Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1884 — Camphor Drops a Cure. [ARTICLE]

Camphor Drops a Cure.

The follow in <r simnle remedy was issued liu handbill form by the Hibernia Printing Office, Diblin, Ireland, during the eevere visitation of the cholera li. 1336, and the means of saving thousands of lives. It was also used with valuable effect i4i 1848. and I would advise its use again should the epidemic visit our shores. In any case, however, no harm could be done by having it un the house during the com ng warm months. ‘Dissol ve one ounce of camphor in six ounces ot spirits of wine and give a small bottle of it to any intelligent per* son in your neighborhood who will undertake to administer it to his poor neighbors when they are seized with cholera or any of its symptoms, without deviating in the slightest degree from the following instruction. ‘When any person is seized with tbe symptoms of cholera, such as vomiting, purging, sudded weakness, coldness, cramps or spasms, do not give them brandy or whisky or any kiud of medicine whatever, but put them to bed at once, covering them warmly, but not overloading them with bed clothes, and as soon as you posiblycan let the patient take two drops (not more) of the camphor mixture on a little pounded sugar in a spoonful of cold or iced water. In five minutes after let him take a second dose of two drops in the same way. and in five minutes m re repeat the same thing. He is. then to wait ten or fifteen minutes to s :e whether or not there is a sense of returning warmth, with a disposition towards perspiration ana manifest decrease of sic ness, eramps, etc., etc., when, if neciesary be must take two drops: as before, and repeat the dose every five minutes until twelve or fifteen drops have been taken, la administering this remedy you must particularly observe that a. the patient takes anything of any sort or kind, ex-cept-cold or iced w ater, while the medicine is intended to operate, its whole efieet will be destroyed, for the least foreign meaicine neutralizes the camphor, which is given to check vomiting and to produce a free, warm perspiration. The use of cold or iced water is given on ad vice of the late celebrated and successful Dr. Piddock, of London, who always allowed his patients to drink cold or iced water, as it tends to promote tree perspiration, and also the abundant discharge of yellow bile.” The patient must not be allowed to rise and expose him or herself to the slightest degree of cold, and should nor be tonnented with baths, steamings or rubbing of any kind. but permitted to lie still, a« he will fail asleep when perspiration comes on, and after s me Amur* will, wiii f God's assistance, awake w,ell, '.hough weak ami languid and perhaps a little feverish, in which case he may get a dose, say a teaspoonful of Gregory’s powder or rhubarb and mag» nes;a, with a little peppermint water or weak sal volatile and water to waen it down, but must be kept quiet, taking only alittlesoup, broth, or gruel for a day or two Lord Pbusonby, writing to his brother, the Bishop of Derry, stated that to his own knowledge these camphor drops had proved to be a certain cure for cholera, both m France and Germahv, whenever taken in time, and the cure is generally effected before it is possible to procure a physiejau—that is, in less than Bn hour.—N- Y herald.