Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-08-04
6eneral Sntellioeate.
THE CHOLERA.
It's Causes ana Remedies.

The following important paper upon the
causes and treatment of cholera has been
forwarded to the board of health of New
York, by j. w. Carrie, of Aspinwan:
''AsPINwALL, June 49, 1869-To the Me-
tropohtan Board of Health, New York: In
the summer of 1860 / transmitted to your
board the following communication:
g Nos. AZ AND 40, LIBERTY STREET, New
York, August, 1866-To-day's papers con-
tain the remedy you recommend for the
cure of Asiatic cholera. During the preva-
lence of that disease in the West Indies, in
the years 1850 the same remedy was
successfully applied in several cases of
cholera, which came under my personal OBJ
servation; however, there is still needed
something more-a preyentive-in order
to enable the people to combat successful
ly that terrible disease therefore, with this
view, allow me to call your attention to the
following: Five to ten drops spirits of
eamphor mixed in water, and taken morn
ing and night, will be found to be an in
valuable preventive. This I tested, with
others, and, although the disease carried
off large number of the Inhabitants of
the island where we resided, all who made
use of the above preventive were not even
troubled with the premonitory symptoms
of the disease. J. W. CARLF.'
"Your board indorsed the suggestions
contained in the above communication and
gave it to the press of the country for gen
eIal publicity. 1t is q we'll known fact
that the ravages of the cholera in its late
visit to northern parts of our continent
were harmless, when compared with the
former periods of its terrible visitations:
and, to whatever cause this fact NAV be
assigned, be it to the use of effective re-
medies or to that of judiciousIy selected
preventiyes, it is nevertheless consoling to
know that the Asiatic cholera, that once
formidable scourge of mankind, is now di-
vested of its terrors.
ga close examination of the water of
various localities the writer has visited re-
yealed the fact that it obtained more or
less animulculas, imperceptible to the ma
ked eye. In countries, where endemical
diseases of a dangerous character exist the
anlmulcule appear more numerous, larger
and apparently of q fiercer nature When
ever an epidemical disease, such as chol-
era, sweeps over the place the local ami
mulcula appear to be reinforced by others
of different appearance, that appear and
disappear, with the disease, adding to
water a few drops of spirits camphor seems
to benumb and render them harmless.
''The object of the present communica-
other facts elected by recent experiment.
The boiling of the water found in the most
unhealthy localities, using it afterward with
or without ice, divests it Of all the injurious
properties, renders it perfectly healthy, and
very often lmparts to 1t medicinal proper
ties. The endemical diseases prevailing on
this coast are various and tenacious; when
formerly a resident on this place the writer
was continually troubled with fevers and di-
arrh9a; it is now nine months since his
return, during the whole time he has used
no other but water well boiled, and has en-
ioyed the best of health. Others residing
here have adopted the same beverage; they
all find themselves in the enjoyment Of the
best of health, although previously they
were continually i'll. The writer has gained
10 pounds IN weight since his departure
from New York fifteen months ago.
''These are facts, and every fact possesses
its philosophy. 1t seems to be the destiny
of the human mind to control nearly
everything within its reach; many of the
most powerful forces of nature are made
subservient to its laws; the influence that
has chained the lightning, rendering it the
seryile conductor of the behests of man,
may yet be able TO conquer the deadly eli
matte influences which render some of the
fairest portions of our1 globe the graves
instead of the cheerful habitations of man.
1t may be that the great secret of prsserv-
ing the health, and perhaps even that Of
prolonging human life, are Intimately and
indssolubly connected with the knowledge
of knowing how to detect and destroy the
seeds of disease and death found in the
water we drink. This is subject worthy
of serious inquiry, and of great interest to
all; for disease, with its sad train of grief,
mourning and woe, revels as unrestrained
and unchecked on the shores of the Hudson
as on those of the Rio Chagre.
J. W. CARLE"