Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1832-10-31
CHOLERA.
Ertract from DR.. Beeman's address to the Mayor
and Common Council of Tie citu of Trou.

CITdCt from Dr. Deenfdn'S GddTeSS 10 the mayor
and Common Council Of The city Of Troy.
Persons who hurry into excess and dissipation,
become the first victims of the Cholera. This
fact is written in letters of blood on every page
OF Its sad history in Asia and Europe 1t is wo-
ven into many shroud-inscribed upon the lids
OF ten thousand co6fns--and might form the APP
Proprlate INSCRIPTION upon an equal number Of
tomb stones! If the sons of pleasure and self
Indulgence will not take warning, THEY MUST DIE
With respect to the declaration that the Chole-
ra as disease principally depending for its eris.
tence and n'dlignancy on the use of ardent spirits
shall not deal in speculation, but rest the whole
matter on well authenticated and recorded facts
On this point we have the concurrent testimony
ol most OF the physicians who have had the op.
portnnly OF observing the progress Of this disease
IN Asia, Europe, and America. Dr. Rieche
informs MS that in China 1.-THE disease selected
It's victims from among such of the people as live
IN filth and intemperancc.4 Ranohun Fingee
the famous Indian doctor, SAYS. that "people who
do not take spirits or opium, do not take this dis
osder, even when they are with those who have
pc" In the army under the command Of the
Marquis of Hastings, in India, consisting of 49,.
200 men, more than 5000 died in the first twelve
days. And every one knows, that soldiers, es-
habits OF iatemperance. Dr. Jonenichin of Mos.
COW declares that drunkenness, debauchery. bad
food, and personal indiscreions, were individually
Its predlsposing causes. Monsieur Huber. who
saw2l50 persons perish in twenty five DAYS (more
than 90 day) in one town in Russia, saws, cit
is most remarkable circumstance that persons
given to drinking have been swept away like flies.
In Iifllis, containing 10000 inhabitants erery
d''unkard has fallen! All are dead-not one re
mains" A physician of Warsaw states, that
the disease spared all those who led regular
lives and resided in healthy situations; whereas
they whose constitutions had been broken down
by excess and dissipation were invariably attack
ed. Dat of one hundred individuals DESTROYED
by the Cholera, it was proved that ninety had
been addicted to the free ofsprituous liquors -
II is stated, that after the decline of the epidemic
at Riga, the occurrence of the Whtesun HOLIDAYS
caused temporary augmentation of new cases
from the Indulgence in Intoxicating drinks and
irregularities incident to a POPULAR (religious9)
"festival.'-Dr. Becker, whose extensive expert.
ence entities his opinion to deep respect, has re
corded this caution; "Abope all things, avoid in
temperance, which at Berlin, as every where else
has been found TO render lis voaries the first VIC
tins to this destructive pestilence" The London
Morning Chronicle rema rlss, that ssiaseupcrance
gives claim to the pestilence which It never
overooks. In every town and every district, from
the Ganges to the Wear, the drunkard has been
the object OF its earliest attack, and its most ruth
less visitation" The London Morning Herald
observes, that "The same preference for the in
temperate and unclean has characterized the
Cholera every where. lntemperance is quail
fcation which it never overooks. Often has it
passed harmless over wide population of tenn
perate country people, and poured down as an
overlooking scourge upon the drunkar,is of some
distant town." The Edinburg Board of Health
says, Experience has shown that the most essen
ial precaution for escaping the disease is sobrety
that intoxlcation during the prevalence of the
epidemic is almost sure to be followed by an at
TACK and that those addicted to drink are the most
subject to Cholera and the most likely to sink
under it." The Journal of Humanity states,
that Sin Poland nne-tenths of those who died of
the Cholera, were known to be brandy drinkers.
In Paris the victims of the disease were, with few
exceptions, among the lower classes, all of arhona
drink Intoxicating liquors to excess. In Mont
real, after 1900 had been attacked, Montreal
paper says, 'not a drunkard who has been attack
ed has recovered of the disease, and almost a IL
the victims have been at least moderate drinkers.
DR.. Thomas Sewau, of Washington city, tells
US, that ''the epicure and the Incorporate have
no safety but in speedy and thorough reforma-
ton. Wherever Cholera has prevailed, it has
invariably sought out the drunkard and the disso-
lutte, and made them its earliest victims. TOTAL
ABSTINENCE from all fermented liquors should be
obserped." "Choera," says DR.. Bronson, in
letter from Montreal, 'has pleaded the cause of
temperance most eloquentIy and with tremen-
dous effect. The habitual use of ardent spirits
in the smallest quantity, seldom fails to invite
the Cholera, aud to render it ncurable when it
takes place. Fire sirths of all who have fallen
by the disease in England. it is computed. were
iaken from the ranks of the Incorporate and the
dissoIute." DIR. Rhineander, of the city Of New
York, who had all opportunity Of witnessing the
Cholera in Montreal, recommends "entire absti-
nence from spirituous liquors" Temperance"
saws he, sin every shape is the great preventive
We may ask who are It's victims? / answer the
intemperate-it invariably cuts them offs
School STATIsTICs.-About one third Of the
whole population of country are between the
ages of three and sixteen or eighteen; and of
= 'mrse are proper subjects Of school education.
In the United States, more than four millions
Of children ought to be under the influence of
schools.
Ia Maine the law requires that the inhabitants of
very town pay annually for the supper, of schools,
e sum equal, NJ least to forty cents for every per-
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