The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-15
.GheGnteLIi1ettleers
The ChoIera..-Hhat is ItF yellow Fe-
yer and other Infectious DIseases----
What are they 9,t}1 est:i4

| It is impossible to realize how an in
telligent being can pass by the snbject
of cholera without thorough investi-
| CATION; every man ought to know all
that is known by physicians of its ORR
gin, and how to prevent its attacking
him; to pass it by as matter which he
cannot comprehend, is to acknowledge
ones self a fool or a suicide. 7f.r,5,s :
| When the cholera first appeared, and
typhus fever was only an occasional
I visitant to some filthy district of the
city, there was some apology; but now,
| that 100000 of our population are, by
their abodes and habits of living, offer
ed as food for the pestilence, and are
only awaiting the warmth Of another
season, we hope most earnestly that our
people will shake Off their apathy, and
Try and realize their Ignorance and their
danger. If God ever designed that sell
| fishness should bring its own punish
ment, surely there is fear of terrible
reckoning for New York. The owners
of tenant houses may secure twenty per
cent. this season, but the organic law
is destined toprove hard master; per-
haps the landlord and tenant will go
the same way. 5alst
Diseases are produced by laws uner-
ring in their action as those by which
the body is formed or health restored.
Just as certainly as the merest mite that
dances in the sunbeam, the moss that
|
ming-bird, lordly man, the ponderous
elephant, the mighty whale, and the in
fusoria of the ocean, all originate from
eggs and seeds, just as certainly are IN
fectious diseases produced in the same
way. ,r-r,sa.
confined warmth and moisture; 1t oriEi-
mates directly from those two condi-
tions; united, they produce vegetable
fungus, of microscopic size, which is in
hailed by human beings, and thus pro-
duces the disease. 1t is always brought
to this city in the holds of vessels from
warm climates only. 1t is never pro
pagnted from "a single person to anoth-
er; but it may be brought to any place,
where the necessary conditions of at
mosphere exist, by clothing or cargoes
in bulk; and thus other centres OF pro-
pagation for these vegetable fungi may
Be formed, precisely as we form Inush-
room-bedS from mushroom spawn in
damp and dark cellar; or toadstoois
spring up in the same place, or Mt the
root OF a tree in the forest. Frost Mt
once destroys yellow fever, therefore 1t
is of vegetable origin.
Cholera is not produced by a vegeta-
BILE fungus or moss; it originates in hui
man filth. Wherever human beings
congregate in close quarters and in vast
mum berS, in. a confined atmosphere in
this country, there either typhus fever,
malignant dysentery or cholera infan-
tum Of our Summers are produced.-
Asiatic cholera is producedsb an ami
NAL germ. Itcame first to this country
| in a ship, in June, 1882. 1t first APP
peared in Quebec, passed to Montreal
| by the I4th, and was in New York on
the 25th; no doubt whatever it was con-
veyed in the bodies of travellers, for it
can only be propogated in animal Or
| pnnisms. That il is an animal germ we
I IN show HffSt-lt
| is not like yellow fever, destroyed by
| frost: il has proved very fatal in winter.
| The only animal, we have reason to.
think, that dies from cholera is the hog;
| the hog cholera of the West is very fn-
tai; the symptoms are similar to those
! of man. ISecond-We never had Ash
ntic cholera here till 1892, although the
same conditions essential to its propo-
pation-dense population, confined air
and filth-always existed, and always
produced their appropriate results, ty-
phus-feyer, dysentery and cholera in
fantum-but never ASiatic cholera.
Cholera is defective vitalizntion of the
blood, or want of pure air, producing
defective nutrition. This causes relax
alton of the contractile powers OF all
the blood-vessels of the body, The en-
tire tract of intestines opens its myriad
| blood-vessels, and all the nlbumlnonS
or flesh.making material passes OIL
! from the bowels. 1t is rapid cholera
infantum, only it preys upon the Adults
chiefly. Not a single case of cholera
occurred on board the AtdtdntG IN It's
spacious cabins, during all the terrible
death-scourging among the poor steer
conyincine? There was filth and con-
fined air, animal poison in Its highest
degree, depressing the aeration or life
renovation of the blood; not producing
typhus fever, but cholera. The solids
of the human body are relaxed, when
the blood loses its life-giving power,
and animRlculeS can act readily, per-
baps enter the blood-vessels themselves.
These animalcules unquestionably
could pass by the wind to the -inhabit-
ants of the spacious cabins in the. pos
terror part of the vessel, but then. blood
vessels and nerves were IN good order
and kept the tissues tight enough to
prevent the entrance of the exciting
germs. r zis4
What the cattle disease may be. it is
at present impossible to say. That II
is infectious to horned cattle only seems
to be proved. We have every reason
to believe that it originates from
snecitic animal germ like cholera; that
Germ is produced by fhe animal, and
communicated to nearly every lone that
approaches the sufferer, no matter what
the diet-or general surrounding inhu-
ences of weather, warmth, or the herd
mans care may be. 1t seems to be q
typhoid pneumonia, producing general
suits similar to typhoid fever IN man;
Il ;s not communicable, however, to our
race. T. though we believe deaths have oc-
cnrred with symptoms not diss1mllar
toIthosey who have eaten the hesh OF
animals killed when they had the
disease. Our laws wisely prohibit the
Importation of all animals at present
from abroad who have the CLEFT hoQE
the horse and his kindred are not sud-
iect to the disease.
Small pox, like cholera and syphilis,
is of European origin, because neither
were known in America before the ar
rival OF. Europeans. It Is probaoly an
imal also in its origin, because frost
does not destroy il. 1t sPreaus un
doubtedly by the blood, because II
breaksontinpustul all over the body,
at once. Like the flurin or worm IN
the eye.l and d5uintermuscular worm,
which burrows in the deep5seated mus
Giles of sheep and hogs, and from them
is transferred to man when ne ,eatS the
flesh of those diseased animals raw or
partially cooked, its egg or germ must
get into the system by the olood, ol,, yes ',.s
fuse tall over the body. The vaccine
dfsease which prevents small pox Is
also animal in its nature. 1t forms
oil Gle of little Hessicles precisely nke
rinpIyorm, which is known to be a
| living animal
Measles and scarlet fever are IN
| ldoubtedly of atmospheric origin, be-
cause in three or four days they appear
simultaneously over vast district OF
country. These diseases are unques-
ltionahly also communicable by Seed OF
some kfnd-aninal probably, because
the instances are constant where tnose
not previously affected are attacked py
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