5668. Brown's Cholera Mixture

5668.       Brown's Cholera Mixture. Mix together 1 ounce essence of Jamaica ginger; 2 ounces each camphorated tincture of opium and aromatic spirits of ammonia; and 1 ounce spirits of camphor. Dose, a tea-spooonful every hour.

5669. Troth's Cholera Mixture

5669.    Troth's Cholera Mixture. Digest for 10 days 1 ounce each opium, camphor, oil of cloves, and African capsicums, in 1 pint Hoffman's anodyne (see No. 4749 (Compound Spirit of Ether)); administer 20 to 40 drops every 2 hours.

5670. Austrian Cholera Specific

5670. Austrian Cholera Specific. Take 20 grains sulphuric acid specific gravity 1.500; 15 grains each sugar and gum; distilled water sufficient to make the whole weigh exactly 1 ounce. 1 table-spoonful of the above mixture is to be taken in water on the first appearance of premonitory symptoms, followed by the free use of ice-cold water. A second dose 1/2 an hour after is generally sufficient to arrest the disease, but occasionally 4 or 5 doses are required. A table-spoonful in a pint of cold water may afterwards be drunk as often as desired. When collapse sets in, double doses are to be given, and repeated after every attack of vomiting, until the sickness and cramp abate. After which, the doses are to be repeated until 5 or 6 doses are retained by the stomach. Quiet sleep or drowsiness should not bo interfered with. The free use of cold water or acidulated water is to be allowed until perspiration sets in and the warmth of the body returns. The use of warm drinks, wine, spirits, etc., are to be carefully avoided as so much poison. The above was adopted by the Austrian Government in 1849, after 18 years' successful trial.

5671. Homoeopathic Cholera Preventive

5671. Homoeopathic Cholera Preventive. Dissolve 1 drachm camphor in 6 drachms rectified spirit, and preserve it in a well-corked bottle. Dose, 2 drops on a lump of sugar 2 or 3 times a day.

5672. Homoeopathic Cholera Remedy

5672. Homoeopathic Cholera Remedy. Repeat the dose of the mixture in foregoing receipt every 10 or 15 minutes, followed by draughts of ice-cold water until the symptoms abate.

5673. Use of Calomel in Cholera

5673.    Use of Calomel in Cholera. "When cholera is prevailing, a single large, thin, painless, weakening action of the bowels may be cholera begun, and the business man should start for home in a vehicle instantly, calling on his physician on his way, and take him home with him; or, if he cannot be found immediately, get into bed as soon as possible, dress up warm, eat ice if thirsty, bind a thick warm flannel tightly around the abdomen, and wait for his doctor's arrival. A physician should be called always on the instant of an attack, but when it is impossible to procure his services within an hour, 10 or 20 grains of calomel should bo taken in pill or powder, as a means of stopping the discharges, and of thus arresting the disease, until the physician arrives. Calomel is generally easy to be procured, will remain on the stomach, from its heaviness, when even cold water is ejected as soon as swallowed, and is the most certain of all medicines known to stimulate the liver to action, this want of action being the fundamental cause of the disease. (Hall.)