The North-Carolina standard., 1849-06-27
From the PhiladeIphia Daily Sun.

How TO ESCAPE THE CHOLERA. We have said
before that cleanliness, Christian reliance Provi-
preventives to cholera. In other words, both mind
and body should be kept in healthy activity. We
give in connection with this subject the following
sanitary regulations of London based upon of the
most minute Investigations that was made into
the circumstances attendant epidemic disease.
Tne London Lancet says; "these simple measures
are worth all the nostrums or specifics which have
I ever been vaunted for the cure of cholera" ,
'Let every impurity, animal or vegetable, be quick
ly removed to distance from the habitations, such
slaughter bones, pig sites, cesspools necessaries,
and all other domestic nnisances. -.-.-.''
| We do not believe that animal putrefactions are
ever connected with epidemic diseases, but these can
be objection to their removal from habitations.
Let all uncovered drains be carefully and frequent
| ly cleansed. 80
! Let the grounds in and around the habitatons be
drained, as efectuay to carry off moisture of eve
ry kind.
Let all partitions be removed from within and with
out habitaons which unnecessarily impede ventila-
! ton. ..
| Let every room be thrown open for the admission
of air, and this should be done about noon, when the
atmosphere is most likely to be dry.
Let dry scrubbing be used in domestic cleansing,
! in place of water cleansing. ..,.-.
Let excessive fatigue and exposure to damp and
cold, especially during the night, be avoided.
Let the of cold drinks and acid liquors, espec-
tally under fatigue, be avoided or when the body is
heated.
cooking for drink, be avoided
! Let the wearing of wet and insufficient clothing
| be avoided. s-.' . e.
Let flannel or woollen belt be worn around the
belly. - ii 81
n. B.-This has been found very serviceable in
checking the tendency to bowel complaint, COM
mon during the, prevalence of the Cholera. The dis
ease has, this country, been always found to COM
mence with looseness in the bowels, and in this
stage is very ractable it should however, be MOTTO
ed that the looseness is frequently unattended by
pain or uneasiness; and fatal delay has often oc-
CURED from the notion that cholera must be attended
with cramps: In the early stage here referred to,
there is often gripping cramp, and it is at this
period that the disease be most easily arrested
Let personal cleanliness be carefully observed.
! Let every cause tending to depress the moral and
physical energies by carefully avoided.
Let crowding of persons within houses and apart
ments be avoided. ' . .' .-. -
Let sleeping in low or damp rooms be avoided.
Let fires be kept up during the night in sleeping
or adjoining apartments, the night being the period
of most danger from attack, especially under expos
ure to cold or damp. '. -"lt.-l<
Let all bedding and clothing be daily exposed dur
ing winter and spring, to the fire, and in summer to
the heat of the sum- -f," - 5ia
/ DR.. Drake, a physician of Cincinnati, whose ac-
quaintance with this disease is said be
sve that of any practitioner in the West has pub
! lished some suggestions on the subject, worthy of
notice: .- -..,.- 81
l.. That leaving the city do no possible good.
The disease is not contagious The cause oft has
already Spredd through the city ana 0een received Into
the bodies of the inhabitants. Those who escape
the country more likely to be i'll than if they
main at home. s- 'e'I 81. -=l ~ @.i.
2. Epidemic cholera has no premonitory symp-
! toms. The darrahea, which is supposed to be its
forerunner, is the disease ITSELF in its rst stage
positively when advanced to vomiting, cold
ness and collapse. s'z ''i 100. -ts5- s..f 1~at4
o 8. The disease may be generally stopped, if met
in that early stage if it afterwards. 1t
not even then, if the patient continues his feet His
| life denendS his lvinu bV..s-a i.- tT"-f,
! 4. All persons who have worn flannel during the
winter should keep it on, until the epidemic has pass
ed away. ,.aaf'5 .e75 ..l.." s5'a taE,-a
INSTINCT of PLANTS Observation shows that plants
have hours rest during which they make little or
no progress in growth. curious proof of this state
ment was afforded by account of a gentleman who
had an artificial illumination kept in his grapes
throughout the night and where this was done the
grapes ripened sooner by several weeks; but subse-
Fquent accounts inform that the vines thus stmu-
lated were much weakened. - 'ee-sl 'i '.t1
Some plants, like some animals, have been ordain-
ed for the night, and these accordingly are active
| during these hours. The night-blooming Cerus is
an example Of this sort Others, that increase and
flourish during the day, close their flowers and fre-
quently their leaves and remain inactive, throughout
the night. :Fiq@ sS2'3 1s~r1fffs -iit.et's4 > 2.
The botanist Guabert, in recent sitting of the
French Academy Of Science, attributed the remark
able mortality of the trees in the Parisan Bouevards
well as living creatures to need of repose night