The Arkansas advocate., 1832-07-18

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 Yet 1t was not until 1880, sepen years
 after its appearance at. Asiracar, that
 It passed over frem that point into lsu-
 Fopean territories. In July in that year,
 It attacked Astraean severely, and pass
 cd along the Don, the Bnepcr, and
 tic Nolga into Europe, spread with a-
 maZlng rapldiiy, traYersing d space of sixteen hundred miles in little more
 than two months. Its gradual advance through Europe since it's introduction into Poland by the Russian Army in
 1881 is well known. It has finally reached some of the busiest and most popuious points on the western coasts of Europe. Where is it to stop? Will the mighty volume of waters which roll between US and it's present victims be more formidable and impossible barrier than were the mountains of Asia? Or is the Gueqt Pesfslenec des- tined 10 overcome all obstacles of na- ture and circumnavigatc the whole world, carrying it's destroying ravagos
 into every habitable region? These arc the inquiries which fill the thought and alarm the approximations of ;i}i-in- quiries 10 which DO answer is expected or can be given but reference to the fearful future.
 The History of the cholera thus far, has shown that where 1t has once sat- tackled place it establishes itself per manently, and becomes an epidemic lreappearing at intervals with violence. 1 tp 10 May, 1881, q period of fourteen years, sfr hundred and .ffysir irrup- tons of Cholera had been asoertained.
 In India alone, the number of irrup-
 tions has been 433. Calcutta has been attacked every year, Bombay twalyE times, Madras nine times, sNc. M. dc Jonres estimates the mortality in India at2 2,500, eco annually, 35 ,00O,00Oforthc fourteen years! The lowest calculation gives hfty-sin millions for the rest of Asia and Europe-hcing more than if. ty millions of deaths in fourteen years rem one fatal disease.
 Wherever the cholera has appeared, 1t has seldom destroyed less than one third of the diseased. In India tho proportion has been generally about one half. Not unfrequently, three iifths, two thirds and six sevenths ofthe
 infected, perished. We have hereto-
 fore remarked upon the caprice with
 which it's ravages have been apparent l y directed, the mortality under pre-
 cisely similar circumstance varying, in a manner yet unexplained and appa- rcntly unaccountablc.
 Its caprice of movement is not less remarkable. The T bbe reports off f tic India Medical Board state that the disease
 would sometimes take q complete cir cle round a village, and leaving it ur. touched, pass on as if it were wholly
 to depart from the district. Then, ai.
 ter lapse of weeks, perhaps months,
 1t would suddenly reapPear, and scarce
 ly touching the parts formerly attacked,
 ravage the spot which had 50 recently
 escaped. It is also stated that in the very centre of infected districts, there arc sometimes found narrow patches and strips of territory into which the disease has penetrated. Other oapri- ces have also marked its career. In most cases of irruption, il has been found to increase with the advance of sum-
 mer, and to decrease or disappear as the winter advanced. In Russia, the
 reverse took place. Cholera invaded ] Moscow in the dead of winter. with the thermometer at l6 degrees below
 zero, and spread as the weather be- came colder.
 In general, it has been most fatal in hot, moist places, the banks of rivers,
 and the sources of miasmal vapours.-
 On the other hand, it has attacked
 with great violence, places the most
 remote from such influences. Arabia
 destitute of water, was fearfully rava-
 ged, and the villages at the foot fthe
 Himalaya mountains, eight thousand
 feet above the level of the sea, were
 also severely visited.
 1t has generally attacked the filthy, 1 and these who live in crowded and un- clean habitations. It nevertheless ori- ginated in country where frequent ablntions are not . pleasure, but a re- ligious duty. It spread in India over the province of Caucasus, where there are but eight inhabitants 10 square league, as well as JIindostan where r there are 1900 inhabitants on an equal space.
 For these details we arc chiefly sl- debted 10 articles in the Foreign Guar terly Review for October last, tlc