The Warwickshire Herald. — 1891-02-26 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

CHINESE TREATMENT OF CHOLERA. • native newspaper in Shanghai lately published an article by a Chinese medical practitioner on the proper treatment of cholera, a disease specially fatal to Chinese. The writer notices seven symptoms of cholera—vomiting, diarrlacsa, low pulse, cold limbs, perspiration, spasms, and exhaustion. His practice is at once to order a prs• pared dose to be heated and taken warm to the extent of a good-sized tea-cupful. In this dose the main things are ginger, ginseng, Chinese cardamoms, and a sort of caraway seed. After this the patient receives atractylades alba, called pentu by the apothecaries, a medicine of which the Chinese think a gyeat deal as an aromatic tonic and stimulant. Theypse it in cases;of Profuse sweat, log and apoplexy, chronic dysentery, and rheu• matism. It belongs to the cynaracea among the species of which are found many plantii: .ard- I. Europe as fumishing useful stoMac..MC and febrifuge medicine!. If the disease progressed still into the Spasmodic state with numbness of the limbs he would use pceonia ark Jam' with foisitfa ratorarna, and a pepper wort, known to druggists by the name of sauthoxylast piperittiva. It is one of the commoner aromatic stimulants in China and Japan. To this he adds a cinnamon bark. To soothe the extraordinary derangement of the system he gives pig's liver mixed with brick dust from the inside of a furnace—a mixture known as "liver of the hiding dragon." To this are added two or three ounces of ginger. He notices as curious that the name of the disease does not occur in Chineal. literature before the middle of the 17th ce;:a and says that it came with the present d from Manchuria, spreading from the north sotlth.., ward. He remarks the use of the name" Mabchunin sickness" any of "the foreign cholera.' Chinese doctors appear, from what is bere said, to be fond of using mild remedies, whilii they avoid. those which are very powerful in their operation: as to the nature of the medicines, they appear, on the whole, much the same as our own.  The body of a man, supposed to be French, has been found on the foreshore of Deal. The body was in a large pool of blood. lo explanation of the mystery is yet forthcoming.  - - The Sultan of Johore was received by the Queen at Windsor Castle on Saturday afternoon. His Highness and his nephews, Princes Suleiman and Mohamed, were accompanied from town by Lord Knutsford, with whom, on their arrival at Windsor shortly after 3 o'clock, they drove in a royal carriage, preceded by an outrider, to the Palace, The Eastern visitors, who wore rich milits7 uniforms, attracted considerable attention on their way from the station. The Sultan and the Princes returned to London after the audioiceA telegram trotn nuenos Ayres states tnat the attempt upon General Roca's life was made on Thursday evening while ho was out driving. The bullet passed through the cushion of the carriage, and slightly grazed the General's spine. The General at once jumped from the vehicle, and seizing the would-be-murderer, a boy of 15, thrashed him with his cane. Although the youth was only a' few pates from the General when he fired, the wotind Inflicted is happily not of* serious character. Greg Indignation prevails among the inhabitants on account of the dastardly act, and numbers of people of all ranks have called at General Roca's residence congratulate him on his escape.