The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-09-19


that couded the hour of its BIRTH only remains for u.s.
at the present. merely to its appearance and
emnaon and refer the reader TO his medical know
ledge tor solution of the proxmate On Sunday eve
nng Aug 9Th, George Flanders aged 26 years. was sudden
attacked with indsnct vision single objects appearing
double, VERTIGO Utilization of the pupils and pain in the bow
els About middle of Sunday night cholera morbus sue
oeedsd accompanied with spasmodc affection of the throat
deglution becoming difficult and on the Monda, both
the power OF swallowing and of speech almost entirely
lost This day monday old Mr. Flanders, aged 72 John
&c. Benjamin, 81 Margaret 81 Besey, 49, Mrs Cramer al
SO cd OF old Mr. Flanders a. andh daughter Margaret
aged years. all were attacked with precisely the symp
toms as George Thus within the of ortyeight hours
eight Of the most muscular and healthy people this
were struggling under the dangerous and
ady As the symptoms alike all the cases. differing
only IN the degree and DURATION history of will be suf
cent therefore we shall continue that of George as being
the most marked and rapid Medical assistance first
led on Monday evening The resored for his relief
seemed TO have momenary good effect Tuesday, the small
lest quantity OF fluid almost produced ranguation when
IN the act oswaowing breaihed perfectly natural complain
ing of pain and rational Wednesday forenoon continued
the same-6 O'Clock, p M. died. Thursday, P. Marga-
ret Cramer died On the Sunday following, p M. John
Flanders died. and IL O'Clock the night the old man,
his father Thus the father, his sons and his grand
daughter, in the short space of week, swept
the bourne of eternity by the mystied instrument of
DEATH and four other children the very point of travelling
the same fearful path The buras were indeed, ndescrba
BILE of affection The beddden aged MOTHER whose
sckened soul held by the thread of existence
was carried from corpse to corpse to weep her last farewell
her earthly hopesover the children whom she had
ed and cherished through the vcssudes fife. Never have
we beheld much sympathy many she'd when
the vast congregation of people carried by the dead
the last and only peaceful freehold of man..
The bodies Immediately after death became covered with
dark purple Spots and their somachs found be in
high of iammat coats nearly
and the inferior part of each putting many places gan
grenous appearance There the slightest indication
of this inflammation while living The of the
ach carefully bottles and professor Had
ley Fairfield, who, after deliberate examinations detect
no deleterious substance in them whatever
The opinion Of the attending physicians, Delaney, White
and Shuer and most probably is the one that
vegetable narcotic poison taken in the food has been the
ofths catasrophe and that the poison
have been taken the day previous the general attack
ofhe young did not reside with his uher but
ly visit that day Sunday and returned his
al residence the evening. Yet he through the food he
used his fathers that day, had The disease all its mag
nancy The general to its originating from the
Of pickles made copper vessel be true of
those that died. used al no time any pickles whatever
Whether the actual and specific will ever be known
cannot tell The disease, confident, will extend
farther But this do know, that the symptoms attending
vegetable posons have been present in all their vruen
every case, and that malignant country fe-
produce such rapid dissolution local arrangements
found in the bodies examined after death. Four of
hose primarily attacked of convalescence
but their recovery must necessarily be very Slow III
I'm Important Operntion-We learn by the New York q
Medical and Physical Journal for July, that DR. Abner
has succeeded in forming artificial eyeld for black r
,oy This important operation performed in short time nj
ind few days afterwards the boy had very slightly eye ~
answering the purposes of natural The ball the u
lad been goed by and several attempts made
the detached eyeld by other PHYSICIANS
which all proved abortiye. " Y. ifer.