The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-05-19

We should not publish such letter the subjoned
nor indeed any letter containing opinion advice
subject grave that of the treatment of fearful and
generally fatal pestlence, without declaring the author-
ty upon which it is given 10 absolve US from any
responsibility for il. the being one in which we are
not qualified TO pronounce any opinion. The writer OF
this letter. to which he has chosen give the form of an
address to the highest authority, Tennesscean.
physician OF forty years standing and, the reader will
perceive from his signature formerly surgeon in
the army--in the same regiment believe, OF which
General Taylor was then an oficer.--Naf. Int
To Mojor Gen. Taylor. President Of tie United States
Sir: have thu pleasure of communicating to you,
and, through YOU TO the different heads of departments,
to the army and navy of the United States and also
all foreign diplomatic agents At q near the seat Of our
government, my theory of CHOLERA and successful
practice founded upon that theory am the more dis
posed to give yon abstract OF my theory and practice,
at this me of that disease, it is taking off hundreds
not only in other countries but in many parts of our
own country shall limit my observations to single
letter, yet faer myself shall be understood
That the disease is conveyed in the atmosphere there
seems 10 be to doubt or that it is waited in
currents. There is as little reason to dispute that at
in their system matter air OF similar nature with that
floating in the atmosphere. We find the negro sub
ject to il than the white man; the white than
the white woman The negro has more nitrogen and less
oxygen about his person than the white 1t is this
superabundance OF nitrogen which take to be nearly al
lied to the OF cholera By its effects on the
skin it produces relaxation of the inestines and
grade motion of the aceas and ymphatcs and partcu
Iarly the thoracic duct which is always found empty in
posmortem examinations When the relaxation of the in
testnes takes place. the feca matter is FIRST discharged and
then the chye and lymph, which thrown the
ntesnes in the form and appearance OF rice WATER and
so out. We perceive the why there is no
bile in the discharges, there being blood out OF
which TO secete bile; as. ALSO why there is urine
in the urinary bladder that being always found drawn up
into knot There is blood sent TO the kidneys
out Of which TO make urine; the disease is. indeed,
flooding away of the white blood, (f may call IT'D If
am correct we see mistake that has heretofore been
made in looking to the liver the cause OF the disease
or, being in fault, to give caleme TO goad
the liver into action to secete bile. when it has nothing
sent to il out Of which to make it, The same may be
said OF the Kidneys they cannot be charged with being
at fault nnot supplying the urinary bladder with urine,
new blood is sent to them ou OF which TO make
urine. When all the facial matter is discharged then
comes the rice-water and in few moments collapse
takes place. Then told that the patient is beyond
the reach OF the curative plan.
say, not So; we now give astrnsentsIsay one grain
of opium and four grains of kino every half hour To
children we give strong tincture Of cinnamon-say a
easpoonful every half hour This fracture should
throw the coolest water have over the whole body.
hastily wipe dry and put into blankets to be allowed 10
sweat: give him or her little well boiled corn-meal
Cruel The cold water coming in contact with the nitro
gen on the body, it forms neural the cramps in.
stanty dsspaed and the regular circulation retuns the
patient is cured The cold clammy feel OF the skin. call
densaton of the hydrogen OF the atmosphere the black
and blue appearance is the air pressing the surface OF
the skin on the muscles whlch are deprived Of the mph
or watery parts OF the blood.
have already accounted for there being bile in the
discharges. | now to the great thirst That is
owing 10 exhausted state Of the system; the same is
in persons bleeding TO death-the call for water
and hunters tell that deer and other animals when
| wounded, run for water. Ii we asked how we
count for the cramps, answer it is by the sudden
subduction of life through the blood The is seen
in the bullock slaughtered by the butcher is not the
small wound that is made, but the drawing of the blood
suddenly. give in such cases cold drinks, or allow my
patients TO eat ice.
In 1893 published my theory and practice first in
paper and then in book and subsequently had op.
portunes of putting my theory into practice, and proved
ii successful beyond all doubt.
With the highest respect, am, sir, yours,
A G. GOODLET,
Late Surgeon It'll Regiment U. S. Infantry.
| WASHINGTON, May 3, ls49