214 DYSENTERY. 



should be taken daily, more especially when ex- 

 posed to the dew, rain, night-air, or the malaria 

 engendered by winds blowing over swampy 

 ground or decomposed vegetation. 



My experience leads me to believe 

 Dysentery. 



that the only cure for dysentery is im- 

 mediate removal out of tropical climates ; other- 

 wise, it almost always ends fatally. 



Upon the first symptoms, take an 

 Treatment. 



emetic of ipecacuanha, and in the 



morning a mild aperient (as 15 grains of rhubarb 

 and 2 grains of calomel) ; on the following day 

 2 grains of ipecacuanha, with a quarter of a grain 

 of opium, three or four times within the twenty- 

 four hours, eating nothing but plain boiled rice 

 sweetened with sugar. 



If this does not stop the complaint, and the 

 tenesmus gives the well-known sign of decided dy- 

 sentery, a dose of 20 grains of calomel with a quar- 

 ter-grain of opium should be taken, which must 

 be followed next morning with a dose of castor 

 oil. This generally cuts the matter short ; but it 



