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Lie stores, belonging to the United Stltcs,
From those buildings the disease spread to
the hospitals and prevailed In both until the
2Sth Of December. >.
Upwards of one hundred persons were Mt
tackled and about one half died. Several oi
these passengers were indirectly from Hre'
men. where cholera was prevalent. In the
early part of December two cases appeared
New YoEk fsy beth ct MstGh
On May 11th It commenced its rasages In
New York proper In Orange street, and con.
tipuel TIL September. In New York alone
there were five Thousand ono hundIcd nnl
s11ty-ono deaths. ~ most instances the well
ted to dlscmbark with their unventtlated
baggage. II tho Infection wasnot nscIibable
to propagation from these passcngelG and
their baggage then II could not DO traced.
,a2 IN BSSR1yn l. ah ths az Hsth h1 q
jamaica. /. /, Juns zth. il il travelled Wesi is
cago, DC. at Boston, Mass, III bark Argyle
arrived on tho 4th Of June, from Scotland
| with cholera on board, and cases occurred Ii
| that city from that time, and II spread tc
several cities and towns in New England
from that point.
| At New Orleans, the ship 5wanton, from
Hnyre, arrived In December, 1873. The dis.
cale had appeared on this ship when about
two weeks from port. Thirteen died of chol
French md German. From this vessel il
rpseal to the shipping at New Orleans, tc
the city Itself, Tie river boats, 'Vicksburg
| Cincinnati, and other places. On the Sth O
January, 1S49, II was at Memphis, and on tht
18th at st. Louis.
| Subsequently, in 1873, Its dcrastations were
fearful at New Orleans, Cincinnati, and In ths
| whole Mississippi valley. Al ST, Louis It.
| violence nud duration were unsurpassed OF
this continent. In Texas It ragged with great
fury, NUMBERING among its victims the gal
liant Worth, Duncan, Yates, and The veserar
| Gaines.
| TIE PRESENT scouH0E.
In 1s6i-'65 the note Of nla1m Is sounded 0
| another epldeMy Of cholera among tho pill
grims, 10 the tomb Of the false prophet, 0
| whom the Pasha Of Damascus estimates tha
| at leust forty thousand have died, and that Ii
since snccumbed to the fell-destroyer. JafIa
| Reyroot- the valley OF tho Nerbnddah, anc
Poouuh have suffered. It has travelled stead
lily westward with much greater rup,dity t.
Constantlnople, up the basin Of the Mediter
| ranean to Gibralter, to Epping and eunder
| second week Of April, 1866; the ship En.lauG
arrived ut Halifax from Liverpool with mort
| than twelve hundred Rteernne Passengers OF
board, several Of whom died OF cholosz
tn the Passage, and more were Ill Of tht
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The English sten,ncr virginia, OF the sauat
line. left Liverpool on The 4th, Queenstown or
the 5th, and arrived at New York on tho 1stt
OF April, 1866; with the cholera on board
She left Liverpool with one thousand and
forty.three passengers. On the fourth day
out the eholera Appeared among the steerase
and two ~ tha crex .i;e1 ~ m y tha u so7as liz
IL NOW o,,aranifncd. II anpeareii at Havana
iotr 1aef autumn, and recently II was carr1ed
IN n xrsseI 10 Kev West. + has arr;Yei Al
n sn ,"1 ~ snnfher rsi,tian . r. ~
,,lat;n. 49, ~ ~ VII ;. ~ naMs. ~
ehe5sra - nnd S echo ae ansyers T Ghst ~ VI
CAUSES.
We will look briefly nt come Of the theories
of the causes Of Asiatsc cholera. which have
tcen held up 10 public view, and like phan-
Tie ZymotIc theory concelves the disease
10 arise and be proragatod by the eptrapce of
a poison into tic blood, aal Its subsequent
deyrlopmcnt 10 be by a process analogous to
Fermentation.
The Telluric theory supposcs the choleraIc
b, lroceu, ,(one Of the natural emanatfons
from he ea1th,) escaping from the earth md
nn;sonins tbe afr. "
poi1"AG Ths Atinnsnher,c . theory Is some .unposed
dnccs he notso1 and Is wafted by the breezes
TO litferent cItues and countries.
Thc EIrctric fhcory .suuposes some mottIfl-
cation II tho atrnosphefic electricity. :.
The OzopIc theory supposes there Is def
c,ency of ozoue In Tie atmosphere during the
matter producsd when current OF ordinary
cIectricfty passes from pointed bodies into
The air1.
The Fupcoid theory from fungus mnsh-
r,oms and eidos resemblance, q botanical or
der IN the class cryptogamia Of Liunacus) at
In MT.
motphe1c.
The Animalcular theory to auimalcule,
~Qitt.c animals not we'll seen without the nil
S.s-.IcEts..ra} in tho aIr-
tASse i ats ooms 81 The ;. many theorie! that
f,. 1--WE oeen " ntonnt ont annS Ias !ast thirty
;.a, 10 teme.hte Gn rne sPeeulalaons on these
various t9eol1es @ W0nt4 @ ne mere n9n eurions than
alss' 1iEa anything E else 81 and Of Which IS % set We
know nothing, except Its dire effects and that
It is p1opogatcd By infection.
Is n INFECTIOUS?
That It j. positively infectious, few who
gress doubt. b infection will be Understood
specific poison lint Is communicated from
one person to anothe< and producing thasame
disease. -
The choleratc poison has long been believed
70 be communicated N s.me way from tue
lions, md often retained in the clothing Of
those who have died of cholera. This will
seem well established whether we take the
reports Of its communication by Scott, Pals
and eh n a s 1a,g Or TIE eh6syya SSy 9o % se S
den BY that most interchangeable observer, Dr..
Fl. II. Berg, in 1850. Or the very lucid and
excellent reports on Epidemical Cholera of
Drs. Baly and Gull, members Of the commit
tee appointed by the Royn1 College Of rhysi-
clans, London, which was Issued IN 1854. Or
h1-c rf%o hsrn vr3k ne