Government regulations for the prevention of cholera : also instructions prepared by the Edinburgh Board of Health and approved of by the Royal College of Physicians.

Date:
1848
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    ture of cinnamon, or tincture of ginger, diluted with a tablespoonful of water, or, in the want of these, a little warm brandy and water—and avoid, at the same time, all cold drinks, or much drink of any kind. N.B.—Half the above doses for young persons about fourteen ; and one-fourth for children about five. Opium laudanum, and morphia, not to be given to very younn' children without medical advice. 2. To correct a liability to costiveness. For this pur- pose, saline purgatives, such as Epsom-salts, Glauber's salt and effervescing powders, and strong purgatives of all kinds, or large doses of any purgatives, should not be used during the prevalence of cholera, unless under medi- cal advice-but only such mild laxatives as castor-oil, Gregorys mixture, the lenitive electuary, compound rhubarb pills, colocynth and henbane pills, or any other medicine known by experience to act mildly. And any undue effects accidentally produced by such medicines, should be counteracted by opium, laudanum, or morphia, as above. '■ VI. To attend also promptly to attacks of sickness and vomiting which sometimes precede the epidemic, and which, after the stomach has been once cleared out, may be treated by the same remedies as those directed for looseness of the bowels. At the same meeting, the following resolutions were adopted unanimously:— 1. That it is not advisable to remove cholera patients from tbe.r own houses, if it be possible to command ad- vantageously the means of treating them there ; but that according to experience in the former epidemic, a large proportion of cases must occur in Edinburgh among the lowest population, inhabiting apartments in which it is impossible to treat the sick for want of proper beds, bed- ding, fires, and other means of heating the body, besides other necessary medical resources. j. ucs [This resolution is called for in consequence of the con- demnation of hospitals, contained in the directions of the London Hoard of Health, being inapplicable in Kdinbura i where the population chiefly liable lo cholera is, in gene^^^^^^ absolute y destitute of all the appliances neces ary to ren- der medical treatment available.] ^^^saiy lo ren '•2. That on the occasion of the former epidemic, seri- ous injury was in many cases caused in this city by the