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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 518 of 653with an extensive destruction of the epithelium of the mucousmembrane of the ileum ; the gall-bladder is found distended withbile. At all events, the anatomical lesions are not sufficient toaccount for the frightful rapidity of the development of cholerathe lesions of the intestinal epithelium certainly cannot be thecause of the profuse watery evacuations.Treatment. We will in the first place call attention in a fewremarks to the prophylactic treatment which can be arranged incholera more easily than in any other epidemic. We know that theexcrements of the patients are by far the most active vehicles ofthe contagium. Hence, it behooves us either to destroy this contagium in the excrements, or else, to remove it. For this reasonthe discharges should at once be mixed with Sulphate of Iron, andshould not be thrown into water-closets, but into deep ditches refrom inhabited dwellings. The soiled bed-linen is best cleansed bboiling it. In order to protect uninfected persons, they must beforbidden to visit the houses of the sick, and above all, the usethe water-closets must be absolutely prohibited. Nurses shouldnever remain with the patient too long at a time. The enactmentof further measures is the business of the health-authorities; alCholera Asiatica. 617sanitary measures must aim at this one object, to keep the excrements of cholera-patients remote from all contact with healthypersons. On the other hand, it is unnecessary and useless to tryprevent the spread of cholera by placing all cholera-patients inquarantine. If cholera were contagious, every physician wouldhave an attack of it. Among the precautionary measures whichit behooves each individual to observe, the following are the mosimportant : AlS much as possible a regular mode of living ; the uof simple and substantial nourishment ; the slightest possible deation from one's regular mode of living ; avoidance of all debilitating influences, such as excessive mental exertions, depressingemotions, etc., more particularly avoidance of the excessive usespirits. Whatever tends to excite diarrhoea, must be discarded.Persons must take care not to get chilled or overheated. Everydiarrhoea with which a person may be attacked, or with which hemay already be affected during an epidemic, should be carefullyattended to. The observance of these preventive rules is at allevents a much more efficient prophylactic than all the othervaunted preservatives which are almost always made up ofspirits. Good claret is the only kind of wine that can be safelyallowed as unhurtful. No reasonable person will deny the usefulness of suitable prophylactic means which everybody should employ in his own, and likewise advise in other families under thedirection of an enliglitened physician.The medicines which a good deal of clinical experience haspointed out as our best remedies for cholera, are not numerous ;view of the great uniformity which the leading symptoms presentin all epidemics, no great variety of remedial agents can be expected; from the practical stand-point, this must be looked upona great boon to the physician. Our remedies the eflicacy of whichhas been corroborated by trials, are : Ipecacuanha^ Camphora^ Vertrum alburrty Cupnim, and Arsenicum; this list does not include tremedies for the typhoid condition remaining after cholera.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt