Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-12-20


here, it might be argued that the
treatment could not have been
very successful. Nothing could
be further from the truth than
such a conclusion. The disease
was met and combated fearlessly
by as able a faculty, in proportion
to its extent, as exists III America.
There could not have been less
than five thousand cases, in a pop
ulation of about twenty thousand,
of which FIVE hundred proved ia
tai. Among these five hundred
who persisted by cholera, we have
neither seen nor had reported to
us the case of any Of them where
the subject had demeaned himself
before seizure in accordance with
the prescribed rules of the physi-
clan. A large majority of them
were poor, and without those
comforts which experience has
demonstrated necessary to bar out
the ferocious invader. Many of
them were foreigners, engaged
here on the public works, and who
could not be made to comprehend
that they were dangerously i'll un-
til in the jaws of death. Again,
they had, many of them, their
Water and Cancer Doctors. We
are confident we hazard nothing
in the assertion that a large ma
Ijority of those who died were not
seen by a physician before being
collapsed. The treatment we
have indicated was prompt and de-
cided in its beneficial action, rescu-
ing the patient from imminent per-
il, and placing him on sure ground
in a few hours.
We have battled with every ep-
idemic cholera, from the first to
! the last day, in our region of OPP
Grafton, which has visited this
country, and we affirm, without
the fearof successful contradiction,
the following truths of this pesti-
lence which walketh in darkness,
and destruction which wasteth at
MONDAY:
l. That prudence in the use of
all things pertaining to man as an
animal, is of the first importance.
2. That this prudence, in ma
ny things, is imperfect, and there
fore useless, short of positive in
terdiction-total abstinence.
3. That among the interdicted
is every description of fruit, nom
cereal vegetables, and animal pro-
ducts, as milk and eggs. We
say non-cereal, so as to admit
bread-stuffs, which the goodness
OF God has stamped with inno-
cence even here, for he has de-
clared them the staff Of lie.
We do not regard fruit and
vegetables an egciting cause of
cholera, and we would not be un-
derstood as SO teaching. But If
the ship be orertaken by the storm
Of cholera schile laden acih regeto-
bles, IT SINKS. This is what we
teach. But if SO overtaken with
out vegetables on board, she wealth
ers the storm and enters port un-
impaired. Those during cholera
who eat fruits and vegetables, are
no more liable to be assaiIed than
those who abstain; but if they
are assailed, they die! This is
the rule-the recoveries under
such circumstances constitute the
exceptions. When non-vegeta-
BILE and non-fruit-eater is assailed
with cholera, his system responds
instantly to medicine, while the
system Of the fruit and vegetable
eater will frequently not respond
at all, and his physician will find
the result the same, whether he
put the medicine in the patients
boot or stomach.
Neither in 1850 nor 1854 have
we found asingle instance in which
a non-vegetable and non-fruit eat
er died of cholera, save we count
a few cases of children with sum-
mer complaint dying with SYM
toms of cholera superadded, while
all the deaths occur among those
who indulge in these uery innocent
luxuries. In a conflict with chol-
era, the bullets of the enemy,
from masked battery, are flying
in every direction, and any one is
liable to be hit; but woe to the
soldier who is cut down with fruits
or vegetables in his stomach, for
his wound is almost immedicable. |