reference to suppression or reten-
ton of urine. According to DR..
Brickell who was very successful in
his treatment of yellow fever, the
kidneys, after thirty, forty or fifty
hours are apt to be at fault. When
he found that the urine was getting
scanty, it was his practice to give cool
tea of asparagus 90, OF the juice of
water melon. There are good nurses
who, in a case of suppression OF urine,
give watermelon seed tea freely
half a ~teacupful every hour.
If the pumpkin seed tea resorted to
IN the Cherot treatment should fail to
secure the desired results, it would be
advisable to send for a physician.
There are more effective d~iuretics
kCOwn to u medical a Besides if
it be a case of retention of urine the
intelligent physician passes the cathe-
ter, and relieves his patient in three
minutes.
For the sections relating Vomiting
and Gangrene, the reader may consult
the Cherot treatment as published 10
the Sentinel"
Here it may not be amiss to call
attention to the fact that physicians
hold that gangrene Of tissue is death
to that tissue, and when tissue dies, it
must like the dead leaf of a tree,
drop."ff. And the question has been
asked "'has any M ever seen the
inside of The mouth Of a yellow fever
patient drop out rotten -deadP
Passing over Especial Observation"
in the Cllerot treatment. | come o
to Sec. Nj entitled "Important Re-
marks
Should the patient throw up the
medicine o r luiDine that he has taken,
the dose must at once be repeated.
Should there be considerable nausea
or sickness of the stomach, advise the
patient to try and refrain from vomit-
ing. To allay nausea, apply for q
few minutes a mustard plaster to the
pit of the stomach.
Ac.n,Iip, - ~, C,,o,ot . tl,aro
has been mismanagement in the
manner of dealing with the disease,
vomiting and other serious symptoms
usually occur on the third or fourth
day. 1t has been said that the crisis
III the disease is passed after the fifth
day-tlie greatest danger being gener-
ally between tue fourth and the fifth
day.
| In No. 5 Of paragraph 6 of Section
TX of the Cher0t treatment, we are
told that a relapse in yellow fever may
be caused by lying in bed too long.
This statement also has been critiZed
by experienced physicians, who claim
that, from their personal experience,
relapses often occur as the result OF
rising too And in support of the
correctness Of snch views, | quote DR..
Bricktll who says that "when the
fever goes. the patient must be more
than eve quiet. The pulse is apt to
drop very low, ven to As or so in the
minute with cool skin. The patient
feels we'll, but to sit or stand is death.
He should lie fiat until all is again
NATURAL
For the cautions given, and the
precautions to be taken during the
convalescent stage, the reader will
consult the Cherot treatment. During
convalescence, it was the practice of
d.. Cherot to give barly water.
Barley water which is much employed
as nutritive drink in febrile COM
plants, is prepared in this way: Take
(Pearl) barley tro ounces; water four
pints and a halt. First wash away,
with cold water, the extraneous mat
tiers which adhere to the barley !;
then pour upon it a half pint of the
water, and boil it for a short time.
Having thrown away this water, pour
the remainder boiling hot upon the
barley then boil down to two pints,
and strain.
THE Diet.
As the fever subsidies, it is usually
the practice to give chicken broth or
beef tea regularly every two hours
n or two tablespoonsful at a dose.
Some physicians give at night a milk
punch. made with brandy, in the same
doses. A physician, during the cpl
demic in Memphis found a little fresh
buttermilk very grateful. The next
day, lie gave his patients chicken
broth, beef tea, soft boiled eggs and
milk punch. Solid food will do harm