Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-04-13

IhO', -" Is soIi, lnelf ulgeSnOn, lhough
good (tor on that depends u good color,)
produces flesh that is soft and puffy /;
have no witness of sinew and mus
Gle, no power of enduring toll.
Persons whe have empha,icallv a good
constitution, may be able 10 repel the
great ~prcdisposing cause of cholera,
It be operating on them, as well
as all others who surround them. Nay.
they may resist all the causes we have
enumerated above, except insufficient
nourishment; for good and wholesome
food is as absolutely essential to the dai.
ly preservation Of health, as 10 the form.
alton and preservation Of good consii.
tuition. What then is that power that
enables some persons so positively to re-
sist CHOLERA We answer, it is that "or-
ganic strength or conlractility" Of the
small fbres of which every part of The
body is made. These fbres themselves
are mere blood-yessels, that is 10 say, ar
teries and veins and nerves. 1t is this
kind OF strength so absolutely dependen,
on good food and temperance, that en-.
ables the blood-vesse,s to keep well clio.
sed. and 10 retain the more liquid or al.
luminous part of the blood; this compri.
ses by lar its largest portion, and is not
only absolutely essential to life, as il is
the substance ofwhich the greater part of
the body is composed, but being the
most fluid Of the three constituent parts
Of the blood, it distends the heart and
blood-VeSsels, and provokes them to con-
tract and send il over the body.
Now if, from want Of a proper degree
Of cOnIractility, derived from long con-
linued and insufficient nourishment, bad
air, intemperance, ETC.. etc., the small
blood-vessels Of the i~nteslines, through.
out their whole extent (some thirty feel,)
should, from ONE great and UdirerSai
operating cause. cease in u few hours 10
exercise their feeble powers of conlrac-
lion, and open their mouths like dead
worms, would not all ,he more fluid part
of the blood escape into the intcslincs,
and pass or by rapid discharges from the
bowels? Ii would, and does do so; and
that is the great characteristic symptom
of cholera, viz, the ricc-water stools, or,
in other words. the serum or albuminous
part Of the blood. We have known it
all pass off in a single hour, and of course
death ensued, as the heart had nothing
to act upon these rapid cases aiways
occur in persons whose contractility Of
tissue is very feeble they are those who
are broken down by the causes above
mentioned.
But what is the cause that more inn
mediately acts in producing this laxity
Of tho Aood-vesseis-t to so many persons
| nj onc6-wha is the CAUSE OF CHOLERA
The answer is--wE % 10 KNOW: bu
we may be permitted 10 speculate.
want Of electricity in the atmosphere i
not only a probable, but a highly ration
al suggestion. Electricity and heat arr
so closely connected. that they may bc
supposed inseparable. The debilirate,
persons most liable 10 cholera, are
in all probability, less positively e
lectrifed i; they certainly part with lheiI
heat with far o readiness than the 70
bust, and will bear less exhaustion
When the body is in high health, the
circulation & coniractilily are good and
both are absolutely under the control oil
electricity when artiicially excited, a
membrane or a muscle will instantly con-
tract. and the small arteries which lei
out the sources of the blood into the in-
t%estines. and out Of the skin by sweating,
are under this influence in n very great
degree. Fear acting directly " as Il de-
pressing agent upon the nerves, and ev-
'- ....- Ilzo1 ,,--rl h,i,r nnnA,,nn-
MED. and its powers of contracting being
at all times controlled by its peculi-
mr. nerve. it loses that power which it pos
sosscs when charged with Its usual guam
tity of electricity. So well known are
these facts. that some philosophers as.
sert, that "electricity is life :" nor is it
likely We shall ever get much nearer to
the truth.
1t seems to have attracted the attention
Of observers throughout the world. that
the appearance Of cholera has invariably
been accompanied with n heavy state OF
the atmosphere. like the present month
Of December, hindering evaporation, and
producing great moisture near the sur
face Of the earth this, as q necessary
consequence, compels us 10 breathe
through n less rnriied medium whatever
impurities are thrown Off from the disor,
ganization Of the refuse matters accumu.
lating in cities, and the decaying vegeta,
hles and animal life in the country
This being most Abundant in the filthy
parts, or along the border Of rivers, nnc
the population in such places boing pre-
disposed from poor living and filth, thu
disease is more common and fatal in sucl
places.
Suppose, then, we admit this theory o
insufficient electricity. and a feeble or
ganizalion predisposing to cholera, i
there no other cause worth our observa
lion that Immediately nrecedes its ap
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