Asiatic Cholera: A treatise on its origin, pathology, treatment, and cureWhitney, Elijah
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Asiatic Cholera: A treatise on its origin, pathology, treatment, and cure
Whitney, Elijah
Cholera
Dr. Morrow observes, that "to fulfill the most prominent indication,
the production of an equilibrium in the circulation, and excitability,
the compound tincture of guaiac[VII.] may be given." This is prepared
by adding gum guaiacum, cinnamon and cloves--each, one ounce to a quart
of best brandy, and is administered in tea-spoonful doses in hot,
sweetened water and brandy, every fifteen or twenty minutes till relief
is obtained. As a general remedy, its exhibition is most salutary.
In some cases where excessive nausea is the most prominent symptom,
it may be advisable to administer an emetic to relieve the gastric
irritability, to equalize the circulation and check the spasms. For
this purpose, the acetous tincture of lobelia and sanguinaria,[VIII.]
with the addition of one-third spirituous tincture of aralia
spinosa,[IX.] is preferred. This is given in doses from a tea-spoonful
to a table-spoonful every ten minutes in warm catnip-tea, sweetened.
In very urgent cases, it may be given in larger doses and frequently
repeated.
In most cases, the saturated tincture of xanthoxylum fraxinifolium
bac. may be used with great advantage. It is a reliable, excellent and
prompt remedy. When given in the early stages, it will frequently
relieve in from ten to twenty minutes. In combination with the fluid
extract of rhubarb and potassa,[X.] it has generally proved very prompt
and efficient. In cases of partial collapse, when the patient is
suffering from severe cramps, Hunn's Antispasmodic Mixture[XI.] is an
excellent remedy. In cases of violent spasms, it has been administered
every ten minutes in doses of from one to two tea-spoonsful in hot
brandy-and-water sweetened, with great advantage, and it is peculiarly
applicable in such cases where there is not too great irritability of
the stomach. In many cases, camphor is very beneficially prepared, by
adding one drachm of camphorated spirits to a half-pint of cold water
and the mixture given in tea-spoonful doses every three or four minutes.
Dr. King states that in the early stage he has used very extensively
the following preparation:
Rx. Ox Gall, ounce j.
Capsicum, }
Gum Guaiac, } [=a][=a]., scruple iv.
Leptandrin, dram iv.--Mix.
This was given in doses of one grain, and repeated two or three times
a day. He had also succeeded in some cases with a mixture composed as
follows:
Rx. Sulphur Sub., grs. iv.
Gum Guaiac, grs. ij.
Charcoal, grs. ij.
Camphor, gr. j.
Opium, grs. ss.--Mix.
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