New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-12-05

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fingers and that ominous sinking had set In Nature
appalled, and parsySed by the stunning stroke o. the
fierce Angel OF Reform seems TO stink away and leave
the field him. retiring like Achilles to supineness and
despair and only the hopeful patient and sagacious
calls Of science can rouse her to arms again
We will suppose that the Cholera having fanked all
the quarantine defenses, has entered hew-fork
and that its presence has been honored by ohca re-
| cogniton. You have friend, with Cholera on the
bran-nervous anxious, scared the eyes OF his mag
nation continually turned inward upon his stomach
and bowels with morbid fascination sufficient by its
very magnetism to conjure "cramp" there Perhap'
he has been dyspectic, subject to ndigestions ana
troublesome alterations of constipation and iooseneS
Perhaps he has domestic or business anxieties that
keep his spirits depressed Perhaps his occupation is
INV holesome-confning. exposing or everlasting
him. invading his hours Of natural and necessary rest
Perhaps he is an Incorporate man, given to spells OF
excess followed by corresponding spells Of shakes,
with loss of appetite and seepesness and vague Alarms
and all the other reproachul shapes of nervous pros
tration Perhaps by Labit necessity he is keeper
of bad hours out in the chilly and damp air Of night
man, too, familiar with Wet feet and irregular and
hurried meals. Perhaps, on the other hand, he is
pampcred equity gcurmand. committing slow suicide
ishing in the face of Providence cucumbers radshes
and hard boiled eggs Perhaps-a hundred peradven'
lures all ending in the certainty that 10 Is ready.
made for the Cholera and that he is scared.
Well. this cut. and dried victim who is neither filthy
DOR lewd nor naked nor starved nor houseless nor
squalid but only respectfully unfortunate or fool
does not feel well this morning"in fact his sensa
tons are exceedingly queer not soy alarming. "Do
about md vi
premonitory symptoms :" And then he goes on to de
scribe them to you with unconscious accuracy. i'm
pressive as diagnosis aud touching by its melancholy
portent.
For several days he saws be has had vague feeling
of uneasiness accompanied By of heat and dis
order in the stomach and bowels, with looseueSs-a
simple fcculent diarrhea with little gripping. the
movements steadily increasing in frequency day by
day at first there but three yesterday there were
| a dozen He has occasional nausea with moro and
more asstude and languor He is gddy too, at times.
and very weak especially just after purg ng. Has he
| headache Rarely. and never much. But he has an
empty hollow feeling. and this morning. nj daybreak.
he yomited-hin watery stuff mixed with little BILE.
and some undgested food. How did he pass the |
nightir Badly He shivered some. his stomach and
bowels were distended and he called to stool
three four times passing thin sort OF whsh water,
like whey or the rice water that his Cholera book
he has been reading Cholera books, you pcrcevc-so
often mentions. There were starchy looking fakes
floating in it, with some bile at frs but that grew less
He very restless had ringing in bis ears and
.ingng sensation in his hands and feet first in one
and then the other II they asleep and once or
twice his foot was cramped. You feel his pulse-per
haps il is somewhat accelerated and weaker than in
health; you look at his tongue-not much alteration
there-it is moist and slightly furredbut he says bis
mouth is dry, and be feels thirsty. You observe par
cuary that his features sharp and that his conn
tenance wears an apprehensiye. anxious expression
You advise him to go straight TO bed and send for
doctor. But he doesn't Jones. who is also hi friend
much "bosomeI' than you-Jones. who has all the
common sense and is such practical strong headed
fellow, you know-ones who felt uncomfortable
au hour in his LIFE and don't believe in Doctors and
their nasty truokJones says "Nonsensei you're only
scared"-half right, Jones that sort OF people ere al
ways half right-"Kecp yourself quiet. aud don't eat
anythng-then your bowels will have nothing to purge
about Guess conundrums and leave this iitts shake
to nature and you'll do" Between Jones and Nature.
let us see what he comes 10.
An interval OF twenty-four or perhaps foFfy'eight
hours had elapsed before you see him again Can this
be the same man f-Ah Jones, what have You Done
with your conundrums and your nature 1.-The hand oil
Death Is on him. You read his DOOM in bis cadayerous
countenance; in the lyid circle around Ills
mouth and his dull sunken eyes; in the sharp con
tracted features in the blue lips and the leaden brown
or even purple face aud understanding 10 the SHADE
of his complexion and the intensity of the attack; IN
the yrinkled sodden, washer woman's myers ron
which the rings have dropped Off in the blnsh pearl
wilderness of the nails in the almost backness Of the
lines tracing the larger superficial veins in the abored
irregular. anu broken reputation" inspiration ap'
pearng 20 be effected by immense effort OF the ccsi
while the nostrls instead Of expanding collapse and
stop the Dgrcss of the air and expiration is hurried
ard conyulsiye.'
You call hin BY his name, and he answers with
HELPLESS wild terrorstricken stareyou read bis doom
in that; and that LOOK. If You are doctor you VIII
never forget II il the very catastrophe Of forofnness
You read his doom In his ncessart tossing from tde to
side and lis agoniziug travail and struggle for breath
the throes OF a in the fierce pangs oil labor
You read IL in the shrunken toes in the spreading
"dead.body" discoloraon Of feet and legs and thighs
and arms. and presently Of chest and abdomen Also
Won read il in the wthored hand laid piteously,
an,ooIingly on gtomach and breast You feel II in
the puse. small as thread. and hardly vibrating.
,oou TO be totally extinct. You feel II in the
deadly GOODNESS and cammy dampness OF the
skin; in the tongue, perhaps white ana loaded
In, always moist and habby and chilled "liSe BIZ Of
dead Aesh the dog snose FEEL iou hear 1t In the
almost gone voice. in the plnye whisper OF Tat eter
nal water water water in tho occasional weak
suffering whine in that dreadful low wall (which no
Won yho has once heard IL can ever forget-the lowest
ooan OF the most wretohed mendcant goes not to the
heart more pognanty" II lie tries to speak it Is by
only one word at a time-hs lungs cannot retain all