Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1849-08-02
Cholera FalIacies and FoIIies.

II III. lufDCT, vi NCH ofhs luNOIS US WIFI
a copy Of DR.. Dickinson's Revelations Of the chro-
nothermal theUry-which 6cnounces bleeding, opium,
calomel, &C., and prescribes daily bathing as a pre-
ventIve, and quinIne, prussic acid, ipecacuan, chloro-
form, lamentations, &c, as among the remedies. The
ex-Health Commissioner, a faithful disciple of the
new school, holds ''the cramp to be the reverse of
dangerous-an effort of the healing power Of nature
for the restoration Of the paralyzed nerves. Then we
have from Appleton d Co. the theory and practice of
Charles Richardson, d.. D. of Baltimore, who claims
to nave much experience as one of the city physi-
clans in the cholera season of lS32-and who abjures
bleeding, camphor, and opium, and holds calomel TO
be a sovereign remedy. Finally, Wiley issues a
treatise by DR.. Abraham i. Cox, a practitioner of the
old school in N. Y. who adopts DR.. brakes theory
that Jiarrhea, so far from being a premonitory symp-
tom, is the disease itself. Diarrhea is thus held to
be IFS ruling feature, upon the treatment of which de-
pend all succeeding symptoms and consequences.
Common cholera, he holds, commences in the stomach,
with pain and nausea, violent vomiting and then CO.
pious discharges. In the Epidemic, or Asiatic Chol-
era. on the contrary, neither nausea nor pain is first
manifest. The patient is first attacked with loose
ness, without pain; then comes thinner objections. large
fluid passages. and finally more fluid, of a marked
character, In large quantities, with great violence,
yet, often without pain or nausea. The disease is
'hereforefore simply a sudden. violent discharge of
the (watery) fluids of blood. The first precaution in
cholera seasons then is to economize the vital energy,
and the first remedies for an attack are camphor,
brandy, opium, ammonia, rest in a horizontal posture,
&c, &C."
The THREE BoYs-A HARD CAsE.-The three boys
who died at the Cholera Hospital yesterday were found
In the rear of a little miserable Dutch tavern, north
of Hayward's Burr Milestone Factory. They had
been left by the steamer Troy on the deck sometime
during the night. The children were known TO have
the cholera, and were refused admittance into any of
the houses about there. In this condition they lay
out in the open air all night, the parents not daring
TO leave them, patiently waiting the morning when
n1hits folks should be about. They had money-all
they wanted was a place TO lay their heads. II was
late the next morning before they were found by DR..
Hewitt, who Immediately wrapped them in blankets
and asked permission to take them into said tavern
until he could find a place for them. The keeper re-
fused even TO have them carried through his house,
and they were taken in his arms and carried around
a back way 10 the street. Attempts were made TO
get a dray to carry them to the Hospital, but no dray-
man would even lend his dray for such a purpose.
The doctor appealed to several of their own country
men, (for they were foreigners and reproached them
with ~inhumanity to let such fine boys die for the want
of u little timely assistance.
Ii was near an hour before the children were got
10 the hospital-one was fully in the collapsed state,
the other two not so bad. The doctor administered
to them, the hospital physician being absent. He
then left them TO attend to other patients, but sent his
medical student with prescriptions to attend them in
his sabsence. by a strange sense of professional etI-
quette, the hospital keeper refused to have DR.. Hewitts
prescriptions followed up, unless concurred in by the
regular hospital physician, or until Il could be ascer-
tanned that DR.. Hewitt would make no charge to the city
for his service. DIR. Hewitt being absent, his clerk
could not answer for him in this particular, and so the
"regular" physician commenced his treatment without
knowing what medicine had been given. While these
matters of convenience and etiquette were being set
tied, much precious time was lost, and the ''three
boys during the day, died.
Now this be our say. The hotel-keeper who re-
fused admittence to the boys because they were sick
and let them lay on bis premises without securing
them shelter elsewhere is a brute; aud the drayman
who refused his dray is a vretch; and the hospital
keeper, although under instructions and intending to
do right, evidently is wanting humanity or common
Isense.-Ceue. Plaindealer llh.
VERY FooL1sH.-Sever foolish attempts have late
ly been made to prevent the spread of Cholera, by
cutting away the canal, so as to prevent communica-
ton between the different points below and above La
fayeite.
The towards concerned in these outrageous viola
tons of ~propriety and law, do not take into conslde-
ration, that the Providence of God is superior to the
efforts of man; and that where he designs a work
even of death, his invisible agent stands ready to ex-
ecute its Office. To draw off the main body of water
from the canal at this season of the year, when the
fifth which has settled in its bottom would be exposed
to the poisonous influence of a vertical sun, would be
to court the visitation OF disease in a much more ma
lirnant form than ii has yet appeared. Pools Of stag
nant wafer, in their most concealed and out of the
way locations, are infectious. How much more so
the hulf-drained canal. with It's Shiny bottom exposed,
extending for miles through the very heart of the
lStatei
This consideration alone. we should think, would
deter men from any attempt at a repetition of the
ofence.-LgfayeHe Journal, July %.
SULPHUR AND THE CHoLERA.-AnOther testimony
showing the ineficacy of sulphur for the prevention
or cure of cholera, is contained in the following let
ter from a correspondent
"The city of Mier, in Mexico, is situated on the
river Alamo, the waters of which are used by the in
~habitants for drinking. cooking, &C., there being no
well in the place. The bed of the stream bears every
appearance of having in many places been unheaved
by a volcanic eruption, and in very many parts OF
this bed, when the water is low, springs are found,
from which issue large quantities o~fsulphur water.
There is a brook of this water running through the
town 10 the river. Yet there were many cases of the
cholera in Mier this spring and many deaths. The
disease was not as fatal as at Camargo, because DIR.
Perry, a member Of Col. Webb's California company.
prepared a medicine which proved very successful. but
nearly all those attended by other persons died.
Frederick S. Combs of this city, belonging to Col. WIS
company, died after drinking the water Of the Alamo
for a week; and in all the cases OF which | heard, the
symptoms were as violent, and death as speedy. as ia
other places where no sulphur is Mingled with the
water. | tasted the water Of these springs. and there
can be no doubt of its being genuine sulphur water"
d.
SHOCKING NEeLEcr-PANIc.-The following state
ment is gathered from the ST. Mary's Sentinel of the
18th instant.
On Thursday a respectable looking stranger was
in the town ~enquiring for employment as a journey
man tailor. He did not find work, and started down
the canal on the tow path. The next morning six
miles below town, he was found on the tow path, suf-
fering under a supposed attack of cholera. The nan
that discovered him. and the whole neighborhood be-
came so panic stricken, that the sufferer was left on a
few bushes by the side of the canal TO die, without
attendance, medicine, food or even a cup of water
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