+s *~~ 2.97. -- • *- a 3 ~ 3 - > ee>{& AND HERALD OF REFORMS, DEVOTED To #15 in Ing), phropit', amb #t £ah's "f £ift. VOL. XVI. NO. 2.] NEW YORK, AUGUST, 1853. [$1.00 A YEAR. P U B L I s B. R D B Y quency; the pains depart ; and by and by also the {bmitt-Curt & Hämljä. sweating terminates, and the patient is again as well, Fotolers an? We's, or nearly as well, as ever.” Such are the phenomena of a paroxysm in a well-marked case of ague, when it No. 131 Nassau Street, New York. Hear each Contributor presents freely his or her own Opinions, and is is not interfered with by curative measures. alone responsible for them. We do not necessarily endorse all that we print, but desire our readers to “Paovk ALL THINGs” and to “Hold The period that elapses between the termination of QI o 11 t c mt i G. Fast" only “The Good.” one paroxysm of ague and the commencement of anoth - er, is called an intermission ; the Warxx-Cure Essays, period that elapses . 25 | Portar, - - . 86 Ague between the beginning of one paroxysm and the be and Fever, - . 25 Water, . - - - . 36 Sea AGUE AND FEW ginning or Salt Water Bathing, .27 The Passage, . 36 ER: of the next is called an interval. Convulsions in Children, . 93 || Thr Morra, . 87 There are various types of ague: when ? ITS NATURE AND TREATMENT, the fit oc A Lecru } RE, . 38 w: : . 37 curs at about the same hour daily, it is called quo A. - } Medical Medi Reform, f • 28 - - - That Discussion * Resumed, .38 tidian ; when it occurs every second day, it is tertian ; PRAcrical Hyear-ray, ... 32 Diary of a New England Phy BY when every third day, that is, skipping two days An Interesting Case JOEL SHEw, M.D. be of Dys- sician, - - . 39 tween the attacks, it is called quartan. These are the pop". * | Liver Disease, shaking Palsy, . 40 three principal types of the disease. The tertian form . .33 “The Doctor Knows,” . 41 Thephenomena owning Up... • * of an attack of ague are usua is the most common. The paroxysms in the quotidian Indications Reviews, . 41 of : - . 38 Errors of Physicians, thing like the following: . 41 when the paroxysm is abo form are more apt to occur in the morning; in the to come ( on, the patient experiences a sense of debility, tertian, £ ase O p an ater, #| The water car. Alman", at about the middle of the day; and in the - . " - GsNERALITIEs, . Bite - . 42 uneasiness, or depression at the epigastrium; he is of the Rattlesnake, . 34 Mosquitoes, . 42 | quartan, towards evening. | weak, DixTErics, . languid, listless, yawns frequently, and often This disease may attack a person - - - at any time; but . 35 | To Coartsspondsxts, - . 42 it The says he desires to be let alone. Soon he begins is much more Ladies for Vegetarianism, 35 | Professional Matters, . 42 to be apt to do so in the autumn or the spring, - • Business Matters, . 43 chilly, first along the spine, and then over other than at other Worces From Home, . ** | TALx asp parts of seasons of the year; but most com. Topics, . 44 the body; the blood goes inward, and leaves the Extracts from Letters, . 36 { skin monly in the former. In the autumn, after vegetation Advent Isrxxxts, , 46 in that t condition represented as being like “goose has, for the most part, gone to its height, decompo. - flesh.” After the chill becomes more intense, he be sition goes on more CRowded OUT.—We trust that the interest and value of the rapidly, and hence the greater | gins to shiver; afterwards his teeth chatter, and this prevalence long articles we give in the present number, will compen of the disease at this season. y has been so severe in some cases as to knock out old sate for the want of such departments and articles as we The natural duration of ague it is not easy to deter. calomelized teeth- and to break even sound ones, have been compelled to defer, though some of them are it is mine. In most cases the patient suffering in this way “in said. The lips, face, ears, nails, &c., become type.” We would call special attention to Dr. Shew's blue, is obliged to remain in the midst of the cause of his dis excellent showing congestion of article on Ague and Fever. The space it occupies the internal organs; the pulse ease. If a certain number of ague patients could be re. could not have been more becomes feeble, but quick, and usefully filled. the respiration hurried moved wholly from the influence of the malarious and somewhat difficult, and pains PosTMASTERs are respectfully solicited to act as AGENTs for in the head, back poison, we should thus be enabled to form some idea and limbs are experienced. Urine this Journal. A liberal commission will be given. Should may be voided fre of the average duration of the disease. As we see it any quently, but it Postmaster decline the agency, the Publishers would is small in quantity and pale; the in the present state of things, it is observed sometimes feel obliged if he would bowels are torpid, and the refer them to a proper person to tongue dry and coated with to consist of a single paroxysm only; in other cases act in that capacity. a white fur. of a number, After and in some cases the disease resists all TEACHERs, ForroRs, CLERGYMEN the above symptoms have lasted for a time and others are also invited longer ordinary remedies for months, and even years. to obtain subscribers in the neighborhood or shorter, according to the case, the cold stage where they reside. Persons most liable.—The middle-aged Travelling Agents and Canvassers may obtain Certificates is gradually succeeded by the hot. “The face becomes are more subject to ague, from the Publishers, on presenting suitable recommenda red and turgid; the general surface hot,"pungent and infants and aged people being much tions. dry; the temples throb; a new kind of headache is in less frequently attacked with it. But children, duced; the pulse becomes even at the tenderest age, do sometimes have it; and OUR FRIENns, who are already interested in the subject, full and strong, as well as it is thought to have attacked the will form clubs wherever they can, and thus rapid; the breathing is again deep, but oppressed; unborn foetus, as advance the indicated by the periodical good cause. the urine is still scanty, but it is now high-colored; trembling in the womb the patient is exceedingly uncomfortable of which the mother, when herself the subject of the THE postage on this Journal to any Post Office and restless. in the At disease, has been sensible in the interval United States is six cents a year, or half a cent a number. length another change comes over him: the skin, of her own ! which, from being pale and rough, paroxysm. Old persons, likewise, may suffer A compleTE catalogue had become hot from of all works published at the office and livid, but harsh, now recovers its natural softness: ague. Negroes are much less susceptible of of this Journal will be forwarded, on the dis post-paid applications. a moisture ease than whites. appears on the forehead and face; presently - WHEN Books are wanted, the order should be written on & a f a copious and universal . sweat breaks forth, with great : Treatment.—It has been a doctrine with many slip, separate from that containing the names of subscribers. relief physi to the feelings of the patient; the thirst ceases; cians, more especially those wholived before the CoRREspondBNTs will please be particular to give the name | present the tongue becomes moist; the urine plentiful, but century, that ague should not be interfered with. of their Post Office, County and State. ! turbid; This the pulse regains it natural force and fre belief arose, doubtless, from the circumstance that this *G&S THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL. / \ disease has always, until very lately, been looked upon that they do more good than harm in some suoh cases, for experiment. In four of these cases, two pills, con S, as healthful. " An ague in the spring is physio for a as well also a j in remittent fever ; but why do we need taining each five grains of cobweb, were given at inter ^ King," was an old English saying ; and I have no to resort to such means, when we have in hydropathy vals of two hours, commencing six hours before the doubt that when the disease was allowed to run its a remedy which is not only far more powerful, but ab expected time of recurrence of the paroxysm. The fit course in a natural way, things went on better than solutely safe 1 A more rational and safer mode than to did not return. they now do under the powerful modes of drugging, resort to blistering would be the application of mus Bleeding in the cold stage of intermittents was which are almost everywhere adopted. What fortunes tard or ammonia for the rubefacient effect. But these strongly recommended by the late Dr. Mackintosh of have been made in the United jStates by the sale of likewise are wholly unnecessary, provided the case is Edinburgh and his followers. At present, however, " oholagogues," and other pretended cures for this treated in the proper hydropathio manner. Blisters I the practice has gone into disrepute, and is not, I disease ; and what havoc has been made with thou should not use upon myself in ague or any other fever.