New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-11

sixty -nine years leasesof life. The patri-
archs who journeyed with him through
the centuries, never stood in dread Ct
trichina spiralis. AL these visitations
have appeared to assist the physicians
since the days of Pharaoh. 1t Is true We
have no phenomena like that Of Sodom
and Gomorrah to alarm US. but our ex-
emption from the fires Of heaven has only
given place to the desolation of Lisbon
and Quito. The earth swallows up
the community which would have
been consumed by fire in the ancient
cycles. Great tidal waves and terrible
cyclones have replaced the avenging
flames. In fact, we have fallen into
regular series of new and terrible catas-
trophies. Life has been shortened in the
aggregate, which is our first complaint.
Forty-fve years is now all that we can set
up any positive claim to as all average
allotment in the assurance business.
Years ago we fattered ourselves that the
children of men were entitled TO a linger-
ing existence of three score years and ten.
To-day, twenty-five years have been
stricken from that apportionment, and
the prospect is, that with the dis
covery of volatile and explosive liquids,
railroad accidents, steamboat disasters,
fires, and other inilnical institutions,
Col 1oto HOY
abridgement of the human span. Tri-
china made life miserable, for it sug-
gested daily dying much more horrible
than actual death. An itching sensation
suggested the devouring worm. Fortu-
nately, the disease was more terrible to
the imagination than it was to the system,
and thousands of people who voluntarily
prepared themselves as victims, are even
now living monuments of what they con-
slider miraculous escape. 1t is true they
have avoided pork, and their anxiety has
been almost equal to funeral. Still they
live. But their nerves must suffer from
the discovery of new enemy.
Disease is as active as the most assidu-
Gus inventors It is always preparing
some new combination to attack us with.
We no sooner disarm cholera of its terrors
by drowning it in copious baths of cognac,
than new monster enters on the stage.
The town of Elgin, in Illinois, has pa
tented terrible parasite which attacks the
system and corrupts the blood 1t made
its appearance in the blood of a Mrs.
Daniels, about the first of December, and
was first supposed to be typhoid fever.
The breast gave out fluid dark and I'M
pleasant, which made her infant sick.
This fluid was investigated and living
insect, without eyes, about the five
hundred thousandth part of an inch in
diameter was discovered in the blood.
The victim of this new plague could not
bear to be touched, and after lingering in
agony for several days she died. Her
blood was subjected to microscopic ex-
animation, and it was discovered that the
parasite existed throughout her entire
system. The doctor says the parasite
resembles nothing that he has heard or
read of before, and he declares that its
presence in the bloodwas the cause of
death.
Illinois is il something Of fever about
this new affection. No such thing was
ever seen insidsnof her borders before,
and she objects to breeding any further
such insects In all of which We duly
sympathize with her, perfectly satisfied
to let her keep this new evil until she can
ship it back to its lace Of origin again.
Let her put it away at the earliest moment,
or invent remedy for it that will do to
send abroad when her neiShbors contract
the disease.