Daily American telegraph., 1852-06-21
Tho Cholera.

Tho Cholera.
There are affections symptomatic of this dis
ease in many parts of our country, and in others
the disease itself is manifested in u malignant
form; and although we may hope, in the provi-
dence of God to be spared the dreadful vista
ton, it is yet wise in to be attentive to every
duty that can prevent its approach or mitigate
its rigors. The following facts, therefore, will
probably be well received and duly considered by
all of our.readers They are obtained from
pamphlet issued some years ago, when the char
acteristics of the cholera of 1882 were being ex-
amned:
Four-ffths of those who are swept away by
that direful malady, the CHOLERA, are such ms
have been addicted to the use of intoxicating
drink Dr. Bronson, Of Albany, who spent some
time in Canada, and whose professional character
and standing give great weight to his opinion
says: 'Intemperance of any species, but par,
| ticularly intemperance in the use Of distilled
liquors, has been more productive cause OF
cholera than any other, and, indeed, than all
others
Essays DR.. Rhinelander, who, with DR.. De
Kay, was deputed from New York to visit Cana
da: I'VE may be asked, who are the victims Of
this disease? / answer, the Incorporate it in
variably cuts off, In Montreal, after 12, 900
had been attacked, Montreal paper states that
not drunkard who has been attacked has re-
covered of the disease, and almost all the victims
have been at least moderate drinkers. In Paris,
| the 30 900 victims were, with few exceptions,
those who freely used intoxicating liquors. Nine
tenths of those who died of the cholera in Poland
were of the same class.
"In Petersburg and Moscow, the average num-
ber of deaths in the bills of mortality, during the
prevalence of the cholera, when the people ceased
| to drink brandy, was greater than when
they used it during the usual months of health
showing that brandy, and attendant dissipation
killed as many people in the same time as ever
the cholera tself-that pestience which has spread
sackcloth over the nations. OF more than one
thousand deaths in Montreal, it is stated that
only two were members of temperance societies
and that, as far as is known, no members of tenn
perance societiesin Ireland, Scotland, or England,
have as yet fallen victims to that dreadful dis
| ease.
"From Montreal, DR.. Bronson writes: Cholera
has stood up here, as it has done everywhere,
the advocate Of temperance. 1t has pleaded
most eloquently, and with tremendous effect.
The disease has searched out the haunt of the
drunkard and has seldom Left it without bearing
away its victim. Even moderate drinkers have
been but little better off Ardent spirits, in any
shape, and in all quantities. have been highly
| uetrlmenlH. IoOInt ltmptIdlc Hltu TtSOTltu W
them during the prevalence of the malady as
preventive, or to remove the feeling of uneasi-
ness about the stomach, or for the purpose Of
drowning their apprehensions, but they did it at
| their peril
Says the London Morning Herald, after sta
| ting that the cholera fastens its deadly grasp
upon this class of men The same preference
for the Incorporate and uncleanly has character
lied the cholera eUeryVhere. Intemperance is a
qualification which it never overlooks. Often
has it passed harmless over wide population
Of temperate country people, and poured down
as an overfowing scourge upon the drunkards of
some distant town Says another English pub
lication All experience, both in Great Britain
and elsewhere, has proved that those who have
been addicted to drinking sprituous liquors, and
indulging in irregular habits have been the great
est sufferers from cholera. In some towns the
drunkards are all dead. Rammohun Fingee the
famous Indian DOCTOR says, with regard to India,
that people who do not take opium, or spirits, do
not take this disorder even when they are with
those who have it, Monsieur Huber, who saw
| 3, 1G0 persons perish in twenty-five days in one
| town in Russia, says: 1t is n most remarkable
circumstance that persons given to drinking have
been swept away like flies In Tifs, containing
&c, 900 inhabitants, every drunkard has fallen
all arc dead, not one remains.
"And DR.. Sewall, Of Washington city, in
letter from new OrK, SIaleu Jnat, OF IUt cases OF
cholera in the Park hospital, there we're only six
temperate persons, and that those had recovered;
while 100 of the others, when he wrote, had died;
and that the facts were similar in all the other
hospitals.
"In Albany, New York, n careful examination
was made by respectable gentlemen into the
cases Of those who died of the cholera in that
city, in 1882, over sixteen years Of age The
result was examined in detail by nine physicians,
members of the medical staff attached to the
Board of Health in that city, (all who belong to
it, except two, who were at that time absent
and published at their request under the sigma
ture Of the Chancellor of the State and the five
distinguished gentlemen who compose the ex-
ecutive committee of the New York State Tenn
perance Society, and is as follows: Number OF
deaths. 366-yiz. intemperate 40 free drink
ers, 55; moderate drinkers, mostly habitual,
l3l strictly temperate, who drank no aroen'
spirit. 8 members Of temperance societies, :.
OF more than 5000 members OF temperance so
cieties in the city Of Albany, only z, not | IN
2, 500, fell by this disease, while II cut of more
than in so of the inhabitants of that city !"
EsSs~ The New York EDening Post charges the
Southern Press with disseminating abolition SEN
timents in the South, by making copious extracts
from the Boston Commonwealth in denunciation
Of slavery.
NY Hon Pierre SoulG will deliver a lecture
at the Musical Fund Hail. Philadelphia, July 9th,
at half-past 10 o'clock, q, M,