Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-08-14
rHE MILDER sYMpToMs OF CHOLERA.

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characterized by premonitory diarrhea, a
sudden muscular debility, treinors, vertigo,
occasional nauseau, spasmodic gripping
pains In the bowels, depression Of the func7
tions of respiration and circulation, copious
purging of serous fluid (rice water), sue
ceeded by vomiting and burning heat at
the stomach, GOODNESS and dampness of the
whole surface of the body, coldness and liv-,
edness of the lips and tongue, cold breath,
a craving thirst, feeble and rapid pulse,
difficult and oppressed breathing, with ex-
treme restlessness, suppressed urinary se-
cretion, blueness of the entire surface of the
body, partial heats of the pr@cordia. and
forehead, total collapse, or reaction and 'te-
yer. ..- .p a~-I9.#I.@ la iHH0 9Jt ~ 3'DH
According to the accepted theory, .chole-
ra Is azymotic disease, propagated by con-,
tageon and atmospheric influence; spe-'
clfc poisonous matter being absorbed into
blood, which Operates to disorganize its
component elements. But when the attack
is not sufficiently severe to produce speedy
coma and dissolution the system makes an
almost superhuman effort to rallyand throw
off the morbid agent, thus producing the
symptoms just enumerated Sometimes it
succeeds. The patient then may recover;
but not unfrequently he dies from eXhaus-
tioh produced by the effort. 'i '.f .f
HISTORY OF CHOLERA. 't'''
All theories of the origin of cholera assign
it TO India. In the district of Jessore, in |
the province OF Bengal, it appears to be in
digenious and permanent. In l764 over
thirty thousand of the natives of .Hindos- 4
tan perished from its ravages. In 1920 it
scourged the presidency of Bombay, carry
ing of one hundred and fifty thousand per-
sons. The next year fifty thousand fell
victims to it at Bassora. 1t had now set
out on its travels to the countries of the
Mediterranean, following by the CONNER
cial thoroughfares. lnqlS30 it devastated
Russia. - ..,f.
In October, 1881, It reached the north of
England. The atmosphere at the time was
singularly stagnant close and hot, for many
weeks atterward. In Europe all great epi-
denies have occurred in periods of pro-
longed drought; violent and copious rains
checking, and gentle rains dtfusing them.
Cholera appeared at Dantzic on the 9th
of May, 1881; and on theD10th of June
Field Marshal Diebitz, commanding the
Russian army in Poland, fell a victim. The
Grand Duke Constantine also died on the
9th. In Austria 1910 perished, and
10000 in Hungary. The mortality in
Paris was 1S,402, and in England over
10000. In 1882 it crossed the Atlantic, hur-
rying from city to city, and sweeping down
the Gulf of Mexico to Yucatan and Cam
peachy. r - OIL. t. .-
The rate of its mortality was uniform in
every part OF the world. The period of the
epidemic seems to have controlled it. At
the first outset nine-tenths of all attacked
became victims; then seven-eighths, five
siXths, three-fourths, one-half, one-third,
&c. The feeble, the sick and convalescent
were surest to die. t- 1a +... Jg4.sll
In 1S46 the choleraic tendency again pre-
vailed; and in lS49 the scourge of the East
again visited this country. 1t seems to have
been somewhat more controllable by rem
edial agents; but nevertheless maintained
its general severity. 1t broke out again in
1854; and during the Crimean war it was
particularly mortal in the allied armies.-
1t seems to have been communicated to
them by encamping on grounds which the
Russians, who were suffering from the pes
thence, had previously occupied. ....
THE CHOLERA IN ARABIA AND EGYPT.
The annual recurrence of the May festi-
val of the Mussulmans at their holy city
has proved to be the occasion of menacing
Europe and America with another visita-
ton. According to the accounts, aboutone
hundred and fifty thousand pilgrims had
repaired from Egypt to Mecca to celebrate
the Kurban-B -Bairam. They were free from
contagious disease till their numbers had
been increased by others from India. Then
the pestilence appeared in the milder form
of cholerine, carrying off about three hum
dred victims daily. The dead bodies were
left.to rot in the streets unburied, the per-
son employed by the Turkish Government
to inter the dead and remove the decaying
refuse, neglecting to perform his duty
This tended further to propagate disease,
which soon assumed greater virulence.-
On their return to Egypt the pilgrims were
compelled at SueZ to remain at a distance
from the city, and to report without delay
every case of cholera occurring among
them. At Alexandria they were obliged to
encamp ON the canal and railway. In that
part Of the city the pestilence was most Sc
we're. 1t was conveyed to Cairo and other
towns, where at latest advises it was still
raging. s..,. ..fl a.l' b .sr- He.i. -ra.
WILL THE CHOLERA COME WESTWARD?
tits reported that the cholera has abated
at.Alexandria, and the French surgeons are
convinced that it will also cease its ravages
at Cairo and Upper Egypt. They assert
that "the presence of the cholera there is
purely accidental, and that there is good
reason to believe that it will neither assume
the character nor prevail as long as those
epidemics which in former periods and
countries decimated the Inhabitants" The
mildness of the type which the disease has
assumed, and the precautions taken at
Tunis and other places; give good grounds
Of hope in this respect. But the report
that it has already appeared in Sicily and
Constantinople leaves ground for apprehen-
sion,r -,
Besides, ft' is a popularity OF cholera ep-
idemics that they aremost frequently made
up of a succession OF 'AaEtial local out
breaks, not only in different, districts, but
in the same place. The pestiIence' will Of
ten visit place at the beginniRg of the
epidemic, then leave it for time, and af-
terward return. Under these circpmr
stances it is too early to predict that it is
about to cease It's ravages in Egypt and the
East, or that 1t will not visit the Western
countries. There are strong reasons, how.
ever, to believe that the alarming accounts
of its rayages are eXaggerations,, Besides,
the present epidemic Cycle seems ID! favor
the production of diseases allied more or
less closely to influenza, a circumstance ap-
parently unfavorable to the early invasion
Of cholera. ,,,,., A.. .'-,
tt,. ID, HOW CHOLERA IS PRoPAGATED.
1t is almost universally considered by
physicians that local causes Of unhealthfui-
ness are necessary for the development and
propagation of Il cholera in its epidemic
forms. DR.. Farr shows that in London the
lower the soil the greater the prevalence
and mortality Of the pestilence. Impure
water also has a powerful INFLUENCE over |
the intensity of the disease; yet neither bad |
water or low soil are necessary clements in |
tho Uenaration Of cholera n0ieon. Dacom- |