The Indianapolis daily herald., 1865-11-02
THE CHoLEuA-. aruEpy.

The last news reports two hundred dying
day 10 Paris from cholera. The IaPdOn CORES
pendent OF the Cincinnati Gazette gives the fol
loving account OF the spread Of lhe dread dis
ease 10 England. aud the probability tia. medi-
cal science may master IT.
at Is vet a race between the cholera aud the
frost. and thus far the cholera keeps ahead. In
Paris there were lately one hundred cases in one
day. In Southampton the cases are but few as
yet. but the plague has made virulert attack
upon the village Of Theydon. skirtng coping
Forest. aud close 70 London suppose there
never was e stranger case OF fatality than that
which descended upon family in this village
A Mr.. Groombridge. farmer, had been 10
lWeymouth, aud while there he mad A severe at
tack Of Illness. He, however, 90, better and
| returned TO bis home on SUNDAY, September "a
On Tuesday. the 18th. Mr. Groonbridge was ct
tackled, but recovered, although left in a very
delicate state. On Saturday the 30sh, a little
daughter Of Mr.. '1roombridge was attacked and
died in about eight hours. The same night q
boy who used 10 sleep 10 a room in one of the
outouiidings wac taken i'll, but has recovered.
These patients had been attended by DR.. Nc.
Nab, sen, DR.. McNab. jr.. and DIR. Clegg. On
Monday DR.. McNab, sen. was seized, and died
GA Tuesday morning, about ten hours after be
was first attacked On Tuesday another
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but has recovered. The next the housemaid was
attacked. but has also got over IT, The disease
had not left the house for on Friday last Mr.
Groombridge was again attacked by il, and died
| after an illness OF ten hours man named Ri
ley, farm laborer, at work on the premises, was
attacked by il on Friday night, and died early on
Saturday morning. The mother of Mrs. Groom
bridge, a lady eghty-seven years Of age. also
caught the disease on the same day, but Is al
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the attack oil cholera, aud was doing very well
until che heard that her husband was dead, and
then she said she had nothing more 10 live for
She refused 10 take food or ANYTHING that wa.
proper for her in her state OF health and the CO n
sequence was that she soon sank and died TIL,
next victim is Mrs. Saville a poor woman who
went to lay Riley cut. She was attacked a day
or two after. and died OH Tuesday the 10th The
cases amount to twelve IN number, and have re
suited In i've deaths. A Government Commits
sion has been appointed to make inquiry into the
nature of the disease. There is great alarm a
Theydon, and II Is feared that the disease may
rush with panic stricken villagers into London
Meanwhile, IL really seems that medical sci
ence Is about TO master the disease. | have,
, believe, before written to you of the great dis.
covery Of the influence Of extremes of cold anC
heat in influencing the great sympathetic nerv,
of the spine DR.. Chapman, the dIscoverer o.
tuls, suCceeueo III gaming verdict rom the
medical fraternity that he really is able, by th,
application Of bags of ice to the spine, TO over
come diabetes, initial paralysis and some think
: even epilepsy. So complete has he mastered
the sickness of pregnancy that bis discovery ha.
been brought into great repute. Sea-sickness i,
entirely prevented by bis ice bags. The Doctor
studied carefully the nature of cholera, snC
concluded that diarrhes, English, Asiatic anC
other choleras, are all various degrees and nten
sites ofone disease. He bad found that he could
control diarrhea, and he believed he could con
Iquer cholera. Armed with ice bags, he hurried
to Southampton when he heard that cholera haC
appeared there. The powerless and desparing
physicians there gladly allowed him to try biz
ice cure, and there can be no doubt whatevel
that his success, though yet limited, has beer
such "a 10 amaze the medical faculties of th,
} country, and draw from the physicians of South
ampton unanimous vote to try ice hereafter il
every case. In every case circulation was within
i've minutes restored to the extremities of the
patient, which before had been as marble Eact
patient declared himself or herself much relev ed
by the ice. Out of six cases. DIR. Chapman has
brought four into fair way OF getting better
two died--both women. one of whom was very
weak, and aged seventy three; the other ha
bitual drunkard, living in avery filthy den. TIL,
other cases were equally severe, some OF then
more so. and at this date the patients seem con
yalescent"