Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-03
Professor peck St Mayti.

The Loraln County NeloS makes some
interesting extracts from a private letter
from Professor Peck, of Oberlin College,
the newly appointed Consul General to
Hayti, written since his arrival at Pert au
Prince. The NeroS says:
His voyage of week from Philadel-
phia till the Island was first sighted, was
very rough. At Cape Haytien, the WASP"
stopped for coal When the sun rose
next morning, we found ourselves lying be-
fore the city of Cape Haytien, which is
at the foot of mountain that must be
three thousand feet high. The town did
not look very inviting. Its houses are
rude and comfortless. Along the eminence
above town were forts and batteries held
by the rebels, and still above them, on the
extreme left, work held by the govern
ment troops. The mountain behind the
town, and others which swe 1t around to
the left like vast amphitheatre, were wild
and grand and the landscape which the
hills, the harbor, and the plain opposite
the city afforded, was picturesque and
striking. The grandeur of the panorama
was heightened by the sights and sounds !
incident to a state of seige. At frequent |
intervals, The roar of heavy guns awaked |
the echoes of the hills, and smoke from |
the artillery went up toward the clouds
which hung, the day long, upon the upper
peaks The morning after our arrival
Mr.. Folsom, the United States Consul
there, called on me, and in the course of
the day, returned the visit. l hope NAV
never again see such sights as l Witnessed
during my sojourn ashore. First of all
the city itself was spectacle of horrors.
Seventy-hve years ago, the town was rich
est one in the West Indies. As many as
three hundred sail often lay at anchor at
one time, in its harbor. But with changes
Of trade, and a decline of business, the
wealth and pride Of the place very much
fell off. At length, in 1912, an earthquake
brought crowning woe. Nearly every
house in the town was thrown down. Out of
a population of between 10000 and 49,
900 inhabitants 5000 or 5000 instantly
perished. The place still bears the marks
of the sudden woe. Whole streets are as
the earthquake left them, except that the
rubbish has been thrown into the ruined
houses on either hand. Then the people
were images of distress. For four months
the town has been blockaded, and all bust
ness, except that of war, has of consequence
been suspended. Hunger rules. The peO-
pie l met were thin and haggard. They
looked as if they had Just escaped from
mortal sickness. And sickness was pre-
vaing ON every hand. From eight to ten
poor wretches were daily dying from star
walton or disease induced by hunger. /
dined with Mr.. Folsom, whose house was
full of refugees and their baggage.
The CbOlerR--The Ice-Bag Remedy.
In letter to the London Times, Dr.
John Chapman gives an interesting ac-
count of the result of his treatment of
cholera patients at Southampton, by the
application of ice-bags to the spine. He
states the points of his theory as follows
4" That the nausea, vomiting, copious dis 5
,harge of the well-known rice water |
jtools, cold sweat and peculiar odor from |
he body, are due to the combined action i
If the hyper@mic spinal cord and sympa-
hetic nervous centres, in the same manner e
Is they induce phenomena of the like kind, c
hough in less degree, in cases of summer
liarrhGa, and of sea-sickness when it is
accompanied with diarrhea q
"That cholera is neither contagious nor Il
in any sense whatsoever, ex-
ept through the depressing influence of q
ear.
"That cholera may be completely avert
d, and, when developed, cured by mod n
flying the temperature of the spinal re- p
Jon" s.
Aftnr detailing. the symptoms of two
ases of cholera which fell under his OBJ
ervation, DR.. Chapman offers the follow z
ng suggestions for the use of the lce-bag s
81. The cold must be applied along only b
narrow strip-not more than four inches h
road in the adult-down the very centre
f the back.
40 The cold must be dry, not wet cold. .,
"3. The ice-bag should be continued q
long the whole spine only until the II
ramps and algide symptoms have been
ubdued.
"A. The ice-bag should be continued to C
e applied to the whole half Of the spine q
ntil vomiting and purging cease. a
5. The patient should be assiduously P
watched, to guard, in the state of reaction, y
gainst cerebralor pulmonary congestions, g
he development of which will be facii- Z
ated by continuing the ice too long in the U
ervical and dorsal regions.
"6. If such eongestions should occur,
hey will be denoted by heaviness, inco- b
erence, wandering, and by laborious y
reathing, and may be subdued by apply T
ng the double-cOlumned water-bag at h
of one hundred and twenty
egrees, along the lower part of the neck e,
nd between the scapule.
az. If it be necessary to induce sleep
bis may be done by the same bag applied Il
4 the same way" y y