Epidemic Cholera; Its Mission and Mystery, Haunts and Havocs, Pathology and Treatment (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1866. Excerpt: ... X. TREATMENT. Salt, mustard, vinegar and oil, pepper, red and black, everything the casters afford, except tomato catsup and Jockey-club sauce--as if Cholera were chicken salad; wine, whisky, rum, and brandy, Apple Jack and Old Tom--everything the decanters, and nothing that the pitcher, supplies; rhubarb, senna, and castor-oil; scammony, colocynth, jalap and aloes; ipecacuanha, tartar-emetic, and sulphate of zinc; calomel in all stages and in doses of all sizes, from the homoeopathic mite to the allopathic monstrosity; opium in all its forms, and by every imaginable mode of administration; ether, camphor, musk, castor, aromatic and stimulating tinctures; essential oils of peppermint, clove, and cinnamon; extracts of hyoscyamus and cicuta, prussic acid, subnitrate of bismuth, colchicum, cinchona, serpentaria and capsicum; oil of vitriol, spirits of turpentine, and for all we know, petroleum; brandy injections, soap injections, tobacco injections, warm drinks and ice water; tepid baths, cold baths, hot baths, vapor baths, hot sand, friction with irritating rubefacients, blisters, scalding water, mineral acids, red hot irons, cold water pumped on the spine and the pit of the stomach, bleeding, cupping, leeching, oxygen gas, laughin gas, injections of saline solutions into the veins, electricity, galvanism, chloroform, clairvoyance, hasheesh, inhalation, Perry's Pain-killer, Radway's Ready Relief, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing.Syrup, Phalon's Night-blooming Cereus, Constitution Life Syrup, and Mrs. Allen's Hair Restorer. For heterogeneousness and promiscuousness, and elaborate and complicated stupidity and nastiness, we know of nothing in the whole range of English literature with which to compare the run-mad list, unless it be Mr. Timothy Tickler's description of the spots on a steamboat ta...