Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-07-27
CHOLERA INTELLIGENCE.
CHOLERA IN NEW YORK

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Tho following is tho report of the New York
Board of Health for the twcnty -four hours ending
on Sunday at 10 O'clock, viz;
a.. Ga, New cases. Deaths.
Hospitals as an
Harlem not heard from.
| Inicrments from 8 A. NJ. Saturday. los NJ
Sunday, lT6--l52 of which were cholera. Tot,i
for the week, 96l.
NEW YORK-LATEST REPORT.
! The Report of tho New York Board of iIealth
for the twenty fonr hours, ending on Mondnw
morning at 10 o'clock, wac as follows
c.. New Cases, Deaths.
City, private practice, l63 46
| Hospitals, az II
Bellevue, 26 10
Intcrmonts reported to the City Inspector from
Sunday morning, 22d July. at o'clock, to Mon.
day 23d, ut the Same hour l35-of which IOS were
Of spasmodic cholera. ~
The injection of saline mixture into the veins
under the most unfavorable circumstances has
succeeded in one out of three in which it was
triod In the other two patient, the effects were
very striking, and of the greatest benefit
Tho experiment is prosecuting in every hopeless
case.
BRoeKLYN, Sunday noon.
seventeen new cases, and two deaths, reported
the last "a hours.
ALBANY BOARD OF HEALTH.
:, Friday, July 90, a p. NJ.
New cases of Epidemic Cholera %, of which
i0 are severe; deaths7.
Died in New York on Sunday mornino of oh,
lera, GEORGE e. SMITH, Esq Alderman Of Tho Al,
ward of that city. He was engaged in his official
duties till III o'clock on Saturday cyening--v..
attacked with the disease at O'Clock, and died at
IL o'clock in the morning Alderman Sm;tl, b.d
been ndefatigable in the DISCHARGE of the ardnom.
duties which devolved upon him as a member of
the Board OF Health during tho prevailing malady.
From Poulson's American Daiiv Adpertis.r
Extract of letter, dated Now York, American
Hotel, Broadway, 10 o'clock, p. NJ Friday goth
July. ~''A
Il arrived at this hotel nj S p. NJ, and was inn.
,ne'aiatcly introduced toa young physician from
baltimore, Or. Baxley; lie on the point of go
ing to tho Bellevue Hospital 10 hear the result of
some experiments which were introduced TODAY
Tor the first time, and before had been in ten
hnates' nothing 10th, went with him in one of the
very numerous omnibusses. In a short time we
reached the hospital and found the MDs of the
place injecting IL grains to quart salt and water
into the veins of the orm saw at least n quart
anu quarter introduced without moments cessa-
tioh. Inc effect upon the pulse was most mark
ed and decisive it become both fuller and stronger
ana the man expressed himself upon being asked
now no felt, as being decidedly more comfortable.
lqute nhe' was his answer) Not the slightest
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Jecuon OF SO large quantity of into his veins
Inc experiment has been tried six times ALWAYS
without any uncasiness; in instance without he
ing asked, the patient expressed himself as being
dec,aeoy better all over, and ALL when questioned
said they felt moro comfortable The water was
rather warmer than the blood, though having no
Thermometer wo could not tell the number Of de-
grees. 1t also seems to produce n mbrked bene6
cai change IN the respiration, but whether pcrma-
nent cannot tell, although temporarily beneficial
1t has not been the of arresting the hand of
death, which thus far has in all those cases, lex
cept tho one saw,) been too powerful In ono
case L distinctly marked the discolorot;nn Of
the SKIN, 1T is not blue but of leaden or liyid CO.
lor, 1t Is dhcul:, however, TO designate the color
The corrugated and soaked appearance of the
hands was distinctly in the case without anv
iiVld or lcaden color on any part of the body. In
the case with the livid color there was the CORFU
gated appearance but not the soaked.-The whole
body, but more particularly the thorax and upper
extremites bathed with sweat which togeti,er
with the cold feel of tho tongue, and deathike
coldness OF the whole surface of the body are con-
sidered by several physicians being more con.
stantiy present than any other symptom. DR.. De.
van, oil Bellevue hospital considers dark livid CO.
or OF SKIN surrounding the eye being generally
seen In the commencement, and he terms it
the choleric eye. He said he almost always
sees 1T, but as / have seen it in but one
case, cannot speak positively The woman
in whom 1 it, was the nurse in tho Onb-
thalmia hospital, and if she gets the disease
there may be something in it. As regards the cold
ness OF the tongue speak most confidently
Tor IN convalescent woman the coldness still con-
tihued by comparing 1T with my own, there can be
no mistake about the matter; as regards the pecu
liar voice, cannot speak confidently, for i GER
family have not yet seen it, and i'm one very bad
case 1t certainly did not exist, though 1t has been
observed oy nearly all the writers on the subject
and the medical men of this place. there can sup
pose' be no doubt of the fact; of this more hereaf
ter.
l regret to say that fear shall see very few
Dq 4 al hooI
ready, the doctors have almost given it up; however
hope shall see few.
There is among the symptoms generally observed
very great degree of heat in the epigastc region
while all other parts of the system have the death
like coldncss already noticed. The disease has
within the last "a hours, appeared in the Ophthal
mia Hospital for children, located near the
Bellevue Hospital, but no communication exists
between them, 3 or have died in or 10 hours
from being perfectly well; how to account for IL
appearance there, has puzzled all, for excepting
the physician who is only from time to time i'm the
Cholera Hospital and perhaps a nurse no others 90
there. There is no doubt of the continuance of the
mental faculties until very short perid before
death, rational answers given to all questions
proposed. AS was very aptly remarked by DIR. Bib
by, tins disease begins where others end and MS
remarked, you lave from the very first start TO bat
tic with death, not disease
III Is computed that nearly if not quite 100, 900
souls have left this city-panic very great, though
considered unnecessary to the extent existing.
T.. J. C.
Extract OF letter from DR.. Z. j. Coke, dated
New YoRK, July 81.
"After breakfast l visited the Crosby Street Hos
pital, under the direction of Dr. Rhinelander. 7
staid in the Hospital more than two hours and
found that the Doctor considered the exhibition
OF caoineI, opium and camphor to be the most
successful plan OF treatment. There can be little
doubt of the disease being more under the control
of medicine than il was in the commencement