Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1886 — The Ice-Bag in Cholera. [ARTICLE]

The Ice-Bag in Cholera.

Dr. Chapman, an English physician ■who has practiced for a number of years in Paris, but was formerly in India, where he had cholera to treat, has just published a Ixk k entitled “Cho era Curable.” He is the man who some time ago recommended the use of icebags for sickness, and has more recently tried the same method with cholera. He used it in ten cases, with a result of ten cures. The ice-bag is a triple rubber bag, about twenty or twenty-four inches in length, and about four inches wide. Each part is filled with fine pieces of ice, and it is applied to the back along the spinal column. Its application should be constant, so the ice must be changed from time to time. The vomiting was stopped by its use almost at once, whi’e there was a great diminution in the cramp. The patients warmed up, the pulse came hack, and all the symptoms gradually disappeared. *