Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1850-07-06

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The Cholera, an OLD BR1deEntet
In the Westminster and Foreign qdafterly
is very interesting article on Epidemirs.--
Some facts are presented which do not &C.
cord with the common belief Of the people oH
Cholera: Ex
Epidemics are SO called from their extent,
their meaning upon the peoples Or prevailing
disease, sometimes perrading small tract and
sometimes Of wide extent
The Asiatic Cholera is named from Is
source in the Eastern continent beginning at
the east and advancing westward into Europe,
and thence across the Atlantic into America
Il has not always passed out of Asia, and often
occurs in rare cases, or only in limited disEicts
there.
In Is4s, the cholera reached the eastern
limit Of Europe, and appeared IN Paris ID
March, 1s49, and IN London IN the same
month. Its rayages in the same year IN ths
United States need not be mentioned
In 1912, the deaths BY cholera were great
on both sides of the Atlantic. Il appeared Ia
Paris March 26th, 1882, and was most fatal
there in April, while in England its gzeatest
mortality was in August and September.
In 1917, the cholera ravaged the districtof
JepoTe, in India. IN August Of that Yeaf and
extended to Calcutta and devastated the towns
over a thousand miles square
In 1881, the same disease destroyed nulti-
tudes at Gonjam, 500 miles northeast Of MadA
ras; the next year it fell upon Madras, and ID
1884 at Hurdwa, IN India. L vas then Gale
ed bowel death, extremely fatal wbils q as-
we're catarrh fever swept over much sf Kur-
ope, and was very fatal
In 1893, 1870, 1865, $50, plague fatal
like cholera Tayaged many portions Of Europe,
and in London IN 1865 showed symptoms ike
the late cholera
The sweating sickness Of 1851, 1928 and
1917, in England and on Tie continent was
very destructive ard rapid as the cholera, n
not identical with It
DR. Chambers refers TO CELSIUS Of Rome, for
proof that the cholera prevailed IN the first
century of our era.
In 500 before Christ as stated By Dk
Hecher, was disease, whose characters are
the full description of the last stages Of the
malignant cholera, as It appeared at st Pes
tersburgh il Is48,
These facts show that the cholera is not
disease peculiar to late years It's prevalence
has been greater perhaps in the hot months
but not universally. In Is4e II was far more
fatal in Paris in May, and especially il june,
4A0 a. A4OA0OA4 ~
Siam, for It Travelled eastward also Ii 1649,
the mortality was awful in June.
The immediate cause appears unknown
/ It has been attributed to moist atmosphere and
fogs impregnated with some poisonous gases
TO cholera fungi in the intestines to ozone
to teluric actions IN the earth which poison
the atmosphere-te changes il currents Of
lelectricity on the earthss surface But.5s
crcnn1sfaxlcps IN the condition ,nf f}r r.a,7lIr
living, exposure, fear and terror, food, eleauli-
ness, along streams which form the great nat
ural thoroughfares all Of which promote and
aggraYate the disease are well known. These
are the objects to be attended 70 il the sani-
tary efforts of people
It is to be hoped from the indications Of q
few weeks past that this scourge is not 10 be
sent forth over our couetrys through the great
mercy of Him who rules over men and na-
tions. G p.