The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-09-19
The Cholera.
from the London Morning ChrOnicls.1

From the London Morning Chronlclel
The unknown must be blended with the terrible
to produce the subhmity of fear; Evolutionary i'm
pressions of by-gOne horrors grow weak and faint
as contemporary witnesses die away and an en-
tire nation cannot be thrown into phrenZled state
of alarm in lS48, by precisely the same causes, and
in precisely the same manner, as Iii 1882. Inc
threatened approach of the Asiatic cholera is con-
terminated with the most perfect calmness, al
most amounting to indifference, this time and
we are far from wishing TO disturb an equanlmlty,
which may do something TO avert, and great deal
to mitigate the evil. But, at the same time, II IS
best to amiiariZe ourselves with Its features, now
ever loathsome, and be prepared TO recognize and
grapple with it from the first hour it manltests
itself The East Indies are its birth and resting
place. II broke out in the Delta OF the Ganges III
1877 and arrived in England in 1881, occupying
sixteen years on the journey just sixteen years
have elapsed since it disappeared from England,
and started fresh from the Bengalese Its comet
like course therefore, would seem to be subjected TO
rules although these have hitherto baffled SCIENCE
Nothing can be more irregular than It's course. 1t
Jumps over enormous spaces, and then retraces us
steps as if 10 repair the omission 1t runs down
one bank Of river for several hundred miles, ana
never touches the other bank 1t has dealt the
same with streets.
In Paris, it has happened that all the inmates IN
the upper and lower stories Of house lay dylngy
whilst not a single person in the middle stories leh
i'll. "We have on record (says Col. Rowles, as
quoted in Mr. Chalice's pamphlep an instance OF
side of ship in Madras roads, being struck 3y
cholera while the other side was untouchedS
nor did the men the side not attacked by II al
forwards suffer- although they attended upon thelr
afflicted companions and buried them, that Is treW
them into the sea- as they successfully died" ms
gentleman adds that the cholera is considered Dy
the native Indian doctors TO arise from animal MI
asma, consisting of migratory insects, ahaagous 70
those known as blights. But this theory has found
| no favor with the medical men OF Europe WhoS
n I length
! bv an overwhelming weight of experience and au-
| thorty that the disease Is not contagious. Sci
| ence has its heroes as well as war, and ITS mar
| tyrs as we'll as religion. More than one french
| musician placed himself in direct contact with a
pafient in the worst STAGE in order to bring the con-
! tagion question to the proof.
| THE first known case in Great Britain broke out
in Sunderland in October, 1881. The disease was
| not formally announced in London till February
| 1892. The greatest number of deaths was in the
densely populated quarters near the river; but the
average mortality Of the metropolis was not much
increased, and the bills of mortality lead to the
conclusion that the influenza is as Obstructive In
this country as the cholera. The scene of the most
| fearful ravages of cholera was France, or rather
! Paris which it reached on March 2, 1882
passing over the intervening localities, and spring.
! ing from the English to the French capital at a
| bound.
Both Italian and English literature have drawn
| freely on the plague. BOccaccio and Manzon, De-
| foe, with his graphic details, anu Eotneh' WIN
| his hooking pathos, have flung an appalling charm
over it, But it remained for a French poet, Bar
thelemy to personify and poetize the cholera; and
! for French historian, VI. Louis Blanc, to COM
memorate its exploits, in the ofest style Of history
The chapter devoted to this subject in The His
tory of the Ten Years" is of the most eloquent
in work Astounding in elOquence. Terror at
first did not seem to keep pace with the danger.
The plaque had surprised the Parisians In the
midst of the festivities of MidLent; and the intre-
pid gaiety of the French character seemed at first
to brave the destructive malady. The streets and
boulevards were thronged with masks as usual; the
promenaders mustered in great numbers. People
amused themselves with looking at caricatures IN
the shop-wipdows, the subject Of which was tho