The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-10-02
A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE
CHEROT TREATMENT.
HINTS AND CRITICISMS.
confined from last reeh'.)
After Preparation.

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removed, leaving, if the weather he
warm, but n sheet on tie patient.
The feet, however, should be well
covered with a quilt or blanket. Be
particular, however, to maintain n
very moist skin 50 long as the fever i
lasts-tilis is of paramount impor-
lance. The room should be freely
ventilated, taking precaution t. guard
against allowing Il current of air.
Dr. cold or damp air TO %sudnenly lower
the temperature of the surface of the
patients body. An even temperature
should be kept up in the room.
And here we come to another part
Of the Chefot treatment which has
been speared with the shaft of profess
sional ridicule. The statement that
1.-THE fever lasts from twenty to forty
hours, usually; sometimes though
rarely from sixty to eighty hours" is
alleged to be contrary to the observa-
ton of the most intelligent and faith
full special professional students of the
disease, and the assertion is calcula-
ted to gravely deceive the nOn-profes-
sional and do much harm. The fever
stage of the disease is much longer
than twenty to forty hours. and sixty
to eighty hours, which the Cher0t
treatment ~pronounces to be the excep-
ton. is nearer the rule.
1t has been said that a good nurse
is better than forty doctors. Do not
let visitors disturb aud disquiet the
patient by talking to him, or by keep
ing IN a murmur of talk in an adioin-
ing room, or, as has been said, by
sitting around his bed dressed up as
if for a funeral. Ifiyou are required
to speak to the patient or to answer
his questions, do SO with a pleasant
voice and in a cheerful manner. Strive
to enliven him and to cheer him up.
A New Orleans physician once
said that the black.spotted tongue
mentioned in the Cherot treatment as
occurring Soften, strikes the most
experienced physician as almost a
novelty. In nearly thirty years
experience in New Orleans he has
never seer it.
When the Ferer Ceases.
Section " of the Cherot treatment
in its published form would warrant
abe Inference that the fever subsidies
at the end of about twenty houIs.
Unless the observations of experienced
physicians are to be absolutely dis
regarded as uDtrustworthy, there may
be at the end of that time, a decided
abatement in the severity of the
symptoms. in fact all the symptoms
may subside, hut there still remains
considerable fever. An exception to
the rule of almost seventy-two hours
might occur, but it has been asserted.
that the most experienced physician
has most probably not seen such a
thing III n hundred cases OF the
disease.
We now reach that part Of the
Cherot treatment that has been the
most bitterly assailed, and severely
condemned by members of the medi-
cal profession. The instructions in
relation to the administration of
mama, SIENNA and other purgatives as
soon as the fever has subsidized, consti-
tute a point in the Cherot treatment
which has been animadverted upon in
the following sarcastic terms "TLere
is, so far as medical men know, no
acute disease that Sc profoundly
attacks the nervous system, and so
rapidly exlausts as genuine yellow
fever. In epidemics, it is IN hourly
observation, that a seventy two hours
paroxysm, so utterly brushes the
strongest man, that he can scarcely
turn over in his bed, and the action of
his heart will drop in a few hours
to fifty feeble pulsations in the minute
And minute Investigations in the
pathology Of this disease nov teaches
that from the earliest moment of the
attack of the disease, the tissues of
the heart (Which is a hollow %vesselj
undergo active degeneration.
Bold, superlatirely bold, then is the
man who will rush into print to advise
his fellowmen to purge yellow fever
patients after the disease is declining,
and the patient may be really said to
be making his first natural step to-
wards recovery. just when the ply
stefan stops medication, and carefully
stimulates or feeds his patient.
To give a mild purgative in the
incipiency of an attack, simply to
clear the patient of all crude material
is reasonable TO purge when there is
nothing to remove, and to purge with
s%alines, thus detracting from the al
ready impoverished blood is mad
ness"
A medicine in which DR.. Cberot
seems to have had the Utmost conf
dence as a remedial agent is the
decnction of cinchona rubra or what
is Familiarity know as red Peruvian
bark. 1t is ranked at tho head of that
class of medicines tLat are known as
tonics. The bark should be judicious
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