Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-07-25
E,onn the " y Spirit ofhs Times.

~ till the cholera is gOne.-N. I. Co"''
From the ~: y Spirit ofths Times.
When friend asks Us SHOW shall avoid the
choIsra " I'VE consider il a binder-draw our
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES an attitude-look wise and re-
ply. "stay in New.York." But between you
aud ], kind reader, this advice is altogether ee.
itoriai We poor editors must stay. anu " 70
marvellous to remark how entirely the advice oil
the whole fraternity illustrates that old adase'
that "Misery loves company" Not that we
think that prudent persons are greatly exposed 10
the malady-but there is feeling OF dread SO
annoying, that for our single selres. We woulo
rather be ensconced in the Notch OF the Whlte
Hills, and live-on acorns, than to be subject TO
the woful task Of screwing up our moral courage
each morning to brave the pestilence with manly
firmness.
From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but
one step. say the rhetoricians The distance Is
not greater between the solemn and the lud!crous'
| T his we can prove to you, kind reader, It you
will permit US to give an extract from our diary.
| It will both exempliiy our remark, and show the
cause of our disrelish to city residence at this
particular time, though percIIance 1t may engen'
der the suspicion that we are an atom nervous.
Il Dan in New York-July 18Th, 1882.
|
sleep is to congratulate yourself that you are yet
alive-then pass to review your stomach-your
limbs-your head-your pulse-then leap from
bed, get the use Of your feet, aud look at your
tongue. If ALPS right, you shave and commence
additions; but If. perchance, slight cramp selz-
es your foot-or sudden twinge passes through
your body-or your tongue is little furred,
down you gulp an ounce Of castor oil, and be.
speak quart Of gruel-craw back to bed, and
with eyes glistening with terror, aud features
shrunk With fear, you lay awaiting more certain
symptoms of the real Asatc. Presently you
tall asleep to dream of cramps. of buzzings IN
your ears, and sad commotion of your vitsls. 1t
however proves false alarm, the morning wears
away, and in the afternoon you get out. You set
off for your office-you meet your friends-they
congratulate YOU on your escape-express sor.
row to see you look so badly-so blue-so bill.
Gus about the eyes-al hope you will soon look
b.tter,-dont be frishtened-bad case. but have
courage,-doesn't kill haIf-attacks only the vul-
gar.-was afraid you'd have it.
Half dead with the agony you have endured
while passing your kind. consolatory friends, you
at length reach your office, throw your exhaust
ed limbs into an arm chair-ask forthe evening
paper, with view to withdraw your distracted
: mind from all thoughts of Cholera, when the
street and number, glaring in the report OF the
Board Of Health, and your own case returned
dead.
= vp~tne ralnthess If death creeps over YOU
you are too weak to curse the editor or the Off
cious doctor. Recovering little you stagger
home. order tea. and try to compose yourself.
Bed time arrives-you are preparing 10 retire,
when your agItated nerves are shocked by the an
nouncement Of the death of man you just pass.
ed in the street. Pale, trembling, frightened.
you reach your chamber-yOur mouth dryer than
cottoE-your feet colder than marble. In hopes
OF failing to sleep you lie down-the light is left
burning,-it soon seems to burn b!ue-you hear
the tick Of a "death watch" within foot of your
head,--you turn and toss.-court sleep IN every
possible way.-repeat half forgotten verses, talk
aloud-even whistle,-say the multiplication ia.
BILE backwards-then pain darts through you,-
you feel for tits gone,-a chill is upon you.-
then you are bathed in perspiration--then cold
again,-you TALL asleep.-hear the cry of fire.
leap up frightened by the light Of your lamp
blow it out.--lie down,--exhaustion comes to
your relef-you slumber now and then till morn
ing, when you again congratulate yourself that
| you are yet alive.
Surely "tongue cannot tell, nor paint brush
paint" the miseres Of nervous man, residing in
New York at this eventfuI period.
Causes and Origin Of the Cholera Morbm, or
Cholera Asphyria. and IF the remedies which
can best preuen or couaieractit.
I have been no better off in arriving immedi.
ately at conclusive opinions than many other in.
tellisent observers of the perplexing and prodi-
gous epidemic now lowering over us. Yielding,
however, to several friends who desire or request
me to publish whatever opinions l have adopted
on that subject, take the liberty ofIaying down
a few ascertained points, BY which the known
facts we possess OH the Cholera. or those hereaf.
ter observed, may be more lucidIy disposed, and
arranged so as to lead inquiry, ultimately, with.
out fail, tothe proxlmate and universal origin Of
this nervous di'temper.
We know that the general causes of the epide.
mic cholera are two fold. dependent OH and ema-
mating from the atmosphere which surrounds US,
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