Temperance prize essays / By Drs. Mussey and Lindsly.

Date:
1835
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Credit: Temperance prize essays / By Drs. Mussey and Lindsly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be preferred, if any be used, which exhaust the nervous power less than the intoxicating articles. In this connexion may be named the carbonate of ammonia, camphor, and some of the essential oils. In the collapse and prostration of - Cholera. cholera the spirit practice is now very generally acknowledged to have been unfortunate. Indeed it would have been remarkable if an article which so strongly predisposes to this disease as alcoholic stimulus should have proved to be its best remedy. The evidence of the mischievous effects of spir- ituous drinks in cholera is too generally diffused to require its being introduced here in a formal manner. Ice, cold water, or even ice in small bits, swallowed at short intervals, may be more relied on for allaying the deadly nau- 4, epitity - Sea of cholera than any form of in- aftes asatieiies toxicating liquor. For the purpose of © restoring the strength in the debility which fol- lows acute disease, is alcohol necessary ? If the fever or inflammation have been early treated with the proper evacuants, and the pro- gress duly watched, and local determinations pre- vented or obviated, the debility which remains on the subsidence of the disease is easily removed The patient may be greatly reduced in strength, but when free from disease, his convalescence is rapid under the most simple treatment. But when the stimulant plan has been perseveringly pursued with a view to remove the disease, or the debility subsequent to it, how often if the constitution can resist the action both of the disease and the me- dicines, is the patient observed to linger for weeks, and perhaps months, before his health is re-esta-