Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-15


law died (and she WAS the first of the trio
to die1, determined TO get rid OF bis beans.
For this purpose he took a large dose OF
tartar emetic, which give him an artificial
cholera, throwing out of his organism every
bean, and every fragment of bean, when
he was well, and passed through the chsl
era season without a symptom.
1Mr. Adler, merchant On Broad street,
ate piece of fresh fish for supper. Not a
member of large family would touch 1t
hut himself. He went to bed well, and got
I'D well. During the morning he was s L.
ed with cholera, and before bedtime he was
dead! Not one of his family took cholera.
ga lady on South Cherry street ate with
milk some raspberries for dinner, and was
dead before bed time.
"One of the most beautiful and accom-
plished young ladies in the city ate two CT
three pickles, and died.
"Of the cholera at Union City, in this
State, the Union City Courier Gays: we
have yet to learn of one case that was not
developed BY jmprudence in diet.
OF the eleven persons who ate OF the apple
dumping on Tuesday, at Mrs. Blakemore's,
nine have died of the cholera, two of Mrs.
Blakemore's children among the number
aLet any medical book-making or jour
nalistic physician, who advises fruit and
vegetables in cholera times, read these de-
tails and think; a complex process, and irk-
some to the self-indulgent, with whom it is
law never to do anything they can make
any one else do for them"
In this connection, DR.. Bowling said in
1866: "sSage experience bids US declare
that while fruit will not excite cholera, pos
sibty, yet it almost insures the fatality of
an attack of that disease. When nom
vegetable and non-fruit.eater is assailed
with cholera, his system responds instantly
to medicine, while the system of the fruit
and vegetable eater will frequently not
respond at all, and his physician will find
the result the same, whether he put The
medicine in the patients boot or in his
stomach" In another portion of his
pamphlet, DR.. Bowling makes this 'expla-
ton :"
any allusion to vegetables and animal
products is thought, by good judges, to be
vague. Ny cholera diet, to be explicit, en-
braces mutton, beef, bacon, venisoD, spring
chickens, matured chickens, corn meal, flour,
rice, tea and coffee. Hexcludes everything
else--fruit, garden vegetables, every one, for
| / have traced death to each; nuts OF all
| kin 8. Animal products are the great table
| luxuries directly from animals, as milk, but
ter, cheese, eggs, and honey. These DIR.
Bowling includes among the prohibited ar
ticles,]
"If one will observe these rules, assert
| that be can save himself from cholera
death, though cholera kin the whole world
beside. This observation began in the
cholera of 1882, and all the cholera epidem-
les since, have confirmed the truth OF IL.
! In the cholera of 1855, two eminent preach
| ers here ate, one of them apples and the
other watermelons publicly, and in derision
of the doctrine here asserted, and ofthat de-
liyered to man in the beginninr, that the
stomach, under all conditions and clrcum-
stances of man, vas not an accomplishing
depot to everything forwarded to it by the
mouth or the gullet route, and they both
| died.
Col. Ament asserts, and after much in
| quiry, believe it, that Notwithstanding the
awful mortality among our colored people,
not one of them died who lived in white
family; and it is notorious here that all the
white families likely to keep colOred ser
wants, religiously adhered to the above chol-
era diet, as our physicians, thanks to their
good sense, generally enforced it. One
clergyman died, but no lawyer or physician
was lost. The clergyman was 3 highly
educated, good man, of good Connecticut
family, and died from that innocent New
England dish, strawberry short-cake-"
DR.. Hamilton eiailas to have driven the
cholera off Blackweli's Island, New Works
city prison or workhouse, in 1856, and EMU
merates vegetables cabbage, We believe.
being prominent-as one of the means
DR.. Bowling says;
"The lessees of our Peni.entiary EN-:
ployed Dr.. Menees, on the Och Of June, tc
see to the convicts, the first case of cholera
| in the prison being on the Oh, after din
ner OF pea or beans, wpich was contrary
to the order of the pr on physician, DR.
Henry. No fruits or vegetables or animal
products were allowed afterwards. To the
close of the season there were but seven
deaths, and most of these, if not all, occur
red among such Of the eonviets as
were taken out into the city
every day to work. DR.. Henry
nor DR.. Menees could not sly all the
deaths occurred among those VINO worked
ont and had chances OF fruit, etc, but those
that hid occur among such, after the 'DeaI
dinner and those who died from that din
ner, both physicians believe, embrace about
all of the deaths. DR.. Menees, like DR..
Hamilton, was employed TO drive cholera
off our BlackwelPs Island, or prison
ground. | learn from DR.. Henry that,
tho g who live in and eat in the prison
number five hundred. Now, then, Drs.
Menees and Henry sta nped out the cholera
seed at Blackwell, with loss of sew N il
five hundred; and so far from making q
flourish about ARE disposed to apologize fol
the loss of a single one, while DR.. Hamil
ton in his stamping, lost one hundred and
tWenty-three out of eight hundred, and the
New York magazines are Boosting OF it tc
this hour"
THE NUMBER OF DEATHS.
DR.. Bowling makes no estimate of thu
number of persons who died from choler:
during les "late rampage" but he repro
duees from the UNION AND AMERICAN O
the I'd of July, our tabulated statement 0
the deaths, founded upon the burials eact
day, beginning with June 7 and endiD!
with July /, which we here append, cor
rected to the 10th of July, at which tint
our daily mortuary reports were discOntin
ued:
DATE. WHITES. CoLoRED. TOTAL