Observations on cholera asiatica; its symptoms, mode of treatment, and prevention. With an appendix / Selected and arranged by Richard Phillips Jones.

  • Jones, Richard Phillips
Date:
1849
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    stages, with symptoms often of an opposite nature, and assuming a variety of forms, can he relieved by any one specific remedy ; hut careful use of ])reventive means, and special attention to the occurrence of premonitory symptoms, affords the most effectual protection from this frightful scourge. Should, however, the diarrhaea be attended with griping pain, give half an ounce to one ounce of castor oil, with 10 or 20 drops of laudanum in ])eppermint water, or 2 or 3 tea spoonsful of tinc- ture of rhubarb with the laudanum. 1 shall now proceed to collate the most approved methods of treatment, and which have most re- cently been recommended in severe stages of the disease. In the pamphlet published by Dr. Adair Crawford, and sanctioned by the ^letropolitan the places in which Typhus is to be found, and from which it is rarely if ever absent, and which it occasionally deci- mates, are the neglected and filthy parts of it, the parts un- visited by the scavanger, without sewers and a due regulated supply of water for the purpose of surface cleansing and domestic use. The track of 'J'yphus is every where marked by the extent of this domain of filth. In 1832 this was equally the domain of Cholera.”—I7f/e Second Xofi/ication, Uencrnl Board of Health, Gwydlr House, Oct. 31, 1848.