The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1848-11-11
7 II 4 CALIFORNIAN.
The Cholera.

Many people apprchend the Cholcrn may
visit this Country, as at former period, after
scourging eastern nations. Upon this subject,
DIR. JACKSON, distinguished physician of
Boston, addressed letter to friend, from
which the following is an extract. 1t will be
seen that no thinks New England will again
cscape and the reasons he gives for this ex-
pectaon will be read with peculiar interest
at this time: .. r... ..|.. ..
n do not believe that the Asiatic Cholera
will prevail to any considerable extent in the
View England States, for the geological char
lcter Of the country appeurs to be opposed
80 it, g.. ........ ... ...I .'.
believe mnde reference to the Influence
- caiCareous soils in the induction ofCholern
i'm my letters to DIR. james Jackson, on the
cholera in Vienna, which letters were pub
lished in the autumn of 1882, i'll the Boston
Medical Magazine.
here send you an extract from II lecture
which delivered in Boston on the 3lst De-
ccu,her. 1881, and have several times since
reucntcd in this and other places where
have eclurad:
"The progress of tho Asiatc Cholera
shows also that there is such II thing as Ned
tch GeoiogV for the cities situated on lime
stone or tertiary SOILS nave always suffered
most severely from that scourgc."
have repeatedly advised that on the oc-
currGuce of the cholera in this country, per-
sons who might he fearful Of that disease,
would find safe refuge in the primary re-
.ion+ ofNcw England.
jyc have right to infer that since it new
or has visited the granite countries of SwijZ
Gramd or Tyrol, in Europe, while it followed
the cncarcous districts around; md since it
did not occur in the primary. districts of
blaine, New Hampshire, Vermont or Massa-
chusotts while it did follow the cacarcous
formations through Canada, New York, Ohio
and along the Mississippi, that the c0lcoreoua
soil or waters had much TO do with the pro-
duction Of the disease.
We know that tho bowels of any Eastern
man who travels through the culcareous dis
lricls oGthc Western Suites are much dis
;lrbcd by the action of bicnrbonate of lime
which H. contained in the water, aud hence
We might naturally iniGr lhnt such a disturb
ing ca,ls0 might render the constitution more
liable to the cholera which has its seat III the
stomach aud small intestincs.
Take n map of tho globe and trace tho
course of the Asiaic cholera, and then eX-
anime into the geological character on its
track, and you Will find that it is calcareOtrs
and tlat the principal 'niduses' Cf may so
call thCm) Of the disease were on tertiary bot
toms, where tho springs and we'll waters arc
highly charged with salts of lime. Vienna
and Paris are the two best known of the cal
cercous tertiary basins, and in those cities
you well know the cholera committed its
most fearful ravages.
1t is to he hoped that the introduction Of
the Cochluate water in Boston will prove
SOLITARY to the people in more ways than have
been generally thought of. | would observe
pltInnUI RNston
salts oflimo in large propor;ions,thc are bu
few wells that contain much of the bicarbo
nate; and the muriate of lime and sulphuft
OF lime do not cause the peculiar disturbau
cos resulting from what arc called caIcareou
waters"