5652. Diarrhea

5652.    Diarrhea. The following excellent remarks on this disease are extracted from Dr. Hall's Journal of Health: Cholera is nothing more than exaggerated diarrhea. It may be well for travelers to know that the first, the most important, and the most indispensable item in the arrest and cure of looseness of the bowels, is absolute quietude on a bed; nature herself always prompts this by disinclining us to locomotion. The next thing is, to eat nothing but common rice, parched like coffee, and then boiled, and taken with a little salt and butter. Drink little or no liquid of any kind. Bits of ice may be eaten and swallowed at will. Every step taken in diarrhea, every spoonful of liquid, only aggravates the disease. If locomotion is compulsory, the misfortune of the necessity may be lessened by having a stout piece of woolen flannel bound tightly round the abdomen, so as to be doubled in front, and kept well in its place. In the practice of many years, we have never failed to notice a gratifying result to follow these observances.

5653. Velpeau's Remedy for Diarrhea and Cholera Morbus

5653.    Velpeau's Remedy for Diarrhea and Cholera Morbus. Take 1 ounce each tincture of opium, paregoric elixir, and tincture of rhubarb; 10 drachms essence of peppermint; and 6 drachms tincture of capsicum. This is the original receipt for this celebrated remedy. Dose for an adult, a teaspoonful in 1/2 a wine-glass sweetened water; and, if required, half a dose after each loose evacuation.

5654. Diarrhea Tincture

5654.    Diarrhea Tincture. Compound tincture of myrrh, 6 ounces; tincture of rhubarb, and spirits of lavender, of each 5 ounces; tincture of opium, 3 ounces; oils of anise and cinnamon, with gum camphor and tartaric acid, of each 1/3 ounce. Mix. Dose, 1 tea-spoonful in a little warm water sweetened with loaf sugar; repeat after each passage. This is a magic remedy.

5655. Chlorodyne Mixture

5655.     Chlorodyne Mixture. Shake together 21/2 fluid drachms each chlorodyne and rectified spirit; add 1 fluid ounce syrup, and shake again well; then add a little at a time, with brisk agitation, 4 fluid ounces distilled water and 3 fluid drachms mucilage. Dose, 1 to 2 table-spoonfuls in diarrhea, cholera, etc.. Shake well before using.

5656. Goddard's Diarrhea Remedy

5656.    Goddard's Diarrhea Remedy. Dr. Paul Goddard gives the following remedy: Take 1/2 ounce tincture of catechu, 2 drachms each tincture of opium and tincture of camphor, and 1 drachm aromatic spirits of ammonia. 40 drops every hour will afford speedy relief.

5657. Remedy for Diarrhea

5657.    Remedy for Diarrhea. Tincture of opium, spirits of camphor, essence of peppermint, ethereal tincture of capiscum, of each 1/2 ounce; syrup of kino, 1 ounce; neutralizing cordial, 2 ounces (see No. 5666 (Neutralizing Mixture)); brandy, 2 ounces. Mix. Dose, one table-spoonful, may be given every twenty minutes if the case is urgent. In dysentery give 1 table-spoonful 3 times a day. This is an excellent remedy.