New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-01-25

dons and other salient points become srkfnsy prcmi
nent" We quote from the report Of Dr. Robert Nelson
member Of the Medical Board md Commissioner O
Health q Montreal.
the two great classes Of functions performed BY
the organs OF which man 10 composed. one only ID
primarily parayssd BY the poison Of Cholera The
operations Of the senses and Of the intelligence are
either le untouched or are affected but In secondary
manner Il 10 the ssima, that des the Intelligence.
surveys the scene Of DEATH and trembles
and wonders. Those functions By which mere exist
ence il preservedthose complicated powers BY means
of which We are forever sppropratns. and converting
into part Of ourselves portions Of the matter around
usars, all at once and oil together deranged and dis
abled by the blow of this terrible angel Nutrition IL
spnibilsted, respiration becomes difficult irregular
and inefficient the involuntary muscles no longer per-
form their Offices the voluntary are contracted pam
fu knots by other powers than the will the blood
to circuste its physical properties are altered
its Serious element suddenly thrown out upon the In
testna surface Of the body the secretons are
all arrested, and animal heat 10 no longer produced
The victim Of Cholera does not die "soley OF starva'
ton. caused by vomiting and diarrhes,' a. certain
doctors hold, but by paralysis Of the nervous system
and consequent chemical and organic decomposition
of the blood.
During the prevalence Of Cholera there are observed
among persons otherwise healthy various anomalous
ftctons Of the nervous system-such as cramps cold
sensations Of the hands, feet and legs. peculiar thrill
ng in the exremites of the fingers and toes and an
oppressive feeling Of anxiety In the region OF the
heart.
After the rst or premonitory stage Of Choers. bile
ceases to be formed. We always find the gslbladder
full but this filing has taken place before collapse set
in There are no signs Of bilious absorption
Adult sge exhibits much more lively susceptibility
to the Cholera poison than early life; great numbers Of
children escape IT, simply because they arc less subject
to the predisposing influence Of Fear.
The idea Of Bleeding, in the stage OF collapse mas
its origin in hydraulic theory totally inadmissbe IN
Cholera. There Is not too much blood in the whole
body bat too much at the ceuters and too little at the
surfaces return to healthy distribution and efrela'
ton will not result from abstracting. any more than
from adding, portion Of the dammedup mass. The
cessation Of arteria action not owing to the state OF
the fluids but to determinste arrangement In the
nervous power by which the machinery Of circulation
has been stopped Besides. in most cases you cannot
bleed thckened and stagnant In the vessels the blood
cannot be made to fowj and II few ounces be
squeezed from tho orces 1t hangs from them In long
tarry strings-to no purpose.
The experiment Of Galvansiug Is kindred alb
surdy The desideratum in cholera is not the srppy
or restoration Of vital or nervous power but the propul
sion Of that power to the surfaces from which 1t has
receded.
In our third article We viii state the pathological con-
cusons, and define the Treatment they indicate