The Arkansas banner., 1848-11-28
4som tAe London Times, 27 Seys.
 THE ENHLERl.


 The rrpeFi furnished by the late hiIls of mortality Of the sanitary condition sf tbs sesroplis s to se fall satisfactory ts,e incidents af and the character Of our Arrangements could porsnt Us to expect LoHdea has seldom hsen more healthy i in any September than the present.
 I Is, perhaps, substantially correct to say, that thirty yeaEs experience has not brought us percels uhiy nearer to he discovery Of any ktente against the cholera; hut we have at least learnt ehcari l from our familiarity with tlsis epiemie t6 aaaiify I the terror with which its first appearauce is fhe West was naturally regar,ied Indeed. we are now i n Possession of the most useful of all nntidOes 10 panic reasonable information. Short of those noei- tive specifies which natare rarely supplies there is I nothing which efIeesnsify neutraiixes the vira- ence of a disease ihtei,igeBt comurehensiDn | of it's visible character. Whether the resned,es which have been lately introduced to public notice in our columns may be ionn nd serVicealy or other. wise We cannot pretend 10 decide, bat of ftbis we are sure, that there s no medicine like seifB possession Sober nindedness aud maniness make a far better | prescription than assafoe ida and opium, and are 1 more iafably and inexhaastibly at hand All the 1 empiracle recipes of the East do not contain such an aniidote as En dish good sense ought to extsact from observation and rehectioR.
 II Is needless 10 say that the cholera Is not here and that we need not alarm ourselves until it coies although perhaps, considering the irregular and i consistent progress of the epidemic almost any ap- prehensions of it's arrival might b. considered as premature. If the plague were at Hamburgh, we might calculate on its extension to London; but so eccentric and uncertain is the course of the cholera that it may possibly finger for weeks in the Baltic without ever crossing the Channel. It Is mere | sensible, however 10 conceive the contingency as l probable, and here we must express our conviction that the more steadily the event is looked at the less formidable will it appear. Cholera, it Is true not withsianding all human science, Is still a wide sPrea ing and destructive msIady, but is not the frghtful scourge which depicted in our imari- nation sixteen years ago. We now know that 1t Is not contagious that it's attack is neither sudden nor irresistible, that its devastaons in a well-oriered state are not such to panic, and that if its worse stage exhibits irremediabe symptoms, such symptoms are not the sale or nsegorabe manifesta- lions ot cholera, but rather, h fact analogous to such as are presented in the last stages of all | disease alike Convulsioas and collapses are ord- narily fatal whatever may be the denomination of the s>rder but they do not more inevitably super vene in cholera than in any other complaint.
 The established fact that cholera is not coutagi- ous, or in ether words, is not propagated by touch | or proximity. Is chiefly encouraging, as demosh- | ing atonce all those inhumane and unnatural pre- cautions which are dictated by he jealousy of fear Of course if disease is communicated by the at- mosPheTe il runs it's course just as surely and as fully as if it were c0mmun unicated by contact frotn patient to patient, and influenza may thus be just as destructive as any modification of the plagne Bot then, when there is dread of this personal infec- tIveness. human feelings and human science can retain their ordiaaty influences, and there is ne chance Of our feilowcreatures being left to perish hslples=ly when prompt and sensible interference 1 might have securely saved them. This is no ne cessity in tine case of cholera for any isolation of victims or any of the barbarous apparatus of i6sa- rettos and pest-houses. A man may be treated in his own bed, and by his own family, quietly aud safely as if he only suffering from gout. No hazard whatever is incurred by careful ministra- ton 10 the wants of the patient by a steady ob- scrvation of the disease, nor need any alarm, Us far cou;ngcn gocs, be created in any house by 1n attack Of cholera than by attack oi lumbago.
 In the next place, it is now pretty well ascertained that the sndd 'nness of the seizure, which was 50 terrifying feature in the disease, has been greatly misrepFesented and that, in fact. the cholera is often singular.y mild in it's commencement, pre- sen'ing unusual opportu mites for timely antd 5tes IL k almost always preceded by disorder of the bowels, lasting frequently for some length of time and this premontory symptom has been nd ts yield reI.iiiy to mild and ordinary treatment, so that the more notorious features of the epidetnic may be conceived the characteristics merely 0! an aggravated and neglected ID, V. l. must be re- menlbered, t,o, that against no known disease are precautions more readily taken than against cholera No provisions of diet or regimen will guard against consumption or fever, but the simplest care taken of the stomach will prove something very like a sure andote 10 this dreaded epidemic. An amou nj oi caution which would b. scarcely effective against the contingency ot Common cold, has been proved almost infaiiibe preserva'iye in the case oi u the safety of any individual might humanly speak ing, be almost certainly insured; and what is more the conditions involve nothing beyond the most accessible ails.
 Lastly, we shall probably be surprising many oi our readers by saying that the ascefiained rasages of this complaint far less than those of more or dindry disorders The cholera has already attacked England, and il s perfectly that il did not carry off nearly many in the metropolis during the whole course of it's visitation the iaHuenza carried of last winter in London. 4 siekly season
 deficient harvest, any such accident visitation might aggravae auy of the Baturalizrd diseases Of our itnate into scourge fur destructive ct human lfe than the cholera has vet shown itself amongst us. But for the pecul name, character and derivation of the disease twice as many victim. might have fallen in 1881 did actually fall with out creating any general panic being ihought to call for any extraordinary bulletins. It would 1 surely be derogatory 10 our national character for ? ain sense and courage if We were To show our selves behind our continental neighbors await ng with ioTitude aud intelligence the vsitstions which 1t may please PROVIDENCE to send, or. if by means oi groundiess panic, We 10 invest the uiaIady with uose destructive powers of which climate our civilization, our resources and our experience all couspiFe ,O deprive i Near and folly furnish io9r-htllis of the fatality of the cholera.