The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1794-11-04 00:00:00, page 1

" I HE fellowfever does not
yet abate. It commences with
more violence and travels with
wore rapid malignity than for
merly. ihave patients on whom
the firft attack commenced vari
eufly, with delirium, §oma,and
syncope, yetl meet ti/in every
form, without fears to its issue ;
for I can look back 0 days,oyer
a/very numerous lift, which in
creases every day, without any
reflection,that I have loft one pa
tient. Yet death ilalks widely a
round& hurries numbers to their
grave. Id the Potter's field a
lone, in which Grangers only
^re buried fix or eight are in
terred every twenty-four hours,
especially in the- night. How
tonfoling is that view, which
relents a success not broken by
° a (ingle death ? I have patients
under the worst. forms of the
disease, but I generally bring it
to a close on the Second or third
day. Purging and bleeding are
the only remedies required; and"
these disarm the disease. A
nother gratifying circumilance
is, that many of the phylicians
^yonder how they could have
goubted so long. Seme who
denied and ridiculed the opinion
two weeks ago, now condescend
to acknowledge that " we have
Something unusual and alarming
among us." They bend their
pra&ice to the fears, and ad
vance from purging to bleed
ing; others having once denied
^ie pretence of fetch a disease,
S the yellow fever, will I ex
pert never change their asser
tions, whatever may be their
real Sentiment*, left they im
peach themSclves of ignorance
and want of discernment. We
have exciting cauSes of every
description. „A mate of a ves
sel was Seized instantly with the
molt violent symptoms of the
disease from a Severe blow on
the head by a cable. As the
disease becomes rnoremalignant,
bleeding becomes proportional
ly more beneficial, and more
Ipeedily required. It will not
do to lose twelve or twenty-four
hours, for in that time, I hrfve
heard of several cases ending fa
tally. In molt cases, there are
,0 premonitory symptoms ; the
contagion as like lightning in-
Itantaneous and violent.
A medical gentleman just now
AmTofmed me, that he had been
Obliged to give a woman,Seven
ty grains of calomel, and one
faceted and twenty of jalap,
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to produce only four ftoob. —
He also bleeds and with " a?
mazing advantage." This per
son laughed two weeks ago at
the aflertion we publicly made,
that we had the fellow fever to
contend with. He is reformed,
and thereby contributes to our
triumph. The fever proves
more contagious every day.—
No perfori (who is not abfolute
lymad) can deny it. Some ve
ry ufeful citizens who marched
from town on Wednesday last,
are since dead at Frederick.—
The fatigue proved the exciting
cause ; the pulfc varies much ;
I have had it from thirty-five to
one hundred forty strokes in a
minute ; it rises invariably af
ter bleeding, and becomes more
full even in those cases where it
was scarcely ."perceptible, but
enough so to discover its ten
sion. The bleeding instantly
lessens or removes the racking
pains in the head, and limbs.—
Purging -has the fame effe& on
the pain in the back. This sim
ple mode of treatment general
ly removes the vomiting, coma,
delirium, h^morrage, and pre
vents the yellow colorof thefkin.
In the pra&iceotfome others,the
happy effc&s are not observed,
because they foll ow a different
plan. All who die are very yel
low,& have the black vomit,&c.
Do not look into our papers for
any thing rcfpe&ing our town.
No Printer dare insert a word
about the yellow fever.
I bled to day a man whofc eye
was fiery, and pupil excessive
ly dilated in every light. As
the blood flowed, his pupil con
tra&ed itfclf to its natural di
mensions. This man is a butch
er, he was in Philadelphia all
lait summer and autumn and af
fixed in carrying out and bury
ing many dead of the yellow
fever. He 'has been much less
expofeeV here, but is now very
ill. I visited yesterday evening,
a young woman, two days ill,
unable to move, pains violent,
thought by her friends to be dy
ing. Her pulse quick, almost;
imperceptible. Yet from her;
other symptoms,! was obliged to
bleed her, her pulse immediate
ly rose, became full and flower,
and this morning, she feelspret
ty well. I had given her some
purges also.—On an average, as
far as I can colled,about twelve
die daily. I have four patients
in one Imall room but eight feet
square."
Smgular Anecdote of a Diver.
Os all the divers who have given any
. information of the bottom of the
ocetn, the famous Nieholt. Pefce, men
tioned by Rinchcr, is the most celobrattd ;
TUESA^ r, November. 4, 1794.
the veracity of this account is not in all
refpeH to be depended on, though Rin.
cher assures us he had it from the archives
of the Kings of Sicily. This famous di
ver, by his greet (kill in fwiraming, and
perseverance under water, was foroamed
the fiih. This man from his infancy was
used to the sea, and gained a livelihood by
diving for corals and oytiers, which he
fold to the villages on thore. From bis
long acquaintance with the lea, it at length
became aim* his natural element ; he
has been known to spend five days among
the waves, without any other provision
than whac he caught there. He often
fw&m over frum Sicily to Calabria, a meft
dangerous passage ; And frequently wou d
swim among th: gulphs of Lipari Inland,
without the ieaft apprehension of danger.
Some mariners one day observed some
thing at a dißaace from them in the fee,
which they supposed to be a sea monster ;
but upon a nearer view they found it to be
Nicholas, whom they took into their (hip.
When theyaOt'd where be was goiog, he
produceda packet of letters, fattened up in
a leather bag, which he was carrying to
one of the towns in Italy. After flopping
with them fone time, and eating a hearty
meal, he took his leave, and jumped into
the sea, to pursue his voyage.
