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
If, however, the diarrhoea be uncontrolled and vomiting ensue, the
recipe on page 189 will be found very efficient, and should be
perseveringly administered till relief is obtained. It is prepared
as follows: Chloroform, two drachms; spirits of camphor, one
drachm; essence of monarda (or horsemint), three drachms; tincture
of prickly-ash berries, two ounces; fluid extract of rhubarb and
potassa, four ounces--mix. Give from one-half to one table-spoonful
every half-hour, hour, or two hours, according to the urgency of the
symptoms and the stage of the disease. This remedy is well adapted to
every stage, and may be used in collapse as an injection, combined as
follows: Take of the above mixture _two table-spoonfuls_, and add to
it tincture of prickly-ash berries, _two table-spoonfuls_; laudanum
_ten drops_; warm water, _six table-spoonfuls_--mix, _and inject up the
bowel_. This injection should be repeated as often as required. In some
desperate cases it has been repeated many times and the patients saved.
Wherever the disease prevails, all discharges from cholera patients
should be promptly disinfected and disposed of. Bedding, linen,
water-closets, cesspools, etc., should be thoroughly disinfected and
renovated, so that no germ may remain to propagate the disease.
FORMULÆ
FOR SOME OF THE PREPARATIONS USED IN THE ABOVE RECIPES.
GREENHOW'S AROMATIC TINCTURE OF GUAIACUM.--Take of guaiacum, cloves
and cinnamon, each, in powder, _one ounce_; best brandy, _two pints_.
Macerate for fourteen days and filter.
Dose.--From a tea-spoonful to a table-spoonful, in sweetened water,
every fifteen or twenty minutes.--_Am. Dis._
COMPOUND CAJEPUT MIXTURE--HUNN'S DROPS.--Take of oils of cajeput,
cloves, peppermint, and anise, each, _one fluid ounce_; rectified
alcohol, _four ounces_. Dissolve the oils in the alcohol.
The ordinary dose is from ten drops to half a tea-spoonful; to be
given in simple syrup, mucilage of slippery-elm, or in hot brandy and
water _sweetened_.--_Am. Dis._
FLUID EXTRACT OF RHUBARB AND POTASSA.--Take of the root of the best
India rhubarb, in powder, and bicarbonate of potassa, of each, _one
ounce_; cassia or cinnamon, and golden seal, in powder, of each,
_half an ounce_; boiling water, one-half pint. Macerate the roots and
seeds for an hour; strain and dissolve the potassa in the strained
liquor when nearly cold, and add one gill best brandy; essence of
peppermint, one tea-spoonful, and refined sugar, _two ounces_.
Dose.--From one to two tea-spoonfuls as often as necessary.--_Am.
Dis_.
TINC. XANTHOXYLI, or Tincture of Prickly-ash Berries.--Take of
prickly-ash berries _eight ounces_; diluted alcohol, _two pints_.
Form into a tincture by maceration, or displacement, and make two
pints of tincture.
The ordinary dose is twenty or thirty drops. In cholera, from
a tea-spoonful to one or two table-spoonfuls, according to
circumstances.--_Am. Dis._
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