Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1885 — For Cholera and Diarrhoea. [ARTICLE]

For Cholera and Diarrhoea.

Dr. Wolf, commissioner of health of Chicago, says: In the majority of cases in the milder epidemics the disease is ushered in by <1 passive diarrhea from one to five days duration. In more severe forms the patient in apparent.perfect health passes, after a single dejection, into the stage of a well-defined cholera. — The active treatment of the premonitory diarrhea is of the most pressing necessity in all cases, and it is the universal experience of the profession that where this stage of the disease is properly managed, many cases of choler i are averted. Whatever else the person suffering from diarrhea in cholera days proposes to do, he should at once place himself at rest. Without this nothing may avail, and if he neglects this, he may readily pass into the full formed disease. Abstinence from all food, or at least except that of the blandest quality —as boiled rice—is desirable. A thick poultice of flax-seed meal or Indian cornmeal, spiced with mustard, and applied to the abdomen hot as can be borne, is useful. The following remedy I know to be helpful in the conditions above referred to: Take of aromatic sulphuric acid, 1 ounce; tincture of opium, 8 scruples; sirup of ginger, sufficient to make 4 ounces. Mix: Take one tablespoonful in a wine glass of water every two or three hours until diarrhea is checked.