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meat, thickened with bread-crumbs, oat-mea\, or barley. The strictest atten- 

 tion must be given to cleanliness, and the linen changed frequently. If the 

 stomach be very irritable and the vomiting violent, give the following prepara- 

 tion : Powdered rhubarb, 20 grains; powdered saleratus, 20 grains; powdered 

 peppermint, 1 tea-spoonful; laudanum, 15 drops; brandy, 1 table-spoonful; boil- 

 ing water, 1 gill. Mix. Sweeten with loaf-sugar, and give a table-spoonful 

 every hour till the symptoms change. The bowels must be kept open as in all 

 fevers. For this purpose use the following: Ginger, 2 ounces; bayberry bark, 

 4 ounces; cayenne pepper, J^ ounce. 



Dose, a tea-spoonful in a little milk, with half a tea-spoonful of powdered 

 rhubarb every hour till it operates freely. 



Captain Jonas P. Levy, who has had an extensive experience with yellow 

 fever, states that he never knew a case of yellow fever terminate fatally under 

 the following treatment: 



Dissolve a table-spoonful of common salt in a wineglass of water; pour it 

 Into a tumbler, and add the juice of a whole lemon and 2 wineglasses of castor- 

 oil. An adult to take the whole at one dose. Then give a hot mustard foot- 

 bath, with a handful of salt in the water. Wrap the patient in blankets until 

 he perspires freely. Remove to the bed, and well wrap the patient's feet in the 

 blanket. Afterward apply mustard plasters to the abdomen, legs, and soles of 

 the feet. If the headache is very severe, they may be applied to the head and 

 temples. After the fever has been broken, taken 40 grains of quinine and 40 

 drops of elixir of vitriol to a quart of water. Give a wineglass full three 

 times a day. Barley-water, lemonade and ice-water may be used in modera- 

 tion. 



CHOLERA MORBUS.— This is a disease prevalent in warm weather. 

 From the great amount of bile secreted it is also called bilious cholera. 



Causes. — Excessive heat, sudden atmospheric changes, indigestible food, 

 unripe fruits. Dampness, wet feet and violent passions will also cause it. 



Symptoms.— Hhia disease begins with sickness and distress at the stomach, 

 succeeded by violent gripings, with vomiting of thin, dirty, yellowish, whitish, 

 or greenish fluid, with discharges from the bowels similar to that vomited. The 

 nausea and distress continue between the vomiting and purging, and the pain at 

 times is intense. The pulse is rapid, soon becoming small and feeble, the tongue 

 dry, the urine high-colored, and there is much thirst, though no drink can be 

 retained on the stomach. 



Treatment. — Apply a large mustard poultice over the stomach and liver. 

 Give large draughts of warm teas, by which means the stomach will be cleansed 

 of all its solid contents. Every half-hour give table-spoonful doses of the com- 

 pound powder of rhubarb and potassa, until the vomiting is checked. Warm 

 injections must be given frequently, and hot bricks applied to the feet, while 

 the whole body should be swathed in warm flannels. To get up a warmth of 

 the body and the stomach is, in fact, the most important thing in this disease. 

 Hot brandy, in which is a dose of cayenne, is excellent to quiet the vomitiag 



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