Nature framed to have affifled him in a
peculiar degree to bear the hardships oA
the deep ; for the spaces between his fin
gers end toes were webbed like a grole,
and his chest became so very capacious, as
to enable him to take in at one respiration
as much breath as would left him the day.
The fame of this extraordinary man
soon reaci J the ears of Frederic, king of
Sicily, who? excited by a natural curios
ity, ordered that he Should be brought be
fore him. The king thought this a fair
opportunity to gain feme certain intelli
gence concerning the gulph of Charybdis ;
he therefore commanded the poor diver to;
explore the bottom of this dreadful whirl-I
pool, and ordered a golden cap to be flung
into it, byway of incitement. Nicholas,
confeious of the danger he was exposed to,
ventured to refionftrate ; but the hopes of
reward, the desire of pleading the king,
and the encreafing of his own fame, at
length prevailed. He immediately jump
ed into the golph, and was instantly invj.
fible. The king and his attendants waited
with great anxiety for three quarters of an
hour on the ihore, and at last perceived
him buffeting the waves with t e hand,
and holding thecup in triumph with the o
ther ; The cup was immediately made
the rewardef bis bold adventure. He war
allowed time to refrefh himfelf, and was
then brought again before the king, to re
late the wonders he had been witaefs of.
He declares, if he had been apprized of
half the dangers he had to encounter, he
should have never obeyed his command.
There are four obstacles he fays, which
render the golph terrible, not only to men,
but even to the fifties who inhabit it.—
The firft, is the great force of water burst
ing up from the^bottem, which requires
great strength to resist; secondly the ab
ruptness of the recks, threatening destruc
tion on every fide ; thirdly the force of
the whirlpool, dashing agairft theft rocks ;
fourthly the quantity & size of the polyp
os fiffi, foroe of which appear as large as
man and flick against the rocks, projefr
ing their fibrous arms to entangle every
thing that approaches. He was then a/ked
how he so readily found the cup ; he re
plied, that it had been carried by the
waves into the cavity of a rock ; against
which he himfelf flruck in his defcent.=
The king Walking for further information,
prevailed on this unfortunate man to ven
ture a fecchd time. He wept down, but
was never foce heard of.
From the (London) Courier of July,
PEACE.
AT length the hour is arrived, when
every man,whofe mind is not nar-
We fee the armies of the allies divided
and difperted—miferably mouldering a<
way, and faft linking by sickness and the
fivord into the grave. We behold all
Flanders overrun. We fee that the exer
tions of the enemy, though " gigantic,"
are not " ihort-lived,"and that they have
“ not fyeedily yielded td the rational
and well dirc&ed Urength of united Eu
rope."
Last, and perhaps the most important
truth of all, we fee among the allied
powers the germ of difeord and diicontent.
We have beheld Prussia recede, and we
have thought proper to rouse her flagging
zeal by a liberal subsidy. But has this
expedient succeeded ? Has not her dele,
loft Flanders I is Austria perfectly Satisfi
ed ? Is it not fufpeded that thr Emperor
has returned to Vienna with a convidion
the objefl of the War ©root be attained ?
Has he not found he has exhatifted his re
sources, without producing any beneficial
tonfeq uences r Has his presence in the
Netherlands, Or the idle ceren ohy of bis
inauguration as Duke Brabant, Simulated
the drabanters to a more vigorous system
of action I No, when he told them that
the moment was arrived in which, if the,
did not rife in amass, they would lose
every thing—when he in fitted on the in#
mediate necellity of their levying 4.0,000
men ; what did his intreaties or aflertiont
produce! An offer to raise a corps of a
bout 400 men !
The Toefin of alarm has been wrung
from one end of the Netherlands to the
other, and it has scarcely awakened the
inhabitants from their dumber, and cer«
tainly not induced them to take any meas.
ures for their defence.—lt would be üba*
vailing to conceal this truth, that* the
Netherlands are dififfeded to the house of
AuftriatWe have beheld Bruges throwing
open her gates to the conquerors, and re^
driving them with greetings and gratula
tions; we have seen the spirit that pre
vails among the people of Ghent, and
what effia was produced by the fuppoftion
that the French were in its vicinity. Tht
mass of th epeople were hardly reftraiuca
by tile military from surmounting their
walls with the tri-coloured flag.
What are the sentiments of Holland I
Alas ! it would be insulting the under-
Landings of our readers, were we to iri
finuatc that any doubt could be entertarsi'
cd of the nature of these sentiments.
What the opinion of Spain is, we were
very long ago enabled to colled at the
memorable evacuation cf Toulon. What
fleets has She feat to cooperate with usf
or what fubftirates has (he furnifhed ,
Fainting with the lab of blend, and dist
nmyed by the mighty energies of the en
emy, we fee the flag of France waving
triumphant on her frontiers.
rowed by prejudice, or corrupted by in
tereft, mult be convinced that the object
of the war is unattainable —lt is unattaiu
:able if it be, as it is generally believed
I to be Che degruaion of the French Gov
ernment.
What experience has the present cam
paign afforded us ?— We began it with ala
lies, who, we were told, were unanimous
in the common cause. We opened the
campaign with armies as well appointed
as any that were ever brought into the
field. We were informed that the maG of
power which the allies possessed was so
ponderous and fe well combined, that the
foe could not refill it. We were taught
to believe.—" That the gigantic, but
Ihort- lived exertions of the French mutt
speedily yield to rational and well direc
ted strength of united Europe."—Nay,
we were aflhrad that disregarding, and al&
most despising the prudent maxima on
which all former wars had been conducted,
the allies meant to penetrate to Paris, and
to extinguish the vital principle of the en
my.
In what manner have these assurances
beep fulfilled /
[Whole No. 64.]