The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-17 00:00:00

WHITCFIURCH CANONWORIM

num.—During the put few days the annual femd
hes been held here. It ni a mere sena a immorality,
and we are glad that it is yearly diminishing.
CONFIRMATIOL —On Wednesday, the 4th inst., tho
Lord Bishop of Salisbury held a confirmation in the
church here at H a.m. Several eandidalss ol bail
sexes were admitted to the sacred rite.

BA LI9 BURY.
MrpR4TIMLI CBIIIIIIIII Meszst—At our Michaelmas
market on the 12tb, between 200 and 250 tons of cheese
were pitched, the quality generally being rery
'Skins were in limited supply, scarcely any being ors
offer, There was a moderately numerous attendance,
but business was by no mesns brisk, and a decline in
pricenf from 2s. to 3s. per mot took place as company/
with last mooth's quotations. At the 'lose of the
market nearly three parts at the tarietts theteriPtease is
offer had changed hands, the prices earrent being so
follows from 265. to ,345.; half Cowards, 525.
to 68.; Somerset,, 625. to 62. 1; askOheddere, 70e. to
76e. per cwt.

• IFI TREATMENT OF CHOLBIA AT
SOUTHAMPTON.
Dr., John Chapman. of London, learning of the.
prweice of cholera at Southampton and ft e neighbour,
hoed, proceeded thither in search of sufferers from that-
disease. He did so because, having originated • new
theory eoncerning the proximate cense, raters, and
treatment of cholera, he was anxious to determine Its
value by the teat of experiment. He is of opinion "that
the primary cause of cholera is, as a general rule (liable
to exceptions which I shall hereafter indicate), the ex-
cessive heat of bet estimates, and of temperate diseases
in mummer when cholera prevails. That the proximal.
cause of cholera is of precisely the same nature as that
of summer or eholerac diarrhoea—via, extreme.
hyperemia of the spinal and sympathetic nervous
centres, but that it is far more developed, and corm.
(meetly that its action is proportionately more powerful
and intense. That cholera is neither contayions nor In-
fectious in any sense whatsoever, except through the
depressing influence of fear. That cholera may be aim. .
pletely averted, and, whenkleveloped cured by mserdy-
leg the temperature of the spinal region." This method
of cure be carries into effect by applying ice to the.
spine al the patient. Six persona suffering from Glaciers,
were placed under his treatment, and four recovered..
Of the other two the death of one he attributes to
"her systeml bediagnsetereted:wfth alcohol," and the.
other "to her aged frame baying been two much
shaken." The results as shown in one ease may be ce
interest. "Mrs. aged 29, baring had diarrhoea
about ten days, became faint on the 2nd inst. and took to
her bed. On that afternoon was purged • dreadful.'
Was first seen by me Oateberd. 11.90 a.m. The purging
had continued—recurring every ten minutes, or oftener.
The cramps have become so bad that she has not bad
five minutes' sleep at a time for them. Sickness loos
became violent also. Skin cold, but not extremely so;
head decidedly cold; eyes deeply sunken and anananded
by a livid circle; is giddy; can't stand • moment; feels
tight in the chest, she says, and hot in herself. Pula.
108, thin and very feeble. I applied foe at once ctl
the whole spine. By 2.45 p.m. the cramps were much,
lessened, the puke had fallen to 104, and meanwhile
the bowels were moved but once. At ?p.. the aampr
had subsided, and the patient had become *comfortably
earns all over. The symptoms steadily sultsicied, so
that in the daytime of Oct. 5, the bowels were sewed
but one., and she only vomited a little of the &Win&
Cramps quite gone. Warm all over. She steeddy far
proved until the Bth lust., when, AN • pert ot the
feverish reaction, symptoms of cerebral and pulmonary
congestion appeared. These were subdued with wonder-
ful rapidity by the epplioation of heat along the upper
part of the spine and I left her to-day with a goodt
appetite, and quite convalescent." This patient, a
delicate-looking woman, occupies, with her husband, eve
small room, containing a few old rag.' oil' AIM part d
the floor iii bed, the only other furnitans, being an 014
table and a bottomless chair. Her husband has long
been out of work„ and they have been living as Awn'.
tion allowance. Bed as is the locality in which is liras,
I believe that weld a adequate noarheniset men the
chief predisposing amass of bermady.

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