Litchfield enquirer., 1834-02-06


 C0uSe cf thc Cholera discorcred.-The Providence Literary Journal publishes an article from the London Lancet, cOntaiH- ing the speech of Dr. R. Tytler before tho London Medical Society, uponihe cause at ilie cholera. He attributes if to the use of bad rice, and we have never seen the ory better supported by facts.
 Dr. Tytler was a surgeon in the service of the East India Company, and was sta- toned at Jessore, where the tremendous scouYge which has since desolated the world appeared in 1877. The harvest of that year had been prematurely gathered, because that of the previous year bad fail- ed, and had been injured also by long continuance of wet weather. He proved that great quantities of bad rice had been shipped from India to various parts of the world, which had lain in The store-houses until the East India trade was thrown O. pen by Parliament. He produced speci- mems of the various kinds of rice raised in India, and directed the attention of the So- ciely to a particular species which he prov ed to be poisonous by high medical author tiles. He stated that he had spent sixteen years in Investigating the various qualities of rice.
 Tho following arc some of the facts which he stated in proof of his theory, and verified by documents and affidayits. The first case at JeSs0re was witnessed by him ; and he ascertained that the patient had eat- en a. large quantity of new rice the day be- fore his illness. The disease spread rap idly, and the natives ran away in droyes. He tried once to ascertain if the disease was contagious-he lay in the beds with the patients-drew in their breath--rub- bed himself with their limbs, and took ev- cry means to become infected, soith0ut sac- cess. He was called at this time to visit an Indigo factory, where several persons had been taken i'll of the disease, from eat- ing new rice. He asked the manager, q native, if new rice was hurtful his answer was, thew rice makes every body sick .ei,al eats it; that is the cause of the present disease.' Dr. Tytler soon discovered that the inmates of the gaol, containing 700 per- sons, amongst whom the disease was rag ing, had been eating rice. He ordered il discontinued the result was that the dis ease entirely disappeared, while it ragged with unabated violence around the gaol.-- Three brothers bought small quantity oi rice from Bengal boat, cooked and eat it, and soon after were taken with the disease and died. The Doctor was subsequently sent off to Allahadad. When he arrived Ethere all kinds of grain were scarce anc fiear, and Iiiere had been no case of the cholera. In a month many boat loads o rice arrived, and were sold in market, ant the consequence was, that Allahadad be- came second great focus for the dissemi. nation of the disease. It spread precisely as fresh supplies of rice were received.- Tn six months 10000 persons died. By his urgent solicitations, the rice was kePl out of the gaol, and not a person died oi the disease, though there were 700 within its walls. Dr.. Ty,ler stated also the facts respecting the alarming disease that pre- vailed at the Charlestown State Prison. in this State. On Friday the diet of the prisoners had been changed from potatoes to rice, and on Sunday the prison hospita was filled with patients-the diet wa changed and the prisoners recovered. II Paris and London rice of the cheapest sor (this is poisonous) was distributed by th' municipal authorities to the poor, and ev cry body knows that the cholera prevailed most amongst the poorer classes of the peo ple. A, great number of facts were stated and authorities cited by Dr. Tytler, il confirmation of his theory, which we hav' not time to notice. We have presented
 few of the most striking cases only. IL ] great discovery, and ought every wher' to be published. There is not man Il India who believes the cholera to he con tagious. We have ample evidence of .li ffacl.-Bostom Messenger.
 FUNERAL AT SEA.
 Extract of letter from Grant Ihor burn, dated at seq, Oct. -16, l83S.-Ont f ...... ...n..,,,,,,., J:ad last n;oEt