Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-06-01
Cholera and it's Preventative.

| ~ ~ Snolera and ITS preventative.
New Orleans, aud other south western cities
the CHOLERA has prevailed 10 a. considerable exten
the; past winter. The Picpyhne gives new. AM
Singular remedy Tor The disease, alichwe COPY
| II says .sa's.s,,., 4 fsis5s,
.s'l any ofour renders should take the trouble IL
VISIT Bernard copp, rslnith establishment, on JEFF
ierson sheet near Charttrs, they will be some
what surprised at beholding a CONSENT crowd o
persons entering his shop. and fer awhile leayins
u, each provided with ON oblong sheet oil conner
ABOUT SIX inches long by three inlbrendth, drilet
at lhs isSlte,nties with round holes. The untni.
liaied and ignorant may we'll demand aii explana.
ton OF tins cupromania. Why is that thousand
OF our are procuring these COPPER sheel.l
what use Will theyput themto Are they in.
'eueu LOT yoitaic batter viii they serve more
eiectually TO evoke spiritual manifestations r.
Nothing of the Sort,
lnsthls agreeable mode of circumlocution. the
ficayune proceeds to inform us that the aforesaid
copper slleets is 10 secuie iiununt,
against the chnIera. The merit of its tiscoyelv -
due 10 Dr.. Burg, f1Paris. rs
"a series oil olserrations,' says tie Picay,,ne.
with all that careful accuracy wh;cblnufks
selenliie research IN France, continued for many
months, and extended iilto large of towns
aud villages, led hun 10 The conclusion tat deal
en-. IN copper, manUlactureIsoI copper and brnss
andlil general all persons who abtualiy handle.
elnlllc substances, escape the cholera during The
epidemic visitations of that disease Fnrtl,ern5nr
s.
me external application of that metal in any form
are OF. marvellous efficacy in dissipating tfuss ir
regular and painful muscular contractions known
as cramn, aud III chclera cases rarely failtto nrrt
spasms, and 10 relieve the patient'' ~
". BUG ms written at great length on this sub
lecl, and details q vast number OF experiments
ln ne oy him touching the prophylacIc and cura.
i've powers oil The netalS, Lui, partIcuatly conner
IN certain streets in Paris and other cities far IN
stance, " hict We're literally desolated by cholera
every coppersmith reiainet his usual health. and
not u choiera case occurred amongst them. ,rLe
copper toundres oil Paris number Thousands oil
wotkneil, scarcely any of whom ell victims 10 tbe
cholera OF 1882 or 1919. But in CONNECTION W lin
ms sui Jsct We cannot do better tliaI .opy from
The original srnoir by Victor II euier an acco,,nf
ofsthis OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES: 7e.sNsSs
DR.. Burg coaimeliced his Inquiries ON n vns,
scale, and continued them during 1--WE months. In
fatis alone he visited four hundred houses mann
iactones, foundries and otiier establishments FIR
the working oil metals. He corresponded wifi,
me oheefs 81 various associations of workmen nnd
especially of black smiths, copper stniths. Ioet
smiths and iarriers. He wrote 10 the heads Of SIM
liar establishments in all The principal depart.
ments oil francs. Notsatis6ed with having aeon
iLulaleu a mass of evidence from u y rts of mo-
g yV PERSONS he applied further Information to
England Sweden and Russia--io the director nj
me mines, from whom he obtained information re-
sPSst'ns AZ, 200 minerst 10 the cufleries of Sbef4
usst95Flne iron works of Brming ham-tlie wire
WorkS OF w ales-the mines of Sweden andz Rus.s
s sos ana having gathered The tesnonyof
lnuiyl.luals, he addressed memoir 10 tbes
neaee.1s ON Tue discovery of aneans of prevent