Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-10-15
CHOLERA MORBUS.

Academy of Science, Paris Julu IS.
 M. Manendie communicated the following pas sage from letter from Dr Pinel, dated Warsaw July 9th: "The more ] observe this malady the more am convinced that it differs entirely from that described by authors under the name of the cholera morbus; it chiefly attacks those individuals, who have been enfeebled by acute diseases (especialy chronic) by unwhOesOme diet or excessive fatigue its appearance is generally sudden like an appoplec tic attack; ifthere be any previous symptoms they are so vague that they cannot be precisely determn- ed; pains in the abdomen and cramp in the legs are sometimes its ioreboders. In its state of violence it presents the following phenomena:
 E1ternaly.-The skin is livid, dry and chilly the extremities of the body are dark and icy cold the countenance, ordinarily pale, bears the impress oi terror; the eyes convulsivey turned in are sunk in their orbits, as after long marasmi the abdominal coats (Paro,s) firmly contracted, seemed glued to the vertebral column and the patient IS bent so that his knees almost touch his chin.
 Sfafe 9t Me principal Jtunctions-The pulse is i'm percepbe, even in the carotid arteries by the aus cultaon there may be heard at the heart especially near the aortal cavities. feeblng and rusng noise winch may be compared to that produced by the con tlnued motion ofa small wheel. The respiration is short and quick, accompanied by groans and hic- coughs; he vomiting, are very rare, the dejections more frequent and of brown, yellow or whitish CO., Tor. Very often neither vomtngs nor deiections are observable.
 The midst this annihilaton of nutrmental life, the intellect remains sound there is no delirium, no wandering; by insisting sharply, due answers may be obtained.
 The severest symptoms of this malady are the shi- verng and general lividness, and above all the im- minence of suocation and the cessation of the beat ing ofhe heart. This state continues several hours, sometimes whole day, rarely longer. There may be remission of some hours, then relapse and is often at the second third relapse that the patient dies. In an extreme violent state of the maady, death ensues in few hours The recoveres are long and painful; always complicated with severe organic affections, of anasarca and modification of the extrimities, are the most common. The counte- nance retains, many months after the malady, a ca daverous aspect; and the beatings of the heart are remarkably slow, and hardly giving 30 or 70 pulsa- tions mnute'"
 Alter furnishing some anatomical details, not ma terially different from those which have been already communicated by other physicians, M Pine hazards an opinion upon the seat of this malady; he thinks that it resides in the gangons of the great sympa- theuc nerve; this opinion is not founded but upon reasonings more or less specious; to M. Pnel how ever, It appears the only one that is admissible.
 " It may hereafter" says he, "produce very i'm portant moral results. In the first place, the maady which rages here, is not the cholera morbus, but severe atiectation of trisplanchnique nerve, naady as yet unknow unattended to, ts which shall give the name of tisplarchio after having dispensed with lhe odious name ofcholera The trisplanche is like