The New York herald., 1866-04-23
The Value or Quarantine.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

settled fact in the history Of the cholera It's steady
persistent irresistible westward movement This
ment is evidently planetary" and hence II does not stop
at the Quarantine station any than do tho tides OF
the An unsettled question in the history OF tho
cholera is whether nations and large bodies OF people
lying In the inevitable track this persistent
movement Of the cholera be protected wholly
part from the havoc Of me disease Much Of the
fusion which prevails In the scientific well in the
popular mind In regard the cholera arises from the fact
that three very different things generally coufounded
often in conception and nearly always in expression
Those arc:-lst tho disease itself ID the Of the
dsease-no matter whether that cause is n miasrn or
microscopic vegetable animal beings, something
sse ad tho condition which breeds and propagsles the
The contagionIsts well ~ the gonsts
all admit the fact that thcrs is something about the
cholera which moves steadily westward, aud al its
pace II being neither accelcrntcd retarded by
the winds, nor by human travel nor by commercial
he'd nor impaired, nor communca,ed Il 10 therefore
not pondcrabv, portable element s neither earth,
air nor water, but 10 something more ethereal than
either II must be an imponderabe element therefore,
sthsr electrical magnetic; and u has planetary
movement In the same that the movement of the
udes planetary v dsscribs - The revolution of
magnc<c MERIDIAN great magnsuc, tidal wave vssh
. westward now, which human power ON no more hur.
~. 70 ard OF arrest hAa cea change .hs polarity Of u
dsnompated the oondirou, tbs esmcnt withis which
esasrated and propasasd whss call the o. he
ties vh,eh srs submsIscd n ,his masnesc 1--WE
vhsshcr an the lana or In thc trsc Of ths smer.st p
In Inc middle az he Atlantic Ocean Hut While 10 :
sstsIed fact thss what Ne have denonased the cond
ton travels steadily apd irrcsisiIby westward, u ~
aso fnr1 that ansoetstsd with the cholera thers In
something slss which is portable transferable pondcrl
bls-s something which borne upon the wings OF
merce and waited BY the sweep Of the winds from
Qusrrr Of the globe 10 another. am that ths
NON eostaeonists deny this bat the facts proof Of
are too numerous and TOO well aitessAd by of the
highest scientinc attainmcnts we'll by practical
common Observer 10 admit Of = doubt of its
truth. This pondersble portable, transferable thing,
whether n be miasm or Q swarm Of microscopic life,
constitutes what have denominated the of the
cholera Il IN the thing which, by either external
internal With the human body gives rsc 10 the
disease In the above view Of the subject II In easy TO
explain the apparent anomalies which have been OBJ
served In tho progress Of the cholera II In equally easy
70 explain how II happens that there is clas~ Of
learned scientific and observing men who srcnuousy
contend that the eholera not contagious and another
class OF equally learned, scientific and observing men
who insist that the cholera contag Cnconscousy
10 themselves, the non contAeionss have baeed their
opinions solely the facts connected with the move
ments Of the condition-the magnetic wave; while the
contAgiopiss equally unconscously W themselves have
drawn their conclusions solely from the facts connected
with the movements OF the cause.-the miasm, OF
the swarm OF microscopic life II 10 equally obyous
that In the above view cf the subject there 10 much
unnecessary alarm In the public mind about the impors