Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1848-12-21
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1913.

DECEMBER u, lS4S.
The CHoLERA.-It seams TO be the belief that
this scourge has at length reached our shores, and
the vicinity where we live. We shall offer no ex-
cuse for the space which we devote to this subject
in te-day's paper. We give not only the manner
OF preventing its attack and its cure by those from
abroad, but all original production upon the same
subject from the ren of our fellow citizen. DR..
ScRsroaLEY, whose lucid remarks i~nstigated prin>
"cipal!y from observation in Europe, during the for
mer period when this fearful malady visited the
earth, will be perused with interest by our readers.
1T is certainly a strange disease, this Cholera,
and those who, like ourself, sixteen years ago, wit
messed cases Of its attack and progress in the human
system, til. the eyes<were closed in death, must have
been deeply impressed with the awful change of
face and forts which a few leurs' struggling with
the invisible enemy created. The flesh would
shrink up and become sallew, the form bend as
with: the weight Of time, and the eyes sink deep
into the head-the youth Of twenty, who had yield
ed bis spirit teits attack, had become in a few hours
like the corpse of sixty winters! There can he no
parallel, certainly, Of a plague which creates such
mournful and fearful change-undergeing IN feur
hours all the vieissitades of the system which forty
years effects.
most generally disagree as to the best method Of
preventing its attack-aier It has attacked. hope
for a favorable result is vague indeed; we speak
from a knowledge of the former type of the dis
ease. In our opinion there is bnt one mede which
offers the snrest to escape and that is to get the
system, n, as healthful a state as it is possible TO do
when the scourge is expected; every Que should
havea sufficient knowledge Of himself to know in
what manner It is best TO effect this; but all should
be equally careful in our humble Judgment not to
,amper with the regularity or iiealthfuIness Of their
digestive organs, If they are fortunate in this res
pect, either by the swallowing Of imaginery pre-
ventive drugs. relinquishing the CUSTOMARY diet.
through fear or through undue excitement. Mode-
ration in ali things is the surest way of preventing
disease Of any description, and this moderation is
essential not only in what relates to the body, but
also to the mind, and with respect to the Cholera,
this consideration Is all important. With regard
particularly to what kind of food to use, which
S"1hs W MIC SiootCst iupoItuHCe Will udsly, uldt
they may the more certain escape the Infection, we
would say for ourself that if we had previously
lived beautifully and cheerfuIly on b-ickbats, we
would not risk changing the COED condition of our
system on the approach of an epidemic, by the
use of dirt only: we should continue to eat what
we had been accustomed to eat: like the Kam-
skatchians or New Zealanders, if we lived healthy
and grew strong by drinking whale oil, VIC would
not nausea our stomach and court sickness by the
use Of another diet. The fact is, undoubtedly, with
regard to the Cholera, as with the yellow fever and
other epidemics, it rests almost entirely upon the
temperament of the person whether or not they are
liable to an attack. And this truth comes with the
more force when we reiect how mauy persons, Of
the most unexceptionable habits-fair ones, too,
whose whole life has been naught but the sweetes,
purlty-are struck down by the epidemic, while
the brawler and the inebriate 60 unscathed. In
fine, we have keown more to escape the Cholera,
who went their way carelessIy and fearIessly, eat
ing what they chose and drinking their half dozen
'horns" a day, if they saw proper, than those who
were exceedingly careful how they lived.
The above remarks emanate from an editor and
not a physician. They are given as the impress of
our own mind, not that we wish to influence 9TH
ers, and with all Difference to the opinions of those
who may differ with us.
IVA further despatch has been received from
California. which will rnnp;yo "a cnecial ynoer,co