The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-08-26
THE PERRYSBURG JOURNAL.

since Its first appearance the attention o.
the learned men has been directed to the phe
nomena accompanying it. They have robbed
1T OF half its terrors by demonstrating the
fact that 1t may be cured if remedies are ap
Piled IN Its early stages. One example will
suffice to prove the truth of this statement
In 1852 the town of Bilston, England, was
ravaged by the cholera. One-third of the
number attacked died. Dr. MCann, a dis.
tinguished physician, was sent down by gov
eminent. He opened dispensary, and
requested every person whose bowels were
IN the slightest degree disordered TO come to
him. They did so, and he gave to each an
aStringent aromatic opiate medicine Sim
pie indeed, was it not 1t stopped the dis
ease, as these figures will show. In the five
days preceding the opening Of the dispensa-
ry, 227 persons died in five days following
lG4 died in the next five, So and on the
eighteenth day not a fatal case was reported
We cannot impress this point too strong
ly upon our readers. Check any appearance
of diarrhGa, and if accompanied with
cramps, let the body be rubbed with spirits
Where the looseness becomes serious, lose no
time in obtaining the advice of physician
Every person should be possessed of suffi-
clent amount of common sense to be able TO
eat and drink at this season. Violent
changes of diet are always hurtful, and many
persons in '32 and 40 were made confirmed
drunkards by taking 9 little brandy as a
preventive. Now we do not implicitly be-
leve in brandy as preventive, as curative
we scout it altogether as it increases the in fla
nation; and whatever advantage might
flow from its astringent qualities, is over
balanced by this fact
We do not intend to go into an agument
upon the veXed question as to whether or not
cholera is an infectious or contagious dis
ease. 1t seems 10 US, however, that it has
been proved that it is neither contagious or
infectious. Quarantines cannot keep it out
of country, as has been shown in Russia
and Egypt. Thousands of people went from
New York to Newport in l649 and there
never has been case of cholera at the
latter place. Ten thousand persons went
from Marseilles to Lyons when the cholera
was raging at the former place, and Lyons
still enjoyed immunity from the scourge. -
The burden of proof goes to show that there
is no necessity for cholera hospitals, or for
the removal Of a patient from home. It
would be barbarlty so to do, with the light
we have now on the subject
The causes of cholera and the means
whereby it may be checked or entirely pre-
vented, are subjects which open wide field
for discussion. For the first, the best theory
is that cholera is caused by an intensely
poisonous s5as emitted under certain condi-
tions of heat and moisture, from decaying
mineral and vegetable matter. This gas
does not difsuse readily, but is borne in cur
rents until it meets with conditions favora-
bic to its development: that is, il travels
until it arrives at some locality which is
cursed with dirty, careless population,
who have been engaged in actively preparing
themselves to meet such guest. The poison
is then received into the lungs, acts at once
on the blood, and then we have cholera
symptoms. How to prevent it? We have
great faith in water, and were the citizens of
New York all Mohometans for month or
so, and followed strictly the regulations of
the Prophet so far as abuton goes we
should have but little need of cholera hos
pitals,-I n. Y. Herald
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