The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1850-07-25

house. whilst ne screamed all the while |
-.Oh. Missus Price, be We gone madr'
From that day Mrs. Price has been
wholly cured d her scolding habits
David has only 10 look up in her face
and say, ..'ll sSt box Of 'intment."
and there's an end to the Mattel
David honorably paid the doctor his Is.
Sd, and also treated him I, make him
forget the pummeiling. The whole oi
these circumstances are strictly true.
Why EPrDEMIcs RAGE AT NIGHT
II was in one night that 1000 perlshe,
IF the plague in London, III 1865. II
was at night that the army OF SIENNA
cherib was destroyed Roth in Eng
land and on the continent large pro
portion of the cholera cases. in its Sc
veral forms. have been observed to hav
occurred between one and two O'clOcl
in the morning The "tlanger of ex
posure TO night air." has been theme
Of physicians from time immemorial
but ii is remarkable that they have never
yet called in the aid of chemistry tc
account for the fact.
Ii is at night that the statum of air
nearest the ground must always be the
most charged with the PARTICLES Of AMI
nalized matter given out from the skin.
and deleterious gases, such as carbonic
acid gas, the product of respiration.
and suIphuretted hydrogen. the product
Of the sewers. In the day, gases and
vaporous substances of all kinds rise
in the air by the rarefaction Of heat j:
at night. when this rarefaction leaves
them, they fall by an increase of gra-
witty, if imperfectly mixed with the at.
mosphere, while the gases evolved
,luring the night, instead Of ascending.
remain at nearly the same level. II is
known that carboIic acid gas at low
Temperature partakes SO nearly OF the
nature Of fluid. that it may be poure.l
out of one vessel into another: it rises
at the temperature at which il is ex.
halei from the lungs; but its tendency
is towards the floor. or the bed OF the
sleeper, in cold and unventilated rooms
At Hamburg the alarm of cholera al
night in some parts Of the city was 81
great. that OH some occasions many re-
fused to go to bed, lest they should bt
attacked unawares in their sleep. Sit
ting up, they probably kept their stove.
or open 6res burning for the sake o
warmth, aud that warmth giving the
expansion to any deleterious gases pre-
sent. which would best promote thei
dilution in the atmosphere, the mean
Of safety were thus unconsciously as
sured. At Sierra Leone. the native
have a practice in the sickiv seas0I
Of keeping fires constantly burning il
their huts at night, assigning that tn
fires kept away the evil spirits. 10 which
in thsir ignorance. they attribute feve
and ague. Latierly, Europeans hav
begun to adopt the same practice: an
those who have tried it assert that the
have now entire immunity from tn
tropical fevers to which they were tol
merly subject.
In the epidemics Of the middle age
: fires used TO be lighted in the streets "a
the putriiicaiion Of the air and IN tn
plague Of london, in 1865. fires in tn
streets were al one time kept burnin
necessarily. till extinguished by VIZ
! ,ent storm or rain. Laiferly. trains I
gunpowder have been fired. and car
, non discharged for the same object
but it is obvious that these measure
,, although sound in principle, must ~
cessariiy, opt Of doors, be on too small
; scale. as measured against an ocea
! Of atmospheric Air, 10 produce any SCI
.. sible effect. Within doors, hOwexc
the case is diffeseat. II is quite poss
be to heat room sufficiently g Pr
duce . rarefaction and consequent dit
! ton of any malignant case: It me
/ contain: and il il q course the air |
!. the room, and that alons 1t night whsc
|. c,mss into immodiats contact with u
Lungs Of The person sleeping. So