New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-01-27

disease ceases to be cholera and becomes continued
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"yII II reaction, with restoration Of circulation,
secretion and oxygenaiion. do not take place. the pa
tent dies In state OF asphy xs the intellectual powers
often remaining but little Impaired III me asI gnsr
OF the lamp Of life Is extinguished This has eeen oeh
witnessed in concentrated miasmal feTers poa witnln
| and without the tropics"
the dead body are eets not causes of the disease
with the exception Of the congestion OF black 5000 In
the internal organs which is almost the only phenome
non observable when Cholera terminates fatally IN
few hours The traces Of Inflammation in various or
gans aer death indicate the effects OF the re-
active fever rather than Of the Cholera which preeeaes
| that fever"
| ITsis Is not so well put Why the exceptioni The
course of the disease being in three stages-he pre-
monitory the cold and the febrilethe second stage
only being true Cholera and the poison manesting its
effects first on the nervous system 1t is clear that the
congestion of black blood is the mechanical cftet OF
paralysis Of the nervous e1reuities primarily and
secondary and consequently of collapse Of the super
fetal vessels whereby the whole volume OF the blood Is
suddenly repealed from the surfaces 70 the oener from
the finer aments 70 the larger branches. and so on to
the great trunks. whhh are found loaded with thick
black blood after death This 10 the whole process and
sequence Of engagement and congestion and there
fore the congestion ohould be regarded the 5s Of
the Cholera proper aud the traces OF vascular excite
and Inflammation the sct Of reaction and the
cause OF the consecutive fever.
TX As we have no means of expeing or neutralz.
ing the poison can only endeaYOr 10 eounteraet IT'S
Effects and 10 assist nature in her remedial movements
the primary or standardization is to restore not
"the equilibrium of the circulation, Dr. johnson has
IT, but the impaired nervous vitality, the paralyzed
nervous energy, whereby that equilibrium was lost.
The balance of nervous power restored the balance oil
al
circulation follows OF course and thensecreion, cal
orifcation orygenation" This is the signal that ma
urs makes in the cramps, and the keyword is Revul-
sion. The Galvanizers tried to answer II, but their
error was the same In principle as that into which the
Beeders fell; for the gavauizers insisted upon adding
something that not wanted, and which could not
have been added IL had been. while the bleeders in
sisted upou taking away something that could not De
spared, and which could not have been removed
EPIDEMIC CHOLERA AND CHOLERA MoRBUs-THE
DIFFERENCE.
British Cholera and Asiatic Cholera, Common
Cholera aud Malignant Cholera, Sporsdic Choleraand
Epidemic Cholera, Cholera and Cholera Morbus-these
are terms COMMONLY employed to mark the distinction
between the two diseases. For our own part we re-
gard it as fact established that in their kind they are
one and the same that the difference is OF degree OF IN
tsnsty and fatality merely. and the presence or alb
sence OF the dfusve cause. In the characteristic
phenomena we find the family likeness very strongly
Marked vomiting and purging pain and eramp IN the
stomach and bowels objections at first thin and watey
afterwards bilious great sickness and distress az the
stomach, spasms in the muscles Of the abdomen and
extremities intense thirst and craving for cold water
sinking OF the pulse, cold and legs, deadpale
countenance, distressed expression cold sweat and
extreme prostration.
Sydenham described an epidemic Cholera Morbus
that prevailed in England in 1862 In his opinion the
disease did not differ from tho Common Cholera, except
that that year. 1t prevailed epidemicaly The Bombay
Medical Board have declared that Sydenhams descrip
tion applies exactly to the Cholera OF India There
fore the people of India might attribute their disease to
importation from England"
Report Of the Roysl Academy Of Medicine OF Paris
says 1.-The Chosra of India Is to Its symptoms the
Cholera Of the ancients and except In intensity and
danger differs but little from ordinary Cholera" The
moot accomplished physicians Of England have in
dorsed this opinion.
The physicians of Montreal regarded the epidemic OF
1882 as differing in no respect from the endemic Chol-
era of the United States and the Canadas. save that
now 1t is epidemic, the organs are affected and
the same symptoms exhibited"
The common Cholera Morbus Of the United States is
most writers declare that it often is and that it FIRE.
quently destroys life in few hours The descriptions
Of this disease found In old medical works, always in
cuded the vomiting. purging, cramps, sweats, and
most of the symptoms OF Asiatio Cholera. Sydenhsm
describes the first discharges as thin and watery aud
Frank says, "At first the egesta like water-then
as If esh had been recently immersed in them; some
times they are white" and adds, in the worst cases
hama fad hv
charges and their toTments become collapsed in five or
six hours and look no longer like themselves" OBJ
serve that 1t is Of Cholera Morbus that be is writing
No symptoms have been described as characteristic
Of Epidemic Cholera that do not sometimes presentshe
selves in Common Cholera Mich stress has been laid
by certain observers on the difference in the discharges
On this point The Msdieo- Chrursea Reriev remarks,
"If the fluids are cooress 1t is considered proof that
the disease is Asiaticif any bile or other colored
fluids, appear. the disease is English Yet the India
Boards. and indeed all careful observers, have &C.
that the discharged fluids form criterion
Of the disease. The Bengal Board for example, tells
that the fluid elected from the stomach wstery,
mostly tasteess transparent or OF whey or ash color
Sometimes it was sour srea dark like infusion Of TEA
starchy mixed with mucus, and yiscid In very rare
cases pure bile was thrown up In respect TO the
alyne eVscuations, tney were Renersn5 "a'oi' 'o"'
less white or muddy-sometimes red and bloodysome-
times greenish and pulpy like half digested yegetaDles
Ia Il not preposterous after this to make the dstinc
ton between the Asiatic and the English disease to
consst in the color Of the motions. FmiEm ne crsde
colori !"
DR.. Jarvis very intelligent physician Of Mortified
Mass. communicated to Dr. Brigham OF Hartford
Conn, description Of avery singular and malignant
disease" that prevailed at Warwick. billy town In
Franklin County Mass, in 1884, The disease made Its
appearance In July. and in five weeks 30 individuals
were attacked, Of whom l6 died. The malady mani