8 DR. CEASE'S RECIPES. 



CHOLERA.— This disease is often attended by vomiting and purging, 

 with cramps in various parts of the body, It first attracted notice as a 

 wide-spreading and fatal epidemic, in the year 1817, when it appeared at 

 at Jessore, in Bengal; and after ravaging the Continent and Isles of Asia, 

 and spreading to China, it continued its destructive course westward through 

 Germany and the Russian Empire, till il at length reached the British 

 Islands in 1831. After committing frightful ravages, the disease disappeared 

 from England in the end of 1833; but it reappeared in 1849, and carried 

 off 15,000 people in London alone, and about 80,000 in the whole kingdom. 

 In 1853 and 1854 the disease again caused a terrible mortality, upwards of 6,000 

 deaths having occurred in London alone during the first ten weeks of the epi- 

 demic which occurred in the latter year. 



Symptoms. — The attack of the disease is sometimes quite sudden; at other 

 times, there are precursory symptoms, of which the duration varies from a few 

 hours to three or four days. There is a sense of general uneasiness and oppres- 

 sion, increased sensibility, not unlike a delusive feeling of high health and 

 animation; pains about the navel; sometimes tremors and debility. The person 

 is affected with derangement of the alimentary canal, more or less severe, indi 

 cated by sickness and vomiting, flatulent noises in the bowels, and frequent 

 loose, but natural stools; these symptoms being accompanied or succeeded by 

 thirst, headache, languors, and cramps or twitches in the limbs, breast, and 

 other parts of the body. Such derangements often occur after some irregu- 

 larity to which the patient has not been accustomed, as a luxurious meal, an 

 indulgence in wine, spirits, beer, or porter, the eating of pastry, or other indi' 

 gestible food; or after being exposed to the night-air, or to cold and damp. In 

 ordinary seasons, these ailments might be left to nature, or carried off by a 

 gentle laxative. But in seasons and districts where cholera prevails or is ex- 

 pected, no person, through fear of being thought whimsical, should neglect 

 even very slight uneasiness, if the alarm be a false one, little harm is done; 

 but if there be real danger to follow, it is of unspeakable consequence to have 

 a medical man on the watch, to apply the remedies before the strength fails, 

 and before the second stage, or that of collapse, comes on. Remedy, pages 

 60, 127, 128, 139, 141, 236. 



CHOLERA INFANTUM.— See Symptoms, page 226. Remedy, 

 page 226. 



CHOLERA MORBUS.— See Symptoms, page 225. Remedy, page 

 226. 



CXHjIC.— Symptoms:— A. painful sensation spreading over the belly, and 

 accompanied by a feeling of twisting or wringing at the navel. It is owing to 

 spasms acting on the intestines themselves; and very frequently the skin and 

 muscles of the belly are also drawn inwards and spasmodically contracted. 

 These pains are very violent, unlike the transient gripings that occur in other 

 affections of the bowels; and costiveness is a general attendant Vomiting is 

 also present; any thing taken in the mouth is apt to be rejected, and bile is 

 thrown up 



