The Arkansas advocate., 1832-12-12
From the Gqfeaiala.

Ghofera.- i.ls pestilenee still eoii- t!sses se iaseess::..ill ;s;Gaseagg ;s;;Gaseag Gases haXeoeeuffed duriag the last week, one oi which proved fatal.
 V have seen so many articles in newspapers and pamphlets on the cpl demle Cholera, written by those who nave never seen case oi 1t, and con sequently know nothing about it, that we have long since concluded that the public have exhibited fen errors to one truth. This, in ordinary matters. would not produce much alarm; but "hensnaens particularly medical men, sendziorth traatises on q disease, about which they know nothing, and thereby Promuigate errors, by the adoption of which many lives might be lost, which could have been saved, great evil will certainly be the result. To slate a few practical facts in relation 10 tho treat ment of Cholera, and not 10 enter into labored theory of the pathology Of the disease is the sole object of the pre- sent remarks.
 Aii the claim the editor of this pa. per has to know any thing more about the disease than those who wrote in other papers is, that he is a physician, and has been constantly among the dis ease during the last three smonths. " hen 1t first made it's appearance in Gaiena, afterwards on board of steam boats, then at Rock Island during is prevalence in the army, be was con stantly among it.
 We will now proceed to give the public the result of his mi ute obserya- tions on the Cholera, Or SC much there. of as may be of service to all who live ous osstlac reach, of immediate medical aid.
 s.ynptoms-Slght uneasincss in the bowels, succeeded by discharges of a li- quld nearly colorless, and abont the conscience of weak rice water. voidetI without pain or effort. Nausea, end vomiting of the same kind of liquid. qe. neraily follow; extreme pros:ration. shrinking of the surface, change of voice from common 10 strained. and shrill tone, cold in the extrcmities. 2 sinking of the pulse, slight spasms at tlrst, which rapidly increase until they. beocme general over the whole body. limbs, Nc. which soon snbside. and leave theperson withoutpain, are among the most common symptoms which cha. racterise the disease.
 Cause-Ihe remote cause is not l.. I t.
 known, but its generally supposed that something floats in the atmosphere pe- cullaFiy calculated to produce this pc cuiiar disease, but as that is not impor- tantln founding our treatment of the disease, We avoid hazarding any hypo- thesls upon 1t at this time and proceed to give what IS we'll aseeftaiued to he the prorimdte couse.
 he immediate cause is diminish ed, or an entire want of secretion of bile Tn the liver. This is manifested by the want of color in the discharges.- Whenever bile is mixed with the con tents 'of the intestines, the eyacuatioDs wlll be eolored yellow, green or dark. It Is well known fact. that the pntr,- menl IS not fitted for absorption until il IS mixed with the bile from the liver. and when that ceases to he formed and mixed with the contents Of the alimen- tary canal, Inordinate discharges must be the result. The mouths Of the ab. sofbcnt vessels refuse to take up the nu. triment until bile is added 10 excite their action, hence, like any foreign substance, the contents are discIiareed
 he entire want of absorption ac- counts for thesnddcn prostratior,, |, ,slf,riinlx- ing of the surface. coldness of the ex- srcmitics, diminished circulation and