The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1869-01-27
Consufnption-Tho Disease Alleged
to be Infectious. 80

to be Infectious. |Fr
DR.. Henry Bow dich writes as fol>
lows te tho last number Of the Atlantic
Mon,bly;
Il was our fortune to attend a man
slowly dying Of consumption, who.
while bopelessly and helplessiy i'll, was
deyotcd!y cared for by his wife, who at
the time felt herself and seemed 10 TO
In perfect health.
Years after her husbands death, and
when btavely battling against the dis
ease, which eommeneed It's insidious
attacks Immediately subsequent 10 his
death, she related TO mo the following
facts, but only on my definite inquiries
as TO how intimate her Relations had
been with him during his illness. 1t
seems that often in win,ry nights, that
faithful woman would arise tom The
side of her husband, who was lying
with his clothing drenched with the
sweat OF increasing disease, and would
persuade him 10 take her warm cloth
ing and lie down IN the dry warm place
she had just left, while, simply throw
ing a blanket over il, she would take
the spot previously occupied by him.
Upon our expressing horror at The
thought Of the danger she had run, aud
which apparently had told with 50
much power upon her, she quietly re-
marked that she knew at tbs lime the
danger she WAS ineurring. She had no
thought Of danger 10 herself, and only
x,f H.. .Ioa ~. l.pI W u11.
cd she, q then got what / ne, er recoV-
cred from" A certain vitality seemed
10 so Out Of her; and though her ua
ture contended for many years against
the enctoachment Of the disease, she
fiually died, always believing that she
had taken consumption. from her hus-
hand, but with n certain martyr like
Joy that such had really been the fact.
We have now in our mind other
and analogous cases, as for example,
husbands la, ing their fret cough when
"inbaling the breath Of their sick
wives,n while minislering TO theii ne
cessi;ies, We have known daughters
aud sisters, who, full Of apparent health
and strength, when consumption has
seized mother or sister, Gave con-
tinued 10 sleep with the invalid, and 10
breathe The same closed up atmosphere
at night, and 10 watch all day without,
perhaps, a moment of heal,hful out Of.
door exercise. And we have been dis
tressed 10 find not few Of such heal
thy young persons gradually beginning
TO suffer with indigestion, debility, and
fiaally cough, and all The symptoms Of
CONSUMPTION. In some Instances, iG
fact, the attendant has died before The
life of the original patient has ended.
These facts are very significant, and
though we are well aware that, in some
cf them, other elements Of disease may
have had their fatal influence, still the
cases have been full Of suggestions Us
TO the necessities Of greater precautions
than we 10 this country have usually
taken in this matter. ~
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Bots DE BoLorGNE.-The Dois de
Boiougne, which is the pride Of Paris,
Is q park Of magnificent distances. II
contains over twenty three hundred
acres, and has thick growth Of va
rious kinds OF forest trees. lndeed,
since The Improvements were com
menced in 1851, more than Two hun
dred thousand trees are said to have
been planted 10 the Bois. II is also
abundantly wateTcd. lis lakes and little
streams being supplied by an arsesiau
we'll at Pussy, which springs from
depth Of eight hundred and seventy
five feet. There are no less than four
teen lakes in this renowned pleasure
ground, The largest being abou. mil'
in length. Many Of them are wei
filled with Gsh, which flourish rema'ks
bly,. There are nearly seventy miles o
carriage-rosds, and over thirty miles o
shady paths for horseback iiders.---
, Moreover, Il eonfaius one Of The larges
race courses in tho world. There ar
in ii,is park some immense oaks ant
cedsys. which are suppo<ed 10 he fou
or rve centuries old. No wonder tn
Paisians are proud Of the .Bois d!
Bolougns. l8' ss.
A BouRBos has just declared himsel
IN favor Of tho Republic. Henry j.
bourbon, brother of the ex King Q
Spain, has addressed letter 10 ih
Iiro,iaional Government, in which b
attacks vigorously the ambition Of In
Duka of Mont oepsier. declares that tb