The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-18 00:00:00

CHOLERA MORBUS.

DEATH OF DR. BUCHANNAN.
(From the Northern lVhig.)

Among the recent victims of cholera, in this town, w•
have to mention, with deep regret. Dr. Buchanan, Phy•
sician to the Cholera Hospital of Ballymacarrett district.
His death took place on Wednesday morning; and, a-
may readily be supposed, has excited much sorrow, and
occasioned considerable alarm. Dr. Buchanan was on►
of the most active of our medical fellow-townsmen, iri
endeavouring to ascertain the nature, and check the pro-
gress of the disease, under which he has himself suffered.
When cholera made its appearance in Glasgow he pro-
ceeded thither to study the disease; and from the period
al the bre:acing out of that epidemic in Belfast, his ex
ertions were unremitting. During the day, on Tuesday,
he felt slightly unwell ; but no decided symptoms of cho-
lera were manifested until about nine o'clock in the even-
ing. At that time the disease began to operate in th,
most marked manner. He was shortly afterwards attended
by Doctors Thompson, Kidley, and Forcade; the last to
whom remained with him until he expired. The usuy'
remedies were resorted to, with the exception of bleeding.
which was dispensed with, according, we believe, to hi.
own wish. The applications seemed, however, to produce
not the slightest effect. The disease ran through it,
various stages with a rapidity and virulence that baffled
every tffort to control it ; and at a few minutes befori
eight o'clock on Wednesday morning the sufferer expired.
Dr. Buchanan was rather of a weak constitution ; and
the fatigue which he lately underwent had produced a state
of exhaustion which seems to have rendered the physica'
powers unequal to contend with the violence of the attack.
Dr. Buchanan has left behind him a wife, with a Tamil)
of five children ; and we are sorry to add, with, we be-
lieve, scarcely any provision for their subsistence.

NEwAttx:.—This alarming and virulent disease is mak-
ing daily progress here. On Thursday night the sth, a
little gill belonging to Mr. Atkinson, shoemaker, Mill•
lane, about four years old, was taken ill (in the same hour,
where Smith lodged, whose case we repotted last week)
aed in a short time expired ; and on the following morn •
ing a little boy, brother to the above, about two years old,
was taken with the same symptoms, and in a few hour,.
expired ; both were buried the same day. On Friday,
Smith's wife was taken, in the same house, and expieyd
on Sunday morning, aged 33 years ; she was buried ;h.
same day. On Tuesday, a little girl, named Mary Grok'es.
daughter of Mrs. Grokes, Mill gate, was seized with th;•
dreadful disease, and expired the same day ; she was in-
terred the following morning; this poor woman has buried
her husband and three children in the short space of tlv.-
months. On Wednesday, Mrs. Sarah Footit, of Mill-
lane, was taken violently ill of this disease, and expired at
night ; she was the daughter of Mrs. Mowers, of Hyson-
green.—Bosion Gazette.
WISBECH.—On Friday se'nnight our town was much
alarmed by the sudden death of a child belonging to Cap-
tain Swan, of one of the sloops lying in the river : the
remains were interred in the evening ; but before that
took place, the mother of the child w. is seized with
and expired the same evening; and the mate of the same
shop was taken in the same way, but being removed to a
house provided for the reception of patients, he still lives
though in a bad way. Another death took place on Sun-
day.—lbid.

LYNN, JULY 12.—The cholera morbus has again bro
ken out in this town. Amongst the victims we regret to
name Mrs. Wm. Oxley, wife of Mr. Oxley, of the firm
of Oxley, English, and Oxley, merchants. In another
family it has been fatal to a melancholy extent—that i,t
Mr. Ortnson, shipm alter, who is dead, together with hi•
wife anti two daughters, and son's wife. It is a singular
coincidence that news has arrived from London of th,
decease by the same disease in London of Mrs. Ormson,
his brother's widow, and her son.in-law, Mr. Joseph
Maughan, ship master of that port, and second son
Mrs. Maughan, of this place. About 60 cases have from
the commencement occurred at Lynn. Nearly the same
number have occurred in the little village of Grimatone,
about five miles from this place. Several other
are also affected.—lbid.

BOSTOII.-We regret to state that there is no doubt
this dreadful malady has at length reached Boston : 0.,
Tuesday last a man named Yarborough, residing in Lin-
coln-lane--a densely populated part of the town, was at
tacked with the disease. fie lingered until Friday, when
he expired. The malady next broke out in quite an op-
posite quarter, in one of the new houses over Main Ridge-
bridge, in the parish of Skirbeck. A man named Rih y,
who bad been indulging some time in habits of intemper-
ance, was playing at cards on Saturday evening. Feeling
unwell he went to a druggist's and got some medicine,
hut at five on Sunday morning last he was attacked with
all the symptoms of cholera; his extremities became colt,
he vomited much, exhaustion ensued, his face betrayed
that species of anxiety manifested in cholera cases, be
gradually got worse, and expired yesterday moronic.
—lbid.

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SIR WALTER Scorr.—We are happy to be
able to state that Sir WALTER Score enjoys better heahi
than is generally supposed. When he stop!) d at the
Fushie-bridge, the other day, oa his road to Abbotsford,
he immediately recognized the old lady of the house (who
is supposed to be the prototype of Meg Dodds), and gay.
her a hearty shake of the hand. The old lady has been in
raptures ever sinee....Edinburglt Evening Post.