Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-07-27
CHOLERA Az DETROIT.

fHNQUeiphid
er, dated
m DErnoir, July -, 1882
Dear Sir The cholera has essentially ubatcd i'm
TINS CITY, No new cases have occurred within tho
last twenty four hours. One two deaths from
previous cases have occurred. Several have no
covered, and the remainder appear TO be GONZALES
cling.
From the encampmcnt of the remnant of rcpu
lar troops near Fort Gratiot, information has To-
day been received. The disease is disappooriuy
there also. Col. Twiggs has nearly recovered
DIR. Everett is very doubtful case. The worst
aPprehensions are entertained with regard to his
tate. Those two gentlemen, with poor CLAY of
New Jersey, arc the only officers that have been
attacked.
The remnant of Col. CvMMrNo's command, en-.
IanPed at Springs wells, below this town, is near
free from the disease, two or three only of tho
soldiers being unwell, but not dangerously So
The steamboat Henry Clay has been most un.
or'uh1,e: Shc left our river for Buffalo on Mon
aSy. before she arrived ut Cenveland, three moro
oil her crew we're taken sick one of whom died.
and before she left Cleaveland, two more we're at
tackled. She had previously lost her second cngi.
neer and cook. s'-
From Cleaveland we learn that one case has oc-
CURED there.
The schooner Napoleon, chartered. as a vessel
10 take stores and provisions for our army at Chi
cago' LETT hero on Monday. Captain Hincklev.
a -, commander, died before she arrived at Lake
,i"on. out ne had been sick some DAYS before
he left this place. Yours truly,
JOHN NoRvELI.
ROBERT MORRIS, Esq.
Choiera among Blaeks-Tho subioined Letter was
addressed to the Editors of the New YORK Co.,
mercIal by highly respectable ge u,leman of south
carolina. They deemed it proper to submit tho
queries it contains TO DR.. A. III. Stevens President
OIL inc Medical Committee, appointed by the corpo-
ratoh' whose answer is annexed.
Walterboro, s. C.. July H. 1892
Intelligence has just reached US that the Cholera
mas appeared in your city. The owners of negroes
mere are IN great apprehension that should it reach
us its desoiation among that class of our popula
uoh wiz be extensive.-They are not subject to
the yellow fever of this climate: and statement in
your paper that, in Montreal, the blacks were nm.
afected with cholera, has induced the hone that
.ney NAY DC exempt from this scourge also. Sit
uatcd as the blacks here are often in large crowds
without the presence of an intelligent white man
and without ready access to medical aid no one can
Imagine what will be the consequences should This
pestilonce prevail among them-It is the part of
wisdom aud humanity TO be in a state of prepara
ton.
AS connected with measures that may be adopt
ed, all arc anxious to know more of the facts re-.
,a.ve 10 the exemption of the blacks>in Montreal,
,neir number, their mode of living, and the proba
Die causes OF their exemption. All arc DESTROYS 10
learn whether in the crowded and filthy domicils
Oh new, Y DIRK, occupied by blacks, the malady has
o1'oHueo' ana, II any, what proportion attack
in such places IN your city, the blacks should
De safe, we may reasonably hope that its rayages
here In the same class will be light
nave been requested by several gentlemen to
make inquiry; and though have no claim upon
YOU yet, as you have opportunities of information
INFERIOR 10 none, and as the of humanity is
oeepiy interested, L have taken the liberty to ad-
dress you, and now earnestly desire that should it
suit your convenience, early reply to the queries
suggested may appear in your paper, together
with any other information which you may Doom
probably beneficial .
take, / am respectf,IIv
your obedient servant.
In reply to your letter of this date, inform YOU
that according to the best of my observation. the
malignant Cholera in this city and neghborhood
has attacked with equal frequency and violence no
groes mulattoes and white persons.
am, &c. ALEX. II. STEVENS.
Chambers-street, July 90, 1892.
VI The Lexington Union, contains an interest.
ing letter from Physician (conjectured DIR. Caru-
theirs, Tin New York, upon the Cholera.
New YoRK, July 9Th, 1882.
"Dear Sir: As the Cholera is the all enqrossinp
theme now, and every body seems anxious TO
know some OF the pecuarties of this mysterious
cSease' nave thought it best to address a very
lew remarks on the subject, 10 you, from which
you can Gull any thing to suit the enquiries, or
quiet the fears o. your readers. In Canada and in
TINS City, the Cholera heralded in by long and
constant blowing of east and south east winds
!. proke out mere III the east and south east side of
the City first. ~ -
There is but one opinion here amongst medical
men as TO It's contagious nature-not one believes
IN contagion; 1t is evidently atmospheric All per-
sons breathing the poison suffer more or less.
Inc frst general symptoms amongst the commu
NIFTY at large, are loss appetite low spirits sense
OF weight and sinking about the stomach, bowel
complaint, sometimes nausea. These svmptoms
increase until the poison thus operates for little
whie, taen all the diseases assume a cholerick
character-presently, the old topers begin to non
OIL: they are seized with ii violent spasm in the
stomach, Immediately succeeded by others in the
caves OF the legs, Thugs and arms; the hands look
coioured with indigo for "a hours; the feet have
The same al pearance; the stomach and bowels are
orawn close back against the spinal tube: yomit
ings and objections like cruel or rice wafer
the eyes look CLASSY, the countenace swell
ca or bloated, the tongue covered with white
hr' and altogether, the patient forms one of the
most pitiabic objects of human SUFFERING Won can
well imagine. On Post Mortem examination here
the stomach and bowels are in the condition which
the french Pathologsts term, Ramolisments that
u.s. the internal and nauscous tissues are dissolved
ana disorganized; and this is their condition with
sPosns: 1T is then too late for human aid But
mere is premonjtory stage when it is perfectly
curaoie after The sinking, &c. above described
oowel complaint comes on, and then is the time
Tor the Calomel and Morphinc these used until the
nee water Objections are changed for those of a
DARK bilious character, and then the patient will
III all probability, weather out this fearful struggle
SAFE These is nothing like living frugal and tenn
Perate, and Judiciously regards exposure; even;
hannel all summer-be cheerful and above all be
resolute and calm"
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William and Mary College.
FHSHE Lectures in this Institution will coin.