The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-05-09

1t people this season do not have chole-
ra, smallpox, trachina, plague and other
dreadful diseases, it will not lie for want Of
alarm by boards of hcalth,'' reports of
distinguished mcdicists, movements of COM
mon councils, &c., &c. There is scarcely
a paper published but contains alarm
enough to give the best-nerved man appre-
hension of the future. The President, by
advice of his Cabinet we presume, has ap-
pointed day of fasting and prayer MAY
~ to avert the dread visit of the Asiatic
cholera. This is very proper on the prin-
ciple that when people have prayed well
they are less liable to fear, and hence not
SO easily inoculated with pestilence. 1t is
said that sick persons of Catholic belief,
after receiving absolution and extreme unc-
ton, very frequently recover. The cause
is found in the mental composure which
follows Punishment of fear as to the flu
ture, and of course a corresponding indif-
ference as to the present. Alarm, dread,
fright, and their allies, produce quite as
many fatal cases of contagious" or infec-
tious disease as the contagion itself, and if
fasting always good observance, provided
it be not too long observcd) and prayer will
secure quietus of the nerves, by all means
let us have it. Aside from the moral in
Aucnce produced, we are wicked enough to
think that the Great Creator of myriads Of
planetary systems will scarcely change the
immutable laws of Nature to oblige few
of us poor death-fearing souls who occupy
merely limited space on one Of the small
est worlds of the solar system. 1t may be
a question whether this plan of public
functionaries to avert pestilence is not cal
,ulated to produce quite as much alarm
as it cures. The principle is mainly good
ono, INIT IS it not possible to e~A.-dn tho
business? We think that such frequent
calls on Providence to do some extraordi-
nary act of prohibition are calculated to
lower the value of the act as a moral pre-
ventive of disease, and hence of little use
but to stop this brief article before it APP
proaches the length of a modern sermon,
we append some sensible cholera talk from
an exchange and leave the subject to the
contemplation of the readers of the TINES +:
GA physician gives, through the Cincin-
which it would be we'll for all to read:
AL
purgatives of every kind. Twenty persons
die of diarrhea to one Of constipation !;
and any irritation got up in the stomach
and bowels, during choona times, will be
likely to frighten the person into cholera.
have known some of the stoutest Of men
in cholera times to die of nothing else but
fear.
Above all things, do not change your d.
ct or habit Of living, unless you have been
living in filth if so, cleanse yourself, and
make everybody about you cleanse them
selves and keep themselves clean.
Tincture of camphor can be bought at
any drug store; it is the best remedy Eu-
rope and America has found for cholera in
its first stage. Get half pins, but don't
20 to taking it for fear you may have the
cholera before the summer is over, but put
it where you can find it, if you should be
attacked with cold sweats, cramps, vomit-
inr or diarrhna. Don't fear the cholera,
but put few drops Of the camphor in the
palms Of your hands, rub them together
smell til EN-, put few drops in some sugar
and take every ten Or fifteen minutes, and
YOU have no need to fear the cholera but
he sure and abstain from all quack nos
trums protesting to be preyentives of chol
era. No drug, no matter how simple
ought to enter the human system while in
health.