The Arkansas advocate., 1832-07-18
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 1 pestilcnce, after having dcsolatcd Asia and part of Europe with its fearful and continually repealed rayages, sweeping of in it's career, according 10 the com mon computations, atIcast .t1ly millions 1 Q hamda, beines, las al length reached tie western shores ot the Atlaniic.- Nfatmay be its future advance, wheth- CT tic vast expanse ot water may not ar- rest it's furtber progress, and preserve us from its appalling sisiiations, CT whether We also are destined 10 be reached and struck down in its irressti- ble career of desolation, are specula- tions which may well demand the most i anxious inquiry, stir up the most Y atch- 1 inl vigilance, and excite feelings of jus tiflablc and salutary alarm in thc GFir- e6t minds. Since tho ioartcenth cen- tury there has not been known in the world, so wide spread and fatal a mal- ady.
 Me leave to medical men the medical history of the disease. Very numerous publications have been made in India and in Europe, to guide and direct them. If, i'll the course Of events, Ii shall .afllict our own country, We do not doubt that 1t will be met by our pro- fessional men with characteristic firm ness, and treated with all the skill de- rived from the lights of science and ex. perience of the old world. What we proposcis, simply to collect and repub- fish for the information of our readers, from such sources as are within our reach, some of the most prominent and curious facts and circumstances con- nected with the history of. tho ,nalady.
 It is not uniformly admitted to be true, that the eholera,--the name by which the pestllence is improperly known, although said 10 have none of the peculiar symptoms of cholera pro- pcr,--isa new disease, within the pre- sent century. The physicians of India who have treated Of it, found records 1 of it's existence at very remote periods. Il was at Bengal in E7G2, and carried oil 3g,00G persons, and returned again ia i7Si. Il was at Madras in i7r14. at the Mauritius in ITS, and in Arcot in l7S7. lis also said to have appear cd in the epidemic form in England, in l663 and IO1G.
 However the identity of these dis eases may De settled, the present cho- lera made it's first appearance on the 2sth of August, Iol7, at Jessore, a town situated northeast of Calcutta about lO0miles. InScptember,itreach cd Calcutta. During the year ISIS, it spread in different directions from Calcutta; northward to Delhi; west ward to Bombay, which it reached in September, 1918; soutbward to Mad rass, which il reached in October, ISl9; and eastward along the coast of the Bay of Bengal, to the kingdom of African, where it arrived in the commencement of 1919. The whole of the lndian Pe- nlnsula, containing si1 hundred ttootsond square miles, was thus traversed by the cholera in about year. It's progress eastward continued to be rapid. From African, 1t extended 10 Siam, and af- ter destroying 10000 persons in Baka or Bankok, the capital of that king dom, it passed through the Peninsula ot Malacca, successively visited the islands of Sumatra, Java and Borneo, and in 1920 reached Canton, and rav- aged the Philippine and Spice islands. in less than two years, it had thus tra- Yersed and rayaged a space in Asia, not less than 1900 leagues in length, and thousand in breadth, or nearly oae hundled and tsventy millions ofsquare miles.
 Its western progress towards Europe continued, but with various rapidity. From Bombay, it proceeded in 1891, in one direction along the coast to the Gulf of Ormus, and the Persian Gulf, attacking the islands also ;--and eros sing the Arabian Sea, 1t appeared on the opposite shore, and followed the coast there up the same Gulfs, on the Arabian side. Passing up both sides in Arabia and Persia, 1t attacked Bassora with great violence, carrying off fifteen thousand or eighteen thousand, or more than one-fourth of the whole population in fourtcen days. Shortly after, it separated into two iranches, one Of which ascended to Astracan, a large and populous town, situated at the mouth of the Nolga, on the northern shore of the Caspian Sea, which 1t reached in September, l823;--and by the other, passed through and rayaged Arabia, Mesapotamia and Syria, to ! LIZ