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DIARRHCEA. 



Causes. Indigestible food ; unripe fruits or fruits in excess ; 

 badly-cooked vegetables ; particular kinds of fish, as crabs, 

 prawns, oysters ; exposure to cold ; suppressed perspiration ; 

 worms ; liver disease, &c. 



Treatment. At the outset a teaspoonful of castor oil with 

 or without ten drops of laudanum or a teaspoonful of Gregory's 

 powder. If purging continues, take thirty drops of chlorodyne 

 or twenty drops of laudanum with a tablespoonful of brandy 

 or arrack in water, or a glass of port wine, repeating this dose 

 in three or four hours if necessary. Or the following mixture 

 may be used : Astringent Diarrhoea Mixture, Tincture of 

 catechu, four drams ; Tincture of rhubarb, two drams ; 

 laudanum, one dram ; prepared chalk, one dram ; and 

 peppermint water, three ounces. Mix. Dose, a tablespoonful 

 every three or four hours. Diet, arrow-root, sago, corn-flour, 

 toast, and tea. If much pain is complained of, apply mustard 

 poultices or hot fomentations or turpentine. 



CHOLERA. 



Symptoms. Rumbling in the stomach, copious stools, at 

 first more or less dark, then becoming lighter till they 

 resemble rice water, nausea and vomiting, followed soon after 

 by cramps in different parts of the body, cold, clammy skin, 

 sunken eyes, loss of voice, intense thirst, blueness of skin, and 

 coma. 



Treatment. In the early stage and before collapse has set 

 in, give thirty drops of chlorodyne or twenty drops laudanum, 

 with half a wineglassful of brandy or arrack, repeating this in 

 two or three hours, or the following may be kept always ready 

 for use : 



Cholera Mixture. Take of prepared chalk two drams, cin- 

 namon powder one dram, sugar half an ounce, tincture of 

 catechu one ounce, sal volatile two drams, chloric ether two 

 drams, laudanum two drams, and water six ounces. Mix. 

 Dose, a tablespoonful every two hours ; or the following 



