Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-19


the morning and its fall at night.
Nothing can be palmer than the facts that
no parasite can grow or do harm, where it
is not; nor can it grow or do harm where it
finds no natural food for its support. These
remarks apply not only to all that has life,
but to all chemical action. Fire does not
burn without something support combus-
ton. But when the cool airofnightchecks
perspiration, these microscopic germs of
yellow fever or cholera may enter the very
openings through the skin where visible
sweat escaped, and pass with re-
verted fluids into the bowels.
The checking of perspiration, and throwing
watery fluids into the alimentary canal,
mark the commencement of many disor-
ders. The human system is as open all
over as sponge, and more liable to take in
poisonous gases, yapors, vegetable and ami
NAL parasites, than is generally thought pos
sible. Beware of the damp chills of night,
and of rain; and put not too much conf
dence in any works of drainage and sewers,
which kill no seeds of disease. Ships,
steamboats,, railway coaches, travellers and
immigrants, with their goods and trunks,
constantly and widely scatter bro adcast the
seeds CT every human pestilence. This
fact should be neither denied nor concealed
To show how the matter works practically
we will state cases in point: In0184S two
vessels, the Swantcn and The New York /,
left Havre, the one on the S1st Of October,
the other Nov. 8, the one destined for New
Orleans, the other for New York. Both
vessels carried large number Of German
emigrants. On the one cholera appeared
when sixteen days out; on the other in
swenty-six days, or nearly on the same
day in the two vessels, thousand miles
apart; the one in low, and the other in a
high latitude. Some days before the out
break OH the New 7 ork, coming to New
York, there was ransacEing among bag
gage for warm clothing. On the Swanton
going to New Orleans just before the cpl
demic, trunks were opened ard contents
rummaged for light clothing TO suit warm
climate. DR.. Clark iufsrs that, as these
clothes came from an infected place,
they gave the cholera TO the be-
fore well Germans on these ships At sea.
1t is not likely that the pure air over the AT
lantic 200 miles from land gave them the
germs of this pestilence. Ono emigrant
who arrived in New York brought a trunk
of clothing that belonged to person who
and New Orleans these new corners intro
duced the disease. In 1854 cholera passen-
gers came TO Lancaster, Pennsylvania; their
clothes were cent TO high, heslthyiplsce to
be washed; and the relatives who washed
these infected garments died of cholera.
We could easily fill a page of this paper
with facts of this kind; which prove that if
cholera is malarial Ike chills and fever in
its origin, lit nevertheless has propensit es
peculiar TO itself, as a specific something
which DR.. Bel does not fully describe. He
appears to regard it as atmospheric in its
| distribution if not origin. Perhaps it
would be nearer the truth to say That he re-
CARDS it as miasmatic in its origin and ma
ture. The subject of health is ore of uni
versal interest at this time, aud
we give some space to its discussion.
DR.. Bell and all others can see that when
person dies of cholera from washing the
clothing or soiled bedding of cholera pa
tent, it is hardly right TO say and believe
that an case of cholera has ever occurred
except as the result of sleeping at night
where the cause is, and no amount ofexpos-
ure in the cay time, without the sleep at
night in the locality ever gave the disease"
It really makes less difference how one
pants corn or cholera in good soil; natures
vitality will grow and bear fruit, only give
it chance. Professional dogmas can not
change chemical and vital laws.
We will give recent case of man who
left home IN James county in this State, in
a very healthy place, well in the morning,
visited Chattanooga, where cholera exist
ed, was attacked with the disease, and died
at O'Clock the same evening. The CleVe-
land Banner of the 18th instant says:
1--WE regret to learn of the sudden death
of Mr.. Jack Stone, citizen Of Ooltewah,
James county, which occurred st Chatta-
noogs on Tuesday evening last. He left
home on that morning for Chattanooga, in
apparent good health. Shortly after he ar
rived at his destinat on he was stricken
with cholera in its worst form, and only
survived the attack until I O'Clock in the
even ng, when he died."
Mr.. Stone did not live in a cholera a.
mosphere loGg enough to sleep in it one
night or one hour, before he
came to the sleep of death.
The reader will see from the facts which
we have given that DR.. B2ll's idea chat
no amount OF exposure in the day time is
perilous, but that the only danger is in
sleeping in the locality at night" needs es-
sential modification. Medical science is
progressive, and really in its infancy. As
the great mass of tie lmknOacn comes to
light, from wider observation and closer