Connecticut western news., 1873-07-11
King Cholera.
His March Through tho Mississippi Val
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 His March Through tho Mississippi VaI-
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 Dispatches from different points in the Mississippi Valley convey the dis nal intelligence that King Cholera is steadily stalking onward. Even at this distance, with the mercury lowering in the nineties, the prospect is far from an agreeable one, with the knowledge of our filthy streets and apathetic au- thorities. It is idle to disguise the fact that great alarm exists. The leading journals of the country are actively en- gagedin discussing measures of proven ton or eradication.
 "Great water-courses, says the Phil adelphia Age, Care said to be avenues along which the cholera tarvels from one part of the country to another. This fact has been tested both in Asia and Europe. No sooner does this pes- tilence make its appearance at one point on stream than it's ravages are noted ] at other stations on the same body of water. In this manner the poison is spread far and wide untila whole nation is smitten by the power of the destroy CT. If the disease now prevalent in some of our Southern cities is really Asiatic cholera, it runs in the old wa tery tracks. From Memphis it jour- neyed to Nashville and Cincinnati. In this manner the lean and bony visitant rode the current and visited the places watered by the waves. From Cincin- natl, water-c courses invite it's progress toward the East. Are we prepared for a disease made more fatal and deadly | by dirty streets, impure lanes, filthy cellars, collections of refuse, and all such provocations of disordered systems and weakened constitutions ?"
 A Cincinnati physician, however, takes the view that the epidemic is purely local; therefore, Cincinnati, Louisville, and the other cities in the East, are safe as to epidemic travel if they simply observe reasonable hygienic precautions.
 Dr. Minor, of the Cincinnati Board of Health, in 8 communication to that body, thought the alarm much greater than the circumstances warranted, al- though he advised stringent sanitary precautions.
 The Cincinnati Gazette, however, takes less complacent view of the matter. In referring to the epidemic of 1866, it says: "In that year sporadic cases, which were as fatal as the cpl demicones that speedily followed, broke out in lager beer sellers family on the east side of Sycamore street, just above Fifth, and we know no reason why the present droppings may not be begin nings of as deadly storm as that which swept over our city seven years ago. There is abundant cause for &C., tion, and if speedy and efficient action is taken, there will be small grounds for alarm.
 [ A Louisville physician gives this di- agnosis of the cases he has attended in that city: Violent vomiting is general ly it's commencement, soon followed by copious liquid evacuations, but it soon changes to a colorous rice-watery dis charge, and after two or three evacua- tions the patient collapses and is urged rapidly to dissolution. In what we called the collapsed state it might be termed the congestive state. There is no shrunken skin, the general blue ness, nor the extremely emaciated form of the cholera subjects of 1866. I have not witnessed in the present malignant form of cholera that cadaverous, that plnched-up appearance of an Asiatic cholera corpse. In almost all the fatal cases to the 7th inst, the exciting cause of the same was traceable to a hearty meal of new this years vege- tables. From late developments we may look for epidemic dysentery to fol- low the track of the present cholera.