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
The compound cajeput mixture[XVIII.] is a very excellent and prompt
stimulant, and may be alternated with other remedies with good effect.
It is particularly useful in allaying violent cramps, and restoring
warmth to the body, and may be given in doses of one tea-spoonful every
ten or twenty minutes in mucilage, simple syrup, or, better still, in
hot brandy-and-water sweetened.
The aromatic tincture of guaiac[XIX.] will be found very useful in some
cases, and may be united with chloroform according to the following:
Rx. Chloroform, (sq.) dram ij.
Spirits Camphor, dram j.
Ol. Monarda, gts. v.
M. et adde--
Tinc. Guaiac. Arom., ounce iv.
M.
S.--From one-half to one tea-spoonful every half hour, or, if
necessary, in violent cases every twenty minutes, in a little sweetened
water. This may be alternated with some other remedy to great advantage.
Chloric ether has been with some a very favorite remedy, and, in
combination with other diffusive stimulants, may serve a good
purpose. So, too, the spirits of turpentine, and the rectified oil of
turpentine, have proved very beneficial, the former in combination,
the latter administered alone. These agents, however, can be rendered
more prompt and effective by combination. It is the promptness, the
instantaneous or electric action like that of oxygen, ozone, and
caloric that gives value to the combination, and renders it peculiarly
efficacious when it possesses the other peculiar properties required.
In the early stage, sulphuric acid, in the form of elixir vitriol, has
given very prompt relief, and is very highly recommended as a curative
agent in the treatment of this disease. The following formula presents
the mode of its exhibition:
Rx. Elixir Vitriol, ounce j.
Tinc. Xanthox. Frax. Bac. ounce ij.
Ess. Lemon, dram j.
M.--S.--Tea-spoonful in a gill of sweetened cold water every two or
three hours.
This recipe was used in the incipient stage quite extensively in the
epidemic of 1849, with decided advantage. It generally removed the
symptoms speedily, without any other treatment. In the more advanced
stage it was thought not so reliable as other means named above.
Dr. Fuller, of this city, advocates the use of sulphuric acid as
a prompt and efficient remedy, and affirms that according to his
experience, a great majority of cases may be cured by this mode of
treatment.
Dr. Cox, of England, has also spoken in its favor, and recommended
its use as an infallible remedy. The eclectic physicians are entitled
to the credit of its first introduction as a curative agent in the
treatment of the Asiatic cholera, combined with the tincture of
prickly-ash berries and the essence of lemon, as noticed above. In our
estimation it may be rendered more effective, combined according to the
following:
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