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Treatment of Dysentery

A Leave your business behind you when you go slight attack will often yield to the employ- to your home. Do not sit down to your dinment of a dose of castor oil; warm fomenta- ner with your brows knit, and your mind tions or mustard poultices being applied over absorbed in casting up interest accounts. the belly; the patient being confined to bed, Never abridge the usual hours of sleep. Take and only allowed to partake of food the most more or less of exercise in the open air every simple in its nature, that is, farinaceous food, day. Allow yourself some innocent recreacream, or milk (with one-third of lime-water, tion. Eat moderately, slowly, and of just if requisite), thin broths, &c. Perfect rest in what you please. If any particular dish disthe horizontal posture is almost essential. agrees with you, however, never touch it or A warm bath for 20 minutes, or a shorter look at it. Do not imagine that you must time if the patient feels faint, will often give live on rye bread or oat meal porridge; a great relief. Stimulants should be forbidden reasonable quantity of nutritious food is esin mild cases; but where the patient is be- sential to the mind as well as the body . coming weakened by the disease, port wine, Above all, banish all thoughts of the subject. as the best stimulant in these cases, may be If you have any treatises on dyspepsia , given in beef-tea, or alone. And the rule of domestic medicines, etc., put them directly little and often may be strictly observed. out of your reach. If you are constantly Early treatment is most important in dysen- talking and thinking about dyspepsia, you tery, and therefore the medical man should be sent for without loss of time, in case the simple means recommended are ineffectual.