The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-12-21

The CHoLERA.-It was reported yesterday
that the Alex Scott passed up from New Or
leans with several cases of Asiatic Cholera
We do not know how the story originated,
and do not put the slightest credence in it,
There may have been sickness on board
but it could not be the Cholera, We should
have heard of it at New Orleans some time
ago if this had been the case. Those who
have watched the progress of the disease, as
sert, that its rate of travel and date of vista
ton within the last twelve months, have
proved very similar to its progress over the
same region of Europe in l83l-if this simil-
arity shall continue in this country we may
hope to be spared the scourge for several
moD.hs yet
Appropos is the following letter, caused to
be published by DR.. Thos. Miller, President Of
the Board of Health of New York City. The
original was addressed to journalist in Con-
stantinople, and was written in French, of
which the following is a correct translation:
COURIER DE CoNsTANTINoPLE," Oct. IA, l848.
"SIR: Having been, In the hands of ProyI-
dence, an humble instrument of discovering an
''infallible" remedy for cholera morbus. even
in the most desperate cases, |. hasten to COM
municate to your estieIable journal the treat
ment by which, with Gods assistance, have
quickly succeeded in curing the patient 1t is
as follows
Gas soon as the vomiting and diarrhGa be-
gin, put the patients legs up to the knees In
water, as hot as the hand can bear; throw into
it six or seven handfuls of course salt; let the
legs be rubbed for half an hour by two strong
persons, using both their hands. Open the
large vein of each foot, and let 1t bleed in the
hot water from twelve 10 twenty minutes, &C
cording to the sex. age, and strength of the pa
tient. During this time, add more hot water
as it becomes cold, the natural animal heat
will return Immediately throughout the whole
body as well as consciousness. The patient
will soon speak and ask for food. He will be
perfectly able to resume his ordinary duties al
ter one or two days.
"Of sixty peasants attacked with cholera
whom have seen, several had been suddenly
attacked while at work in the fields; others,
after having retired in perfect health TO bed
and been asleep part of the night, were awak
ened at dawn of day with the usual symptoms
in the greatest intensity; and although assist
ance was rarely obtained before the expiration
of half an hour or even one or tKo hours(some-
times six or eight hours, and once ten hours
had elapsed all have been restored to perfect
health in such wise as to be able to resume
their business five or six days after being at
tackled, in some cases on the next or third day.
1t has happened, though rarely, that, the blood
not flowing long enough, the patient has been
bled second time, this second time in the
arm and not in the foot. In no case has the
treatment failed.
ga remarkable feature of the efficacy of the
treatment is the immediate and perfect re-es-
tablishment of their health in all of the pa
tients, who, instead of losing their strength,
seemed, Oh the contrary, to have acquired new
vigor.
EIn future the visit of the cholera will
excite less apprehension in the public than
an epidemic of influenza
81 have the honor, &c,
John BARKER,
''Former Consul Gen. of England, in Egypt.