Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1848-03-04
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
AND REMEDY

away its thousands Of victims. We perceive
that the authorities of several of the lead.
ing towns in England and France have al
ready adopted such preventative measures
as have been suggested by past experience
and the advice of the most eminent medical
men. Thus far the American public and
authorities have done nothing. The scourge
is yet remote, and but little alarm has been
excited. Sooner or later, however, we may
anticipate its arrival on our shores. What
then should be done in the meanwhile?-
! Would it not be wise in the nation at large,
through its representatives. to appoint a
medical commission of the highest charac-
ter, with the object of visiting the scenes
of this disease, ascertaining the best pre-.
ventatives as we'll as remedies, and Of re-
turning home at the earliest moment, for
the purpose Disseminating among the peo
pie at large. the information that may thus
be collected? In France, commissioners
have already been sent 10 examine the na-
ture of the disease, the best mode of treat
ment, &C. We believe, also, that during
the last visit of cholera to the American
continent medical commissioners were ap-
pointed by several of our leading cities, and
their abors were attended with the most
beneficial results. The present, therefore,
is the time to act. A correspondent Of the
London Times, who says that during the
visitation Of this dreadful malady, in 1892,
he paid great attention to the cause, mode
of propagation and check of the pestllence,
gives these as his conclusions:
|. That the cause of cholera is q putrid
animal poison, capable of being recognised
by the smell by some, emanating from and
surrounding the dead or living cholera sub
iect or articles Of clothing
That it is not sulphurretted hydrogen,
or hydrosulph of ammonia, as it does
no, decompose salts of lead or link, and
when passed through nitrate of silver. it
only forms a red solution when exposed to
the light
8 That ii is only received into the living
body through the lungs. and cannot be prop
agatcd by innoculation.
That infection can be conveyed by
articles Of clothing, bedding. &c: and that
washerwomen are more subject to lniec-
ton than ordinary persons, from that cause.
That all persons are not equally liable
to infection from equal exposure, and even
the same individual becomes more sensitive
under certain circumstances.
That the poison is destroyed by chIor-
inc gas, and a heat of 800 degrees of Fab
renheit.
He says further that the only chemical
preventive which he depended upon in his
numerous exposures TO the virus, was CHOIR
inc gas and this he believes 10 be perfect
one, when the fumigaton is complete. He
says.
Il invariably passed through an atmos-
phere of it on my return home, and kept il
escaping in my residence during the con-
tinuance of the disease in the city. also
placed large quantities of the substance
necessary for the evolution of the gas in
the hands of a Bristol druggist, who was
kind enough TO distribute 1900 quantities
of it gratnitously to applicants during three
days. with instructions for the use--and am
happy 10 say, that during that time the
deaths fell from ten TO one per day; and |
have bu, little doubt that if every ship. ar.
irving in England from an infected place.
should be exposed to perfect tumigaliOn
with chlorine, we shall be preserved from
the Infection. If the disease should pass
this Gordon, by any accident, then every
house in the infected district should be |
simultaneously fumigated with it-say three |
tines dav. Unless done in all houses at |
the same time, it would be useless or nearly |
so end to do it effectualiy, mixture of !
thee parts ofcommon salt, and one of black
OXIDE of manganese. should he placed just
inde the outer or street door of the dwell
ine house. and little common vi.rol pnurd |
upsn it. The inward current of air will |
convey the chlorine gas to every part Of
the interior; and wherever it can he smell,
the effect is produced, the miasm is DESTROY
cd. If articles of clothing are infected, aud
hecolors likely to be injured by the gas,
thS may be heated. in an oven or on a
XIII, to $50 or 800 degrees, (ahove the heat
of baking bread when they might be han
del or used with perfect impunity."
We may add that the writer is VIM.
IIgapetb, a celebrated chemist of Bristol.
England.
DR.. Dickson, in his work entitled the
"PincipIes of the Chrono,hermaI System
of Medcine." argues that cholera will be
found to partake Of the same universal type
of disease, the ague. While in India, he
hat ample opportunities of discovering this
Cplera. he thinks is an extreme of the cold
stage of aguc, and with regard 10 remedies,
he says.
Attention 10 temperature comprehends
everything that has either failed or sue
ceaed. Were myself to become the sub.
jec of it, | should feel inclined to trust
more to a bottle of brandy than any thing
contained in the Materia Medica. While
serving in the East Indies. saw many
huIdred cases of the disorder, but | never
cold convince myself of the superiority /:
of my one kind of active medical treatment