New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-01-25

condition gives place to that in which the kidneys have
ceased to perform their Office. and there IL more se
creion. Some patients complain Of an urgent and
painful desire to empty the bladdsr bat the bladder 10
empty already and after death Is found TO be dwinded
to the smallest size the desire may arise from the con-
traction Of the poserior disk Of the bladder hard
against the internal meatus disclosed In
examinations
| The pains Of Cholera sgonizing to the SUFFERER
and at times pitifa TO move the attendants 70
tears The patient tosses necessarily from side to sde
and complains of intoerabe weight and anguish at his
heart As be struggles for breath his implorins looks
and gestures make you almost feel the horror that
burning and gnawing. and wrenohing and sranehns
at his stomach and chest At times. especially when
the cramps are most severe rolls about and screams
and then there 10 that weary weary cry for water
water, water" and that heart.rendng. haunting wall
when the cold, bony grip Of death 10 on him.
| Violent headache Is far from being common
symptom in cboera-a neuralgia pain one eye 10
less rare The cranp is invariably increased moving
In some cases the patient declares himself free from
rain and unessness Just when the deadcold skin aud
the sharpened. anxious features and the absence Of
pulse at the wrist most surely p0rtend speedy disso-
luton.
Daring all this mortal struggle and commoion In the
body the mind remains clear and the perceptions anm'
paired a1os. to the I'll moment Of existence. 1.-THE
patient though sunk md overwhelmed stless. averse
speak, and impatient Of disturbance. st retains the
power of thinking and OF expressing his thoughts. 30
long as his organs are obedient his will" The mortal
lies all downbeatcn and dstraught but the immortal Is
still master ofi,sel. Dr. Lawrie Professor Of Surgery
in the Andcrsonan University, who closely observed
the epidemic as II appeared at Sunderland Newcastle
~ abaa1 IN tIa1 anta
ton Of the majority OF medical men. that the mind Is
arays unimpaired. ssysi. appeared TO him, In many
caseA affected to degree little short of what find
in conclusion Of the brain. He remarked this partcu
larry In several children; when undsturbed they lay in
dull sleepy semtcomatoso state, breathing with per
feet calmness; when roused they thought only Of re-
ievng their distressing sensations and called vocfer
ousy for cold water But he does not say that be found
them irrational incoheren that their condition
other than that which should attend upon conges
tion Of the vessels of the brain.
THE STAGE OF FEVER.
patient having once fairly entered the stage Of
collapse 10 rarely restored to health without passing
through fever closely resembling the yphus miior OF
Great Britain. The system under the influence of the
peculiar and mysterious poison by means OF which the
static Cholera does its work. has been sunk into the
lowest state of human existence Those vessels that
had ceased to pusate, and all those muscular fbrils
that had been for days oonyused. contracted and, as
were knoted and sisted in spasm cannot at once re-
sumo their healthy action Tho ris medca,rI natrra,
In Iesung Its efforts seems for the restora
ton Of the functions and consequently sets up az 8.
aggeised and dangerous action in every artery After
the blue cold period has lasted from 10 to a. seldom
to 4s hours the vital powers begin to rally the circus
ton and animal heat to DO restored the cramps TO re-
lax and the vomiting and purgDg to diminish, they
have not already ceased The warmth returns grad.
uay. the pulse rises in strength and funess and then
becomes sharp, and sometimes hard The patient now
complains OF headache with ringing in the ears The
tongue becomes more loaded redder at the tip and
edges and dryer; thirst continues, but there 10 less
nausea. High-colored urine ia passed with pain, and
in small quantities. The pupil is generally dated, and
soreness felt pressure the hver and
bowels The stools are longer like waters they first
become brown and thiu-thsn dark, or black. and
pitchy; and for some days the bowels continue to dis
charge immense loads of vtated bile profuse criti
cal perspraon may appear the second or third day.
and leave the sufferer convaescent but more frequently
the ouckness Of pulse and heat and dryness Of skin
aggravated the tongue becomes deeply furred. Drown
and dry, and sometimes hard. the eyes sufused and
drowsy; there is dull flush the face, with stupor
and hsayiness Commonly. at this time there
In low iautteIing delirum. or other marked
affections of the brain; dark sordes collect
on the lips and teeth the patient il pale. squalld ana
low catches bis breath. is extremely restless' ana
means solemny" The pulse becomes weak and tremu
ous on the skin rigors alternate with bushes OF heat
Then comes blessed insensbiiy and the patient soon
sinks under the Frustrating effects of frequent pchy
ayine discharges death arriving on the SIXTH eighth
or tenth day. or even later to the very individual whom
the most assduous attentions had barely saved In the
cold stage Constipation is not an uncommon symptom
IN the febrie stage and the urine Is often secreted
abupdantly-in fact dangerous reteutions are 10 90
guarded against It ia probable that the duration OF
the consecutive fever Is in the majority Of European
cases commensurate with the duration and severity OF
the collapse and not materially dependent on the kind
OF remedies employed But. sometimes very mild
case precedes dangerous foyer. especially IN Europe
and sometimes after the seyerest collapse there Is no
ryer a, all, especially In India. III England the con-
secutiye fever has been regarded a. more frequently
fatal unless strictly watched. than collapse tsef and
IN cases Of recovery from even mild forms OF iever
reapses moro or less alarming. have not been very I'M
common there.
Tie points Of difference between the phenomena
The European ard the Indian forms OF the Epidemic
were iDteligen stated by Drs Russell and Barry In
Joint report to the British Government, dated "St.
Petersburg, July 81. 1884," and BY DR.. Lawrie OF
Sunderland and Newcastle. In communication to
The Mdieo Cairsica Rsrier. in 1892 We believe tha'
the same points of difference will be observed In the
Endemic now advancing toward these shores;
First: 1.-The premopi.ory stage occurs In much
larger proportion Of cases in the English than in the
disease In the latter it Is the exception, In the
former the general rule The writer OF the present
article can verify from personal observation. 20 much
Of Ills statement as relates to the phenomena OF cholera
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