Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-05-25
From The Cincinnati Enquirer.
Epidemic Cholera.

To THE pEopLE OF CINcINNATI:-The
publication of the Board Of Health, and
the weekly report Of the Trustees Of the
Hospital, in yesterdays Daily Ga
zeue, having shown that the Cholera
has at length begun to prevail among
us as an epidemic, | propose 10
say n few words on certain p~ointa.ia
which all have a deep interest.
In the first place, then, let no one leare
The city because the epidemic has come.
In whatever unknown manner that disor-
der travels from country TO country, it is
not, like smallpox, n catching disease;
if it were, going out of the city would be
a prcservative. AS in 1889, the cases
which have 10 occurred, are in various
retired parts Of the city, and largely
among women and children, and who
had been in no degree exposed to boats,
railroad stations, or hotels, where they
could have caught any disease. In fact,
The cause has spread through the city,
and already been received into the bodies
of its inhabitants-old and young-rich
and poor; and they who escape TO the
country are more likely to be i'll, than if
they remained at home. The true and
safest course is for families and friends
to draw closer together than
and watch over and assist each other.
In the second place, it ought 10 be
known that epidemic cholera has no pre-
m0nit0ry symptoms. When the sentinel
on the walls of a fortified city fires his
gun, il is a premonilion that the enemy is
clssc at hand-when there is a circle
round the moon, it is Il promonitorv sign
Of a storm; but cholera attacks without,
any prcmonition.
We are accustomed TO apply the word
Cholera to a summer disease Of our own
climate, which generally begins with
vomiting, or that symptom and diarrhna
combined; and have therefore fallen into
the fatal error of regarding the first stage
of Epidemic Cholera, as n fore-runncr
of the disease. Every man, woman, and
child, ought 10 know that, from the mo-
mcnt when the diarrhGa sets in. the
Cholera is as positively present as when
it has advanced 10 vomiting, or GOODNESS
and collapse. When one shingle sends
up smoke, the roof is as positively on
fire as when the flames light up the civ.
The man who should stand still when he
saw the smoke, saying ii was only a pre-
monilory sign that his house might be on
fire after a while, would be regarded as
insane; yet his absurdily would be no
greater than that Of the individual who
does not regard himself as laboring I'm.
der the Cholera, from the moment the
diarrhGa begins.
In the third place, it may be declared
as a fact, thar The disease may generally
be stopped, if met in that early stage; al
all events, if itcannot then be put an end
TO it cannot afterwards. 1t will run lis
course, and the patient may or may not
recover, according 10 his constitution.
But let no n believe that this first mild
stage, can be successfully treated if the
patient continues on his feet. His life
depends on his lying by,-no medicine
can succeed if he should not. They
may check it for The moment, and delude
him into a fatal security, but can 90 no
farther.
In the fourth place, all persons who
have worn flannel during the winter,
should keep it on until the Epidemic has