Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1848-11-10
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
The ChOlera-A PrOXimate CauSe-A Law
by which 1t is GOVerned-A PrODhylatic,

Being neither PathoIogist or Geologst. un
dertake with much difiidence, to lay before tht
public Theory on the subject of Asiatic Cholera
which originated with me sixteen years since
and then struck me very forciby as being wei
founded; and although il varies so widely from
the diverse Theories of those distinguished men
both of Europe and this country, who have
written on the subject, feel constrained from
recent investigation, TO believe that there is nc
longer reasonable doubt of its being well
grounded: therefore, in the hope that it may
prove the means Of saving many from the fangs
of that fell destroyer, submit the following
facts and observations:
When the Cholera swept over the union in
1898, it passed around West Tennessee
(where | then resded) and fell with extreme
violence on Middle Tennessee being aware (by
erperienCe) ofthe great difference in the pro.
perIies OF the waters ofthe two districts-that oI
The former being free of all calcareous or mag.
nesian elements, that of the latter being strong.
Iy impregnaed with one or both of them-I
was led TO believe that those Gcarbonised miner
ais must have something TO do with giving ac.
uvlty TO the miasm Tor whatever it may be call.
ed) of this malignant epidemic subsequent in.
vcstigation has confirmed-as hope-the truth
of the Theory, and the following facts, in ad.
dlIion TO the foregoing, may be adducsd in sup
port Of it.
The seaboards ofthe States of the North and
South Carolina (urd believe Georgia and Flo.
rda) were exempt from Cholera, except few
cases in seaports, so far as can learn: this ex-
tensve district comprises a tertiary sand and
aIIuvlal region of nearly a thousand miles in
extent, embracing the greatest extent of nsal.
ubrious country in the Union: but no calcareous
water is used there, and ifthere be any, it must
be IN the rivers having their sources in the up.
per country.
Huntsville, Ala, was not visited by the epi.
demic, being based upon sandstone; while It fell
with dreadful severity on Fayetteville, Pulaski,
and other places situated on the blue Limestone
Lower Silurian. )-[See Christy's Geological
Map.1
"Al the places in Middle Tennessee where
The Cholera did prevail, have water impregna.
ed with lime.'-I Letter from DR.. Troost.
1t prevailed ere-Cincinnat--and over the
over siurian formations generally, but was
'rrested IN lis progress at the sandstone region,
lcar the Scioto river; it was not nearly as fatal
It this city as it was at Lexington, Ky., attribu.
able TO the fact, that at the latter place, there is
10 supply of rirer water, and the properties of
heir nell water, probable differ from that of
jlncinna'i; the former city being based on
over portion Of the lower silurian, raised at
hat place TO the surface, Chrsty's Geol. and
perhaps affecting the quality of the water iniu-
'ously. 1t was observed here during the pre-.
'alence Of the Cholera in 1882, that the cases
generally occurred in that part of the city sup
'Iled with calcareous water from weIs-the ri.
er water much resembles rain water in its eIe-
nenIs, except when at very low stage, it is
hen quite cacareous.
AT Emmetsburg, Md.-a secondary sandstone
egon--there was no Cholera. AT West Point
granite formation, there was no cholera; it
assed around that grarite region but attacked
'iIh great malignity the calcareous region which
ommences few miles above (north,) in the
iclni'y ofNewburgh